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Mary Custis Lee (July 12, 1835 – November 22, 1918) was an American heiress and the eldest daughter of Confederate States Army General Robert E. Lee and Mary Anna Custis Lee. Throughout the American Civil War and Reconstruction era, she remained distant from her family. Spending much of her time traveling, she did not attend the funerals for ...
Mary Anna Randolph Custis Lee (October 1, 1807 – November 5, 1873) was the wife of the Confederate general Robert E. Lee and the last private owner of Arlington Estate. She was the daughter of George Washington Parke Custis who was the grandson of Martha Washington , the wife of George Washington .
Mary Anna may refer to: Mary Anna Custis Lee (1807–1873), American wife of Robert E. Lee, slave owner, and socialite; Mary Anna Day (1852–1924), American botanist and librarian; Mary Anna Draper (1839–1914), American astronomical photographer and researcher; Mary Anna Henry (1834–1903), American diarist
Custis stipulated that whomever owned his beloved Arlington must be named Custis. Therefore, Arlington would go to his daughter and then to his grandson, Custis Lee. Mary Anna Custis married her distant cousin, United States Army Lieutenant Robert E. Lee in June 1831. With the outbreak of the U.S. Civil War on April 12, 1861, Robert E. Lee ...
Two of Lee's daughters, Mary Custis Lee and Mildred Childe Lee, attended the dedication. [22] One group of U.S. army veterans in Illinois passed a resolution entitled "treason must be made odious" that protested "the display of rebel flags at the Lee monument dedication to the exclusion of the flag of our country." [23] Unveiling of the ...
Robert Edward Lee Jr. (October 27, 1843 – October 19, 1914) was the sixth of seven children of Confederate General Robert E. Lee and Mary Anna Randolph Custis. He became a soldier during the American Civil War , and later was a planter , businessman, and author.
Mary Custis Lee (1808–1873), Mariah's half-sister. The family became part of the free people of color in Washington, D.C., before the Civil War. Maria (Mariah) Carter was born into slavery, the mixed-race daughter of planter George Washington Parke Custis (1781–1857), the only grandson of Martha Washington through her first marriage. [2]
Mary Anna Custis Lee During the American Civil War , Mary Anna Custis Lee , the wife of Confederate General Robert E. Lee , stayed at Bremo as a guest of the Cocke family. Though it was 80 miles (130 km) away from her home in Richmond, Virginia , the James River and Kanawha Canal permitted a relatively comfortable trip by boat.