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From: "Pat Thompson" <>
Subject: Re: [MDGARRET] Custer-Durst-Garlitz info.
Date: Sat, 9 Sep 2006 09:43:40 -0400
In-Reply-To: <588.444441d.32341858@aol.com>

This is not my direct line but according to Franklin Bishop in his book "The
Custer and Related Families of Allegany and Garrett Counties, Maryland" pg.
10
John Custer 1782-PA - 1830 Cresaptown MD, married Catherine Valentine (not
other marriage listed) and they are the parents of Emanuel Henry 1806
MD-1892MI. Emanuel Henry and his second wife, Maria Ward Kirkpatrick, are
the parents of George Armstrong Custer 1839 OH - 1876 Montana. Emanuel Henry
Custer's 1st wife was Matilda P. Viers (according to Bishop).



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Wasn't the John Custer, who died in 1830, Cresaptown, Md., recorded with a

wife named Catherine Valentine? I am mixed up on this data since I have
read
several versions. One record says he was married to a Garlitz daughter. If
I
understand this correctly it means that John Custer & __ Garlitz were the
parents of Emanuel Custer, born 1806, and he ( Emanuel) was the father of
Gen.George A. Custer so the Garlitz daughter (name not given) would have
been
Gen.George A. Custer's grandmother and thus Garret Co., Md. has a big
connection with the famous man. But I also have read Brown's Misc.
Writings, pg.196,
that states that Elizabeth Durst, daughter of Casper Durst, married to
Christian Garlitz and that one of these sisters married John Custer of
Cresaptown,
Md. who was the grandfather Gen.George A. Custer. Now Elizabeth had only
one
sister, Susanna, both girls were baptized on the same day in 1789 in
Somerset Co., Pa. I do not have info. on Susanna and what happened to her.
I have no
death date for the wife of John Custer , who died 1830, Md. and some
records
say that Catherine Valentine died in 1877, that is 47 years after him.
Did John Custer married first to a Durst or Garlitz girl and then second
to a
much younger Valentine girl? Jacob Brown visited with Emanuel Custer, the
father of Gen.Custer, after the terrible deaths in Emanuel's family so I
think
Brown would have had first hand information on this family. Now the Emanuel

Custer (brother to John) who was born in 1779, died 1829 Allegany Co., Md.
and had several children married to Durst children. That is my interest in
the
Custer family, they are not a direct line for me but I am curious about the

different wives given to John Custer, mentioned above. I do not have a
Custer
Book that has been previously mentioned.



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