George Washington asked Rev. Massey to read the burial service for his stepdaughter Martha “Patsy” Custis when she died suddenly in 1773. The Rev. Lee Massey, along with George Washington ...

On Abingdon’s enslaved people, he noted, “The Black population always outnumbered the White population,” citing as examples, the Lee and ... and George Washington Parke Custis.

Arlington National Cemetery wasn’t always a cemetery at all. The land once belonged to the family of Confederate General ...