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Following the death of Eleanor Calvert in 1811, the John Parke Custis estate was liquidated, and Nelly Lewis inherited approximately forty additional slaves. [4] In about 1830, the Lewises moved to Audley plantation in Clarke County, Virginia. Beginning in the mid-1830s, they began dividing their time between Virginia and their daughters' homes ...
While at Mount Vernon with his brother, Lewis came to know Eleanor "Nelly" Parke Custis, a granddaughter of Martha Dandridge Custis Washington and Daniel Parke Custis. She and her brother, George Washington Parke Custis, had been informally adopted by George and Martha Washington after the 1781 death of their father, John Parke Custis. At Mount ...
John Parke Custis Nickname: Jacky: November 27, 1754 – November 5, 1781 Eleanor Calvert: Stepson; father was Daniel Parke Custis. Father of: Unnamed Daughter Parke Custis (1775-1775) Elizabeth Parke Custis Law (1776–1831) Martha Parke Custis Peter (1777–1854) Eleanor Parke Custis Lewis (1779–1852) Unnamed Twin Daughter Custis (1780-1780)
John Parke Custis, his sister Martha Parke Custis, his son George (named after George Washington, the step-father of John). and his daughter Eleanor Parke Custis (later Lewis) grew up at Mount Vernon, the home of Martha and George Washington. George Washington Parke Custis built Arlington House as a memorial to George Washington.
Lewis's paternal grandparents were Lawrence Lewis, a nephew of George Washington, and Eleanor Parke Custis Lewis, a granddaughter of Martha Washington. [2] His maternal grandparents were Dr. John Redman Coxe, a Philadelphia physician who was a pioneer in vaccination, and Sarah Cox, whose sister Rachel Cox married the inventor John Stevens .
With Custis's premature death at 26, his widow sent her two youngest children (Eleanor/Nelly and George/Washy) to Mount Vernon to be raised by the Washingtons. [3] In 1783, she married David Stuart of Alexandria, Virginia, with whom she had at least seven additional children who survived infancy. [1] [19] [20]
Martha Parke "Patsy" Custis was born in 1756 at White House Plantation in Virginia. She was the fourth child of Martha Washington (née Dandridge) and Colonel Daniel Parke Custis . [ 2 ] [ 6 ] Her eldest brother Daniel Jr. had died at the age of three, before she was born, while her sister Frances died in 1757 at the age of four; both had died ...
Pages in category "Children of presidents of the United States" The following 87 pages are in this category, out of 87 total. ... Eleanor Parke Custis Lewis; Edward ...