The Washington Family
George Washington Parke Custis, 30 Apr 1781 - 10 Oct 1857George Washington, 22 Feb 1732 - 14 Dec 1799Eleanor Parke Custis Lewis, 31 Mar 1779 - 15 Jul 1852Christopher Sheels, 1776 - after 1802Martha Dandridge Custis Washington, 2 Jun 1731 - 22 May 1802Edward Savage, 26 Nov 1761 - 6 Jul 1817David EdwinWilliamLee, c. 1750 - c. 1828
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After the presidency, George and Martha Washington returned to Mount Vernon to raise their two grandchildren, George Washington “Wash” Parke Custis (far left) and Eleanor “Nelly” Custis (center). As an adult, Wash Custis fathered a daughter named Maria with an enslaved house servant, Arianna Carter. In 1825, he freed Maria, providing her with land from his Virginia estate, which was called Arlington. Wash’s other surviving daughter, Mary Anna Randolph Custis, went on to marry Robert E. Lee and occupied the nearby mansion house on the property that is now known as Arlington National Cemetery.