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George Washington Custis Lee (September 16, 1832 – February 18, 1913), also known as Custis Lee, was the eldest son of Robert E. Lee and Mary Anna Custis Lee. His grandfather George Washington Custis was the step-grandson and adopted son of George Washington and grandson of Martha Custis Washington. He served as a Confederate general in the ...
When Mary Anna Randolph Custis was born on 1 October 1807, in Arlington, Virginia, United States, her father, George Washington Parke Custis, was 26 and her mother, Mary Lee Fitzhugh, was 19. She married Robert Edward Lee Sr. on 30 June 1831, in Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 4 daughters.
On July 7, 1804, Custis married Mary Lee "Molly" Fitzhugh, a devout evangelical Christian from a prominent Virginia family with close ties to the Washingtons and Lees. She came to Arlington at the age of sixteen and gave birth to four children with only one, Mary Anna Randolph Custis, living to adulthood.
Contents 1Life 2Marriage and family 2.1Ancestry 3Cultural references 4References 5External links Wife of Robert E. Lee (1807–1873)Mary Anna Custis LeeBornMary Anna Randolph Custis(1807-10-01)October 1, 1807Annefield in Boyce, Virginia, U.S.DiedNovember 5, 1873(1873-11-05) (aged 66)Lexington, Virginia, U.S.Resting placeUniversity Chap...
Mary Anna Custis Lee. Mary Anna Custis Lee, född 1 oktober 1807 på en plantage i nordvästra Virginia, död 5 november 1873 i Lexington, Virginia var konstnär, författare och hustru till Robert E. Lee, amerikansk militär och konfederationens överbefälhavare under det amerikanska inbördeskriget .
7 de sept. de 2018 · Mary Custis Lee “I would not stir from this house even if the whole Northern Army were to surround it,” wrote Mary Anna Randolph Custis Lee, wife of Robert E. Lee, to her daughter, Eleanor Agnes Lee on May 5, 1861. The Civil War was still in its infancy when Mary Lee wrote this letter, having begun a month earlier on April 12, 1861.
Mary Anna Randolph Custis holds a parrot in this 1830 oil portrait by Auguste Hervieu. The painting was done shortly before her marriage to her distant cousin and childhood playmate Robert E. Lee. Never was I more surrounded with the joys of life than at this time, Custis wrote to a friend.
