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 ...

From George Washington to Robert E. Lee, Arlington's history is as complicated as our own. Here's how it became the hallowed ...

In 1931, Custis' daughter Mary married Robert E. Lee, then a first ... Cemetery was not a soldier, a general, a war hero or even a veteran. It was George Washington Parke Custis' cousin Mary ...

It was George Washington Parke Custis' cousin ... Charles During (Army), Lee Marvin (Marines), Audie Murphy (Army), Maureen O'Hara (whose husband was an Air Force general), and Arctic explorer ...

Spanning some 639 acres overlooking the Potomac River across from Washington ... the family of Confederate General Robert E. Lee; his wife, Mary Anna Randolph Custis, had inherited the property.

Spanning some 639 acres overlooking the Potomac River across from Washington, D.C., Arlington is the final resting place of more than 400,000 service men and women and their dependents.