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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 ...
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.
The Custis family of Virginia was an eastern Virginia family influential in politics and civic life during the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. Subcategories This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total.
Mildred Childe Lee (February 10, 1846 – March 27, 1905) was an American society hostess and the youngest child of Robert E. Lee and Mary Anna Custis Lee.She was the last member of the Lee family to be born at Arlington Plantation and had a privileged upbringing typical of members of the planter class, attending boarding schools in Winchester, Virginia, and Raleigh, North Carolina.
When Lee and his wife fled Arlington House, Gray was given the keys to the mansion and responsibility for the main house. [1] The house had heirlooms from George Washington —china, furniture, and art work—because Mary Anna Custis Lee was the great-granddaughter of Martha Washington . [ 1 ]