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Title: Some old historic landmarks of Virginia and Maryland, described in a hand-book for the tourist over the Washington, Alexandria and Mount Vernon electric railway
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Snowden, William H. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Washington, Alexandria and Mount Vernon electric railway. (from old catalog)
Publisher: Alexandria, Va., Printed by G. H. Ramey & son
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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r gently closed hand. Her sweet face, regular in every feature, is garnishedby her dark curls, tastefully clustering around her forehead and temples, while her longhair, gathered in an apparently careless manner on the top ot her head, is secured bya cluster of white flowers. The whole picture is modest, simple, beautiful. Nellie Custis, as she was called in her maidenhood, was as witty as she was beauti-ful ; (juick at repartee, highly accomplished, full of information, a good conversation-alist, the life of any company whether young or old, and was greatly beloved by herfoster-father, the great patriot. When in June, 1775, Washington was appointed Com-mander-in-Chief of the Continental Army, he placed John Parke Custis, the father of•Nelly, on his staff, in which capacity he served during most of the long war thatfollowed. He was aide to Washington at the siege ofYorktown in the autumn of 1781,and was then a member of the Virginia Assembly, but dying that year of fever, his ^&
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■ t . —ir, .. J WOODLAWN, THE SOME OF NELLIE CUSTIS LEWIS. children, C.eorge W. Parke Custis and Eleanor Parke Custis, were left orphans, the for-mer only six months old and the latter nearly three years old, and became the adoptedchildren of Washington, and the fondly cared for inmates of the home at Mount Ver-non. Here a private tutor of collegiate training was provided for them and under thewatchful and exemplary care of their distinguished guardians, their young minds weredeveloped for the practical duties of life. Nellie was born at Abingdon, the Custis homestead on the Potomac just above thefour mile run, March 21, 1778. Her mother was a descendant of Cecil Calvert, LordPaltimore, through her grandfather Benedict Calvert of Mount Airy, Maryland. Apaternal ancestor John Parke was at one time a member of the English Parliament andafterwards a soldier in Queen Annes army in Holland and became an aide de camp ofthe renowned Marlborough at the battle of Blenheim in Germany, fough

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