Mary Lee Fitzhugh Custis
BIRTH
1788/04/22
Stafford County, Virginia
DEATH
April 23, 1853
Arlington, Virginia
FAMILY
FATHER:
William Fitzhugh
(1741-1809)
MOTHER:
Anne Randolph
(1747-1805)
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Custis, Mary Lee Fitzhugh
(1788-1853)
Mary Lee Fitzhugh Custis was a Virginia heiress, philanthropist, and the wife of George Washington Parke Custis. As mistress of Arlington House, she promoted religious and charitable causes and became the mother of Mary Anna Custis Lee.
BIRTHPLACE:
MUSEUM
Chatham Manor
120 Chatham Lane, Fredericksburg, VA
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BROTHER
George Washington Parke Custis
(1781-1857)
SISTER
Mary Anna Custis Lee
(1807-1873)
SISTER
Eleanor Agnes Lee
(1841-1873)
BROTHER
William Henry Fitzhugh
(1792-1830)
BROTHER
George Washington Custis Lee
(1832-1913)
SISTER
Mildred Childe Lee
(1846-1905)
BROTHER
Robert E. Lee
(1807-1870)
SISTER
Anne Carter Lee
(1839-1862)
HUSBAND
George Washington Parke Custis
(1781-1857)
William Fitzhugh
(1741-1809)
Mary Anna Custis Lee
(1807-1873)
Places | Image | Address | GPS | Site |
|---|---|---|---|---|
George Washington's Mount Vernon | 3200 Mount Vernon Memorial Hwy, Mt Vernon, VA 22121 | MUSEUM |
DIED:
Arlington, Virginia
Apr 23, 1853
Mary Lee Fitzhugh Custis was born on Apr 22, 1788 in Stafford County, Virginia. The surviving biographical summary provides only limited evidence about childhood, schooling, and the daily circumstances of the household, so those details are not reconstructed here without documentation. What can be stated securely is that this person belonged to the interconnected family world from which HistoryGPS traces participants, relatives, and later descendants of the Revolutionary generation.
The available biographical record identifies Mary Lee Fitzhugh Custis with work or public activity as a hostess. Those roles provide the clearest documented basis for including this person in the database and should be read in the political, military, professional, or household context of the period. Mary Lee Fitzhugh Custis died on Apr 23, 1853 in Arlington, Virginia. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.