Elizabeth Bacon Custer, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Elizabeth Bacon Custer

Wife of General Custer, journalist, memoirist

Date of Birth: 08-Apr-1842

Place of Birth: Monroe, Michigan, United States

Date of Death: 04-Apr-1933

Profession: journalist, memoirist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Elizabeth Clift Custer (née Bacon; April 8, 1842 – April 4, 1933) was an American author and public speaker, and the wife of Brevet Major General George Armstrong Custer, United States Army.
She spent most of their marriage in relatively close proximity to him despite his numerous military campaigns in the American Civil War and subsequent postings on the Great Plains as a commanding officer in the United States Cavalry. Left nearly destitute in the aftermath of her husband's death, she became an outspoken advocate for his legacy through her popular books and lectures.
Largely as a result of her decades of campaigning on his behalf, General Custer's iconic image as the gallant fallen hero amid the glory of Custer's Last Stand was a canon of American history for almost a century after his death. Elizabeth Custer never remarried and reached age 90 when she died in 1933, only four days short of her 91st birthday.
She has been portrayed by a number of actresses, starting in the 1940s in films and on television.



Description	American photographer, war photographer, photojournalist and journalist
Date of birth/death	18 May 1822	15 January 1896
Location of birth/death	Warren County	Manhattan
Work period	from 1844 until circa 1887 date QS:P,+1887-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Work location	New York City, Washington, D.C.
Authority control	: Q187850 VIAF: 22965552 ISNI: 0000 0001 2209 4376 ULAN: 500126201 LCCN: n81140569 NAID: 10570155 WorldCat