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UI\L I U11 U! MILIFflMILYr Descended From Old Virginiian Ancestry.*EXTINCT IN ALLEGANY CO.: | Numerous in Garrett—-Not a Warlike Race—Amiable, Peaceful and Mc.tHighly Respectable—The Hero of the Family a Great Soldier.mmmwmI have « number of time* recently{ been railed on for informal ion in ra yard fo th** Custer family, which ha.n I ( of late years become not only noted, I jbut hiMtorir on account o# tb • chi* f .of the* family, Gen, George A. Custer,11f •.lt; di i • 'ii ih*4 ■ •' hl cat 11 ry offie* *•In our civil tvar. lb* b'piijw! from Westjioltit fts a graduate with honors j f In IMfil, into the war in which ho wa.-j j« engaged for Its entire duration, Many j jylt;i vividly remember hi* traffic deathlyin ISTd nt the Little Big Horn, by Hit-'fting Bull and hi* savage warriors. Hi* * y career though not lengthv was brllli-.*tlt;ant, patriotic and national, worthy of •, proud recollections and national gratl-jf Itnlt a* well a* a prominent place in the history of our nation. ftA number of Inaccuracies have ap- *j pcarcd in th general scope of the p puhlication*. Perhaps the author of p this paper ha* more personal knowl-: p edge of the Custer family at large than f.anyone else living. A sketch of the t pCusft r family is to b found In Brown » ; f MhtceUancou* Writing*/* This sketch j -j* was written in I$d7. and the fact* mainly gotten from Rmanc*! Custer,; k father of Gen. Custer, Vhen on hi* Inst ^ %issit to his old home country, j aTh'* Custer race hails from Old Vlr t, glnia. Two brothers, John and Ero*, w anuel, left their homes in the valley ,,, something over 1«o* year* ago. Johnsettled at Cwwaptown In this county.He was a black- mb h add hotel keeper r(by vocations. HI* wife was a Garlltx, wsister of old Christian Gartuz the not -' alt;ed old lime hunter of Allegany county. The old time Oarltt* also came ont Virginia with It* ways and style rj of language. John Custer had a fam ?IIv of children, most of whom went to what I* how West Virginia. He djjud , |kM|M()at mysteriously in 1R10, H1son, Emanuel, loft home when t*) wyearn of age and .went to II*rri.* on al * ouuty, Ohio, with all hi* lednngiag* nt bournt up Sti u bandana handkerchief. 0*lie. like his father, was a black am ith,' of stid follow lt;lt;l his trade for many years, w. I,**ft hi* countv ;tnd w nt to Wood to county in the same state, and from Hlt; them* to Monroe, Michiga. . wh re hi* pr lived for the rest of hi* life, and died sa a t umber of years ago. It** was mar- wl rb d twice, both time* to Ohio ladle*, ki The General was a ton of the second It*wife.it is not remembered how many child *zlt;ren Mary Custer had, hut at least an so ordinary-sized family. Two sntu, a| son-in-law. and a grandson, all were! slaughtered at the great massacre at : the Little Big Horn. Among the slain J« t :tje. Georg*- Yates, u | omi ins Aofficer of the I*. S. Army. Hi* wife! was a sister of Mr. Mltnor Roberta, of mthis city, he being connected with the,! mu
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Cumberland Evening Times
Cumberland, Maryland, US
Sat, Jul 08, 1905
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