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During this interview, Mary Custis Lee, the wife of Confederate General Robert E. Lee, talks about her family home Mount Vernon. General Lee even joins the ...
- 9 min
- 1988
- Teaching the Civil War
Mary Custis Lee, the Lee’s eldest daughter, was born on July 12, 1835, at Arlington House. At the time of her birth, Andrew Jackson was president and the nation’s flag had 24 stars to represent a largely rural population of fewer than 20 million. When she died 83 years later, that flag would have 48 stars, and there would be over 100 ...
Mary Custis Lee Mary Custis Lee, 1854. Mary Anna Randolph Custis Lee (* 1.Oktober 1808; † 5. November 1873) war die Ehefrau von Robert E. Lee, dem Oberbefehlshaber der Nord-Virginia-Armee und des konföderierten Heeres sowie späteren Präsidenten des Washington College in Lexington
797: Mary Anna Randolph Custis Lee. Her Connections Are a Whose Who of American Genealogy. Born: 1 October 1807 (or 1808, sources differ), Annfield, Virginia, United States of America. Died: 5 November 1873, Alexandria, Virginia, United States of America
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...
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.
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.
