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Martha Parke Custis (1756 – June 19, 1773) was the stepdaughter of George Washington who died from an epileptic seizure at the age of 17, fifteen years before he was elected as the first president of the United States.
- Patsy Custis
- June 19, 1773 (aged 17), Mount Vernon, Fairfax County, Virginia, British America
- 1756, White House Plantation, New Kent County, Virginia, British America
- Mount Vernon, Fairfax County, Virginia, U.S.
Martha Custis Castania Peter (October 5, 1808 – April 5, 1809), died in infancy Britannia Wellington Peter Kennon (January 28, 1815 – January 27, 1911), married Beverley Kennon (1793–1844) [10] [8]
- July 1854 (aged 76–77)
- 31 December 1777, Mount Vernon
- Thomas Peter
In 1754, Daniel died, probably of malaria; Frances died in 1757. Yet in the meantime, Martha Custis had given birth to two more children who would become the center of her own life: John Parke Custis (called “Jacky”), who was born in 1754, and Martha Parke Custis (called “Patsy”), born in 1756.
Thomas Peter died at Tudor Place in April 1834 at the age of sixty-five; he was buried at the family cemetery located on the Montgomery County, Maryland, estate of his son John Parke Custis Peter, formerly part of his parents Oakland farm.
Just a few years later, Martha Washington passed away at Mount Vernon. As a Custis heir, Martha Peter inherited a portion of the enslaved people belonging to the Custis estate.
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Just a few months after their daughter Frances had died, Daniel Parke Custis suddenly became ill. Although Martha summoned the best physicians money could buy, her husband died on July 8, 1757. By all accounts, their seven-year marriage had been a happy one.
But Patcy Custis suffered from what is believed to have been epilepsy, and by 1768 the illness began to manifest itself more severely. 2 In June 1773, when she was seventeen, she died of a seizure.
