Custis, Mary Lee Fitzhugh, 1788-1853
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Mary Lee Fitzhugh Custis (April 22, 1788 – April 23, 1853) was the mother of Mary Anna Randolph Custis, the wife of Robert E. Lee. Early in the 1820s Custis helped form a coalition of women who hoped to eradicate slavery. In 1804, she married George Washington Parke Custis, grandson of Martha Custis Washington. The Custises lived at Arlington House.
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| associatedWith | Arlington House, The Robert E. Lee Memorial (Va.) | corporateBody |
| memberOf | Custis (Family : Virginia) | family |
| spouseOf | Custis, George Washington Parke, 1781-1857 | person |
| memberOf | Custis-Lee-Mason families. | person |
| associatedWith | Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, marquis de, 1757-1834. | person |
| associatedWith | Lee family. | family |
| associatedWith | Lee, George Bolling, 1872-1948, | person |
| associatedWith | Lee, Mary Custis, 1835-1918. | person |
| parent-in-law of | Lee, Robert Edward, 1807-1870 | person |
| associatedWith | Meade, William, 1789-1862. | person |
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| Virginia | VA | US | |
| Stafford County | VA | US | |
| Arlington | VA | US |
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Birth 1788-04-22
Death 1853-04-23
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