Everything about Mary Lee Fitzhugh Custis totally explained
Mary Lee Fitzhugh Custis (
April 22,
1788-
April 23,
1853) was an Episcopal lay leader in Alexandria County (now
Arlington County, Virginia, USA). The daughter of Ann Randolph Fitzhugh and
William Fitzhugh (1741-1809), a member of the Continental Congress, she was most likely born at
Chatham, in
Stafford County, Virginia. On
July 7,
1804, she married
George Washington Parke Custis, an orator, playwright, and writer. They lived at
Arlington, an 1,100-acre plantation in Alexandria County, Virginia. Of their four daughters, only
Mary Anna Randolph Custis, who later married
Robert Edward Lee, survived childhood.
Custis was a member of a family network in northern Virginia that helped revive the state's Episcopal Church in the first part of the nineteenth century. She particularly influenced her cousin Bishop
William Meade. Custis promoted Sunday schools and supported the work of the
American Colonization Society.
She died at Arlington on April 23, 1853, and was buried on the estate.
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