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Elizabeth Calvert. Eleanor Calvert Custis Stuart (1753 – September 28, 1811), born Eleanor Calvert, was a prominent member of the wealthy Calvert family of Maryland. Upon her marriage to John Parke Custis, she became the daughter-in-law of Martha Dandridge Custis Washington and the step-daughter-in-law of George Washington.
When Jacky Custis reached maturity, he married Eleanor Calvert, with whom he had four children. He died in 1781 and his wife remarried the Alexandria physician David Stuart in 1783. The Washingtons adopted Jacky's two youngest children, Eleanor "Nelly" Parke Custis and George Washington Parke Custis .
In February 1774, Jacky married Eleanor Calvert, the descendant of Maryland’s founder. Over the next seven years, the couple would have seven children, but only four would survive past infancy.
Created: 1782 painting; 2009 photograph. Medium: Miniature painting. Eleanor Calvert Custis. Twenty-four-year-old Eleanor Calvert Custis—the widow of John Parke Custis and the mother of four young children—is the subject of this 1782 miniature portrait.
Nelly was one of four children of John Parke Custis and his wife Eleanor Calvert, daughter of Benedict Calvert, the illegitimate son of the fifth Lord Baltimore. After John Parke Custis' death in 1781, his widow was remarried, to Dr. David Stuart, and took her two older children with her to Fairfax, VA.
Eleanor Calvert was the daughter of Benedict Calvert and grand-daughter of Charles Fifth Lord Baltimore. All her life was spent within, or immediately adjacent to, that part of Maryland which became the Dis-trict of Columbia in her life time. Her family divided the year between Mount Airy and Annapolis and Eleanor grew up a handsome, sensitive
Eleanor Calvert Stuart was of the Calvert family of Prince George's County, MD, and was the widow of John Parke Custis, George Washington's stepson. Eleanor had four sisters, Ann, Sarah, Ariana, and Rosalie, two brothers, William and Charles, and was the step-sister of Elizabeth, Martha, Eleanor, and George Washington Parke Custis, the grandchildren of George and Martha Washington.
