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On May 22, 1802, the first of first ladies, Martha Dandridge Custis Washington died of a severe fever. When she married George Washington in January 1759, she was twenty-seven years old and a widowed ...

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The lap desk that Mike, from Birmingham, Alabama, brought to the ROADSHOW in Mobile in the summer of 2006 is a fantastic illustration of how the value of an elegant, if unremarkable, antique can ...

MEETING MARTHA WASHINGTON: Pictured left to right are Thomasville Chapter DAR Vice Regent Michelle Kimbler, Carol Russell dressed as Martha Washington and Chapter Regent Shelba Sellers. Russell ...

click image for close-up George Washington and Martha Dandridge Custis were wed in January of 1759. Both were twenty-seven years old, and they had spent a total of fewer than three weeks together.

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The General Robert Edward Lee Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy had its February meeting at the home of President Mary Duffe of Edmond. Special guest, Division President Mary Dixon, ...

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