Callahan, Charles Hilliard, 1858-1944 · Washington : National Capital Press · leaf 337
ention to strangers, which rendershospitality so charming. The death of her only remaining child, John Custis, was a severeblow to this devoted parent. Stricken with camp fever during thebattle of Yorktown and while serving as an aide to General Washing-ton, he was removed to Eltham, the residence… … MARTHA WASHINGTON AND HER CHILDREN. 217 sister, in New Kent County, where he died, after a short illness, onthe 5th of November at the age of only twenty-seven. Young Custis, happily married, had given proof of intrinsicworth. As a member of the Virginia Legislature, to which he hadbeen elected, he…
