This article is about the daughter of Robert E. Lee. For her mother, see Mary Anna Custis Lee.
Mary Custis Lee
Lee in 1914
Born
(1835-07-12)July 12, 1835
Arlington Plantation, Arlington County, Virginia, U.S.
Died
November 22, 1918(1918-11-22) (aged 83)
Hot Springs, Virginia, U.S.
Resting place
University Chapel
Parents
Robert E. Lee
Mary Anna Custis Lee
Relatives
Lee family
Mary Custis Lee (July 12, 1835 – November 22, 1918) was an American heiress and the eldest daughter of Confederate States Army General Robert E. Lee and Mary Anna Custis Lee. Throughout the American Civil War and Reconstruction era, she remained distant from her family. Spending much of her time traveling, she did not attend the funerals for her sisters nor those for her parents. Somewhat eccentric, she used her inheritance from the sale of Arlington House to fund trips abroad. She spent time in the United Kingdom, Italy, France, Russia, Monaco, Ottoman Empire, Ceylon, the Dutch East Indies, Palestine, Egypt, Sudan, Australia, China, India, Japan, Mexico, and Venezuela. During her travels, she used her social status as the daughter of Robert E. Lee to obtain audiences with foreign royalty, nobility, and political leaders including Queen Victoria, Pope Leo XIII, and an Indian maharaja.
In 1902, while in Alexandria, Virginia, she was arrested for refusing to sit in the whites-only section of a segregated streetcar, opting instead to sit with her black maid. Her arrest was controversial, and used by some as a symbol for desegregation, although historians debate what her intentions were for refusing to change seats. Afterward, she left for France, where she lived until the outbreak of World War I.
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the family estates to Custis, which included two plantations and numerous slaves. His wife died two years later, and in 1717, Custis moved to Williamsburg...
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was raised by his sister Martha Custis Williams. A cousin of MaryLee, the wife of Confederate General Robert E. Lee, Orton spent many days of his youth...
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