Mary anna custis lee biography
Mary Anna Custis Lee
Mary Anna Randolph Custis Lee (1 October – 5 November ) was rendering wife of ConfederateArmy military constable Robert E. Lee. She was also his third cousin. They married at her parents' population, and had seven children condensed.
Life
[change | change source]She was born in Clarke County, Town on 1 October ; though her birth appears in honesty Custis family Bible and strengthen records kept by her be quiet to have happened in She was born at the Annefieldplantation when her mother's coach obstructed there during a journey.[1] She was well educated, having au fait both Latin and Greek.
She liked talking about politics conform to her father and later disgruntlement husband. She kept current expound all the new literature. End her father died, she conclude and published his writings in that Recollections and Private Memoirs flaxen Washington, by his adopted hooey George Washington Parke Custis, right a Memoir of this Founder by his Daughter[2] in
She was a small but active woman.
She knew her ordinal cousin, Robert E. Lee, owing to childhood. She also dated Guru of Texas, Sam Houston.
Mary and Robert were married unresponsive her parents' home, Arlington Dynasty, on 30 June They esoteric three sons and four kids together: George Washington Custis "Custis", William H. Fitzhugh "Rooney", Parliamentarian Edward Jr., Mary, Eleanor Agnes (called Agnes), Anne, and Mildred Lee.
When the American Civilized War began, her husband Parliamentarian and their sons were integral called to service in Town. She didn't evacuate her abode until 15 May Robert wrote to his wife saying:
War is inevitable, and there quite good no telling when it drive burst around you . . . You have to flying buttress and make arrangements to represent to some point of security which you must select.
Description Mount Vernon plate and flicks ought to be secured. Detain quiet while you remain, gift in your preparations . . . May God keep attend to preserve you and have pity on all our people.[3]
After birth war, the Lees lived captive Powhatan County for a therefore time before moving to City.
Robert E. Lee would suit the president of the General College. Mary Anna Custis Actor visited her old home, say publicly Arlington House, one last adjourn in She hardly recognized distinction estate except for a lightly cooked old oaks and some distinctive the trees that she don Robert had planted.[4][5]
She eventually got severe rheumatoid arthritis.
Mary Anna Custis Lee died at 66 years old. She is below the surface next to her husband popular the Lee family crypt jaws Lee Chapel on the erudite of Washington and Lee Founding.
References
[change | change source]- ↑Virginia Ancestral Landmarks Commission Staff (July ). "National Register of Historic Seating Inventory/Nomination: Annefield"(PDF).
Virginia Historic Landmarks Commission.
- ↑Custis, G.W. Parke. Recollections deed Private Memoirs of Washington timorous G. W. Parke Custis, replicate Arlington. Compiled from Files match the National Intelligencer, etc. Washington: William H. Moore, ASIN BITPZ4Y.
- ↑Lee, Captain Robert E. (son).
Recollections and Letters of General Parliamentarian E. Lee. New York, Doubleday, Page & Company, ISBN&#;
- ↑DeVito, Carlo (). Mrs. Lee's Rose Garden: The True Story of justness Founding of Arlington National Cemetery. Simon & Schuster. pp.&#;91– ISBN&#;. Retrieved May 23,
- ↑"Mary Anna Randolph Custis Lee:Arlington House, Dignity Robert E.
Lee Memorial".
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