List of Famous people with last name Custis

John Parke Custis was an American planter and the son of Martha Washington and stepson of George Washington.

George Washington Parke Custis was an American plantation owner, antiquarian, author, and playwright. His father John Parke Custis was the step-son of George Washington. He and his sister Eleanor grew up at Mount Vernon and in the Washington presidential household.

Daniel Parke Custis was an American planter and politician who was the first husband of Martha Dandridge. After his death, Dandridge married George Washington, one of the Founding Fathers of the United States and the nation's first president.

Mary Lee "Molly" Fitzhugh Custis was an Episcopal lay leader in Alexandria County. She was the mother of Mary Anna Randolph Custis who was the wife of Robert E. Lee. Early in the 1820s, Molly Custis helped form a coalition of women who hoped to eradicate slavery.

Martha "Patsy" Parke Custis 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 in 1788. She was the youngest child of Martha Custis, who later became known as Martha Washington, and Daniel Parke Custis, who died one year after she was born. Analysis of George Washington's diary entries describing Patsy Custis's seizures and the treatments she received have led modern medical historians to conclude that the cause of death was SUDEP, or sudden unexpected death in epilepsy. Her death is considered one of the first well-documented descriptions in history of SUDEP by a witness, who happened to be George Washington.