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Elizabeth Bacon Custer (née Bacon; April 8, 1842 – April 4, 1933) was an American author and public speaker who was the wife of Brevet Major General George Armstrong Custer, United States Army.
Nov 21, 2019 · When she died in her Park Avenue apartment in New York on April 4, 1933, just four days shy of her 91st birthday, Elizabeth Bacon Custer left an estate valued at more than $100,000. She was buried beside her husband at West Point.
- Frosty Graves
- Judge’S Daughter
- Monroe in Mourning
- “All My Boys Gone”
- Retrieving Remains
- Dark Declaration
- Financial Difficulties
- A Grudge Against Grant
- The Beginning of Closure
- Author and Speaker
Gravediggers had managedto break through the frosty crust and down into the sandy soil to a standard depth. The open graves were waiting when two horse-drawn hearses arrived with the caskets for the short graveside service that brought closure to Boston’s parents Emanuel and Maria Custer, their daughter Margaret (“Maggie”) and surviving son, Nevin....
Elizabeth Clift “Libbie” Bacon, born in Monroe in 1842, was the daughter of well-respected Judge Daniel Bacon. When George, home on leave in 1862 during the Civil War, was formally introduced to and expressed an interest in Libbie, her father frowned on any relationship, as Emanuel was a mere farmer/blacksmith. As George advanced in rank, Judge Bac...
Around daybreakon July 6 at Fort Abraham Lincoln, Dakota Territory, officers formally conveyed the deaths of Lt. Col. George Custer, brother Captain Thomas Custer, brother-in-law 1st Lt. James Calhoun (who had married Maggie Custer in 1871), youngest brother, Boston Custer, and favorite nephew Autie Reed to widows Libbie and Maggie and Reed’s unmar...
Compounding Libbie’s sadnesswas a letter received several days later from family friend Florence Boyd in Monroe that described Father Custer as being “in tears most of the time,” and Mother Custer, who was already frail and in poor health, repeatedly crying, “How can I bear it—all my boys gone?” Soon thereafter Libbie, Maggie, the unmarried Emma Re...
These and other eulogiescomforted the family, including the recently returned Libbie, Maggie and Emma Reed. They had reached Monroe about a week earlier by special railcar via the Northern Pacific, Chicago & North Western and, finally, Michigan Central. In July 1877 a military party returned to the battlefield to rebury the enlisted men and retriev...
Post chaplain the Rev. John Woartofficiated at the Episcopal Protestant service, which culminated as pallbearers placed the caskets on five artillery caissons for the procession to the cemetery. Fred Calhoun, who had been at Camp Robinson three months earlier when Crazy Horse surrendered, had declared at the time, “The massacre of the entire Indian...
On arriving homeby train in August 1876 Libbie was overcome with emotion when greeted by friends and collapsed. Maggie continued to suffer emotionally. Letters from relatives and friends expressed comfort and sympathy, but their words failed to assuage the family’s intense pain and sorrow. How could they? Unlike present-day reporters, the media res...
It was Grantwho in April 1876 had detained Custer in Washington after the colonel testified before Congress regarding trader post kickbacks tied to Secretary of War William W. Belknap, a personal friend of the president. Belknap had resigned while under investigation and was later impeached. An infuriated Grant had refused to meet with Custer and e...
Closure for Libbiebegan the morning of Oct. 10 when her husband’s remains—which since early August had been stored in a receiving vault in Poughkeepsie, N.Y.—were placed aboard the steamer Mary Powell and transported up the Hudson River to West Point. Thousands of people lined the riverbanks, and passing ships lowered their flags to half-mast. Once...
By the end of 1882Congress had increased her government pension to $50 per month. Soon thereafter Libbie left her position with the Society of Decorative Arts and began a life of self-reliance, continuing to defend her famous husband’s reputation, enhance his image and refute his critics. She gave lectures and wrote three books—”Boots and Saddles” ...
Jan 14, 2020 · Elizabeth Bacon Custer outlived her husband, Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer, by 57 years. In the nearly six decades between the annihilation of her husband and five companies of the 7th Cavalry on the Little Big Horn River in Montana and her own death, Libbie wrote three memoirs.
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Dec 1, 1994 · Elizabeth Bacon Custer, the only surviving child of Judge Daniel and Eleanor Sophia (Page) Bacon, was born at Monroe, Michigan, on April 8, 1842. At twenty Libbie, as she was called, graduated as valedictorian from the Young Ladies' Seminary and Collegiate Institute in Monroe.
Oct 3, 2017 · The one individual who is responsible for establishing a positive image for George Armstrong Custer was this lady, Elizabeth Bacon Custer. Born in Monroe, Michigan on April 8, 1842, Elizabeth was married to one of the most colorful military leaders in American history.
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Feb 1, 2016 · Elizabeth Bacon Custer was born in Monroe, Michigan in 1842. She faced tragedy early on, losing three siblings before age eight and her mother at 12. But “Libbie” had an adaptable and resilient nature, which would prove advantageous while marching with her husband’s troops years later.
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