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Custis Family Residences
Custis is a surname which may refer to: People related to George Washington *Daniel Parke Custis (1711–1757), son of John Custis and first husband of Martha Washington *Eleanor Parke Custis Lewis (1779–1854), step-granddaughter of George Washington *George Washington Parke Custis (1781–1857), son of John Parke Custis and adopted son of George Washington * Hancock Custis, a member of the Virginia House of Burgesses (1710–1712), brother of John Custis *John Custis (1678–1749), member of the Virginia governor's Council and father of Daniel Parke Custis *John Parke Custis (1754–1781), son of Daniel Parke Custis and stepson of George Washington *Martha Washington (1731–1802), Martha Custis (as the widow of Daniel Custis) before she married George Washington * Mary Anna Custis, daughter of George Washington Parke Custis and wife of General Robert E. Lee * Mary Custis Vezey (1904-1994), poet and translator, related through her father, Henry Custis Vezey (1873–1939) *Mary Le ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daniel Parke Custis
Daniel Parke Custis (October 15, 1711 – July 8, 1757) was an American planter and politician who was the first husband of Martha Dandridge. After his death, Dandridge married George Washington, who later became the first president of the United States. Early life and career Custis was born in York County, Virginia, on October 15, 1711. He was one of two children of John Custis IV (1678–1749), a powerful member of Virginia's Governor's Council, and Frances Parke Custis. The Custis family was one of the wealthiest and most socially prominent of Virginia. Custis's mother, Frances, was the daughter of Daniel Parke, Jr., a political enemy of the Custises. As Daniel Custis was the sole male heir in the Custis family, he inherited the Southern plantations owned by his father. However, he did not choose to take a leading role in colonial Virginia politics. Marriage and children At the age of 37, Custis met 16-year-old Martha Dandridge at the St. Peter's Church where Martha atte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eleanor Parke Custis Lewis
Eleanor Parke Custis Lewis (March 31, 1779 – July 15, 1852), known as Nelly, was a granddaughter of Martha Washington and a step-granddaughter and adopted daughter of George Washington. Childhood Nelly was a daughter of John Parke Custis and Eleanor Calvert Custis. Her father was the only surviving son of Daniel Parke Custis and his widow, Martha Dandridge Custis, who married George Washington in 1759. She was also the granddaughter of Benedict Swingate Calvert, an illegitimate son of Charles Calvert, 5th Baron Baltimore, whose mother may have been a granddaughter of George I. He was certainly descended from Charles II through the king's daughter by Barbara Villiers, Charlotte FitzRoy. Nelly was most likely born at Mount Airy, her maternal grandfather's estate in Prince George's County, Maryland, although local tradition holds that she was born at Abingdon, her father's estate in Arlington, Virginia (now the site of Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport). Following th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Washington Parke Custis
George Washington Parke Custis (April 30, 1781 – October 10, 1857) was an American plantation owner, antiquarian, author, and playwright. His father John Parke Custis was the stepson of George Washington. He and his sister Eleanor grew up at Mount Vernon and in the Washington presidential household. Upon reaching age 21, Custis inherited a large fortune from his late father, John Parke Custis, including a plantation in what became Arlington, Virginia. High atop a hill overlooking the Potomac River and Washington, D.C., Custis built the Greek Revival mansion Arlington House (1803–18), as a shrine to George Washington. There he preserved and displayed many of Washington's belongings. Custis also wrote historical plays about Virginia, delivered a number of patriotic addresses, and was the author of the posthumously published ''Recollections and Private Memoirs of George Washington'' (1860). His daughter, Mary Anna Randolph Custis, married Robert E. Lee. They inherited A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hancock Custis
Hancock Custis was a member of the Virginia House of Burgesses, the elected lower house of the colonial Virginia General Assembly from Accomack County, Virginia in 1710–1712. Family Hancock Custis was one of the younger sons of Colonel John Custis III and Margaret (Michael) Custis.Harrison, William Welsh'Harrison, Waples and allied families: being the Ancestry of George Leib Harrison of Philadelphia and of his wife Sarah Ann Waples' Philadelphia: Private printing by Edward Steen & Co., Inc., 1910. . Retrieved March 1, 2013. pp. 97–98. His elder brother John Custis IV also served in the House of Burgesses and the Virginia Governor's Council. Hancock Custis's brother, Major John Custis, was the father of Daniel Parke Custis, first husband of Martha Washington Martha Dandridge Custis Washington (June 21, 1731 — May 22, 1802) was the wife of George Washington, the first president of the United States. Although the title was not coined until after her death, Mart ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Custis
Colonel John Custis IV (August 1678 – November 22, 1749) was an American planter, politician, government official and military officer who sat in the House of Burgesses from 1705 to 1706 and 1718 to 1719, representing the electoral constituencies of Northampton County and the College of William & Mary. A prominent member of the Custis family of Virginia, he utilized his extensive landholdings to support a career in horticulture and gardening. Born in 1678 into a slaveholding family who resided in Northampton County, Virginia, Custis was sent to London at a young age to study the tobacco trade under Micajah Perry. He returned to his grandfather's plantation at Arlington in 1699 to familiarize himself in the management of slaves. In 1705, he was elected to the Virginia General Assembly, sitting there for a year. Custis married Frances Parke, the eldest daughter of Daniel Parke, in 1706. In 1714, his father John died, passing control of the family estates to Custis, which ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Parke Custis
John Parke Custis (November 27, 1754 – November 5, 1781) was an American planter. He was a son of Martha Washington and stepson of George Washington. Childhood A son of Daniel Parke Custis, a wealthy planter with nearly three hundred enslaved persons and thousands of acres of land, and Martha Dandridge Custis, he was most likely born at White House, his parents' plantation on the Pamunkey River in New Kent County, Virginia.John T. Kneebone et al., eds., ''Dictionary of Virginia Biography'' (Richmond: Library of Virginia, 1998– ), 3:639–640. Following his father's death in 1757, almost of land and about 285 enslaved persons were held in trust for him until he came of age. In January 1759, his mother married George Washington. The Washingtons raised him and his younger sister Martha (Patsy) Parke Custis (1756–1773) at Mount Vernon. Washington became his legal guardian and the administrator of the Custis Estate. Upon his sister's death in 1773 at the age of seventeen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martha Washington
Martha Dandridge Custis Washington (June 21, 1731 — May 22, 1802) was the wife of George Washington, the first president of the United States. Although the title was not coined until after her death, Martha Washington served as the inaugural first lady of the United States. During her lifetime, she was often referred to as "Lady Washington". Martha Dandridge first married Daniel Parke Custis. They had four children, two of whom survived to young adulthood. Daniel's death made Martha a widow at age 26. She brought her vast wealth to her marriage to Washington, which enabled him to buy land to add to his personal estate. She also brought with her 84 dower slaves from Daniel Custis' estate for use during her lifetime. They and their descendants reverted to Custis' estate at her death and were inherited by his heirs. The Washingtons did not have children together, but they did rear her two surviving children, John and Martha. They also helped both of their extended families. Fam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Anna Custis
Mary Anna Randolph Custis Lee (October 1, 1807 – November 5, 1873) was an American writer and the last private owner of Arlington Estate. She was the daughter of George Washington Parke Custis who was the grandson of Martha Dandridge Custis Washington who was the wife of George Washington. She married U.S. Army officer Robert E. Lee at her parents' home, Arlington House in 1831. They lived there with her parents while Lee served in the U.S. Army. They had seven children. She was at home when Lee was offered command of the U.S. Army as the U.S. Civil War began. Instead, he decided to serve Virginia and commanded the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia. He survived the war, became the president of Washington College, and died three years before she did. Biography Mary Anna Randolph Lee was descended from southern colonial families, including those of Parke Custis, Fitzhugh, Dandrige, Randolph, Rolfe, and Gerard. Through her paternal grandmother, Eleanor Calvert, she des ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Custis Vezey
Mary Custis Vezey (or Maria Genrikhovna Vezey in Russian; russian: Мария Генриховна Визи January 17, 1904October 18, 1994) was an American poet and translator who published in English and Russian, leaving "a fine heritage of published and unpublished works". Life Mary Custis Vezey was born on January 17, 1904, in New York to a Russian mother, Mariia Platonovna Travlinskaia (1874–1950), and an American father, Henry Custis Vezey (1873–1939). She grew up in Saint Petersburg, Russia, where the family moved when she was four weeks old, and Harbin, China, where her father was transferred in 1917 to work at the American Consulate. The family formed part of the Russian diaspora in China, where many Russians had fled following the 1917 revolution and civil war. From the early 1920s, Henry Custis Vezey edited and published an English-Russian newspaper in Harbin, the ''Russian Daily News,'' which was later renamed ''Harbin Daily News.'' Mary Vezey started to write ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Lee Fitzhugh Custis
Mary Lee "Molly" Fitzhugh Custis (April 22, 1788 – April 23, 1853) was an Episcopal lay leader in Alexandria County (now Arlington County, Virginia, United States). She was the mother of Mary Anna Randolph Custis who was the wife of Robert E. Lee. Early in the 1820s, Molly Custis helped form a coalition of women who hoped to eradicate slavery. Early life The daughter of William Fitzhugh (1741–1809) a member of the Continental Congress, and Ann Bolling Randolph Fitzhugh, Molly Custis was most likely born at Chatham Manor, in Stafford County, Virginia. Marriage and Family On July 7, 1804, she married George Washington Parke Custis, an orator, playwright, writer, and the grandson of Martha Custis Washington through her first marriage to Daniel Parke Custis. Molly Custis thus became George Washington's step-granddaughter-in-law. Molly's father William Fitzhugh and George Washington were long-time friends, with Washington mentioning in his diaries the hospitality of Moll ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ace Custis
Adrian "Ace" Custis (born May 24, 1974) is a American basketball coach and former professional basketball player. He last played in Japan with the Wakayama Trians and is now an NCAA Division I coach. After a severe knee injury while trying out for the Dallas Mavericks, Ace became known as one of the best power forwards throughout Asia playing in such countries as Lebanon, Japan, Qatar, Indonesia, Syria and the Philippines. Ace made a further name for himself in prestigious clubs such as Al Riyadi where he won a championship. Ace graduated from Virginia Tech and won the 1995 NIT championship. In 1997, Ace was an NCAA All-American. In 2007, Ace was inducted into the Virginia Tech Sports Hall of Fame; his #20 jersey was retired and hangs alongside the NBA shooting great Dell Curry. Techhoops, a basketball publication, named Ace Custis one of the 10 greatest players ever in Virginia Tech history. Custis was an assistant coach with the Maryland Eastern Shore Hawks men's basketball t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernie Custis
Bernard Eugene Custis (September 23, 1928 – February 23, 2017) was an American and Canadian football player who went on to a distinguished coaching career. He is known for having been the first black professional quarterback in the modern era and first in professional Canadian football, starting for the Hamilton Tiger-Cats in 1951. In 2019, Bernie Custis Secondary School officially opened in Hamilton, Ontario. The school is located adjacent to Tim Hortons Field (and formerly Ivor Wynne Stadium), home site of the Tiger-Cats and Bernie's first professional games. Early life Custis was born in Philadelphia in 1928, and graduated from John Bartram High School in Philadelphia in 1947. He excelled in track in high school. College playing career Custis was a star quarterback for the Syracuse Orange football in 1948, 1949 and 1950, setting numerous Syracuse records that would last for decades. Custis was recruited by Coach Reaves Baysinger, who was replaced by Ben Schwartzwa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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