Editing Robert E. Lee (section)

==Marriage and family==
[[File:Robert E Lee 1845.jpg|thumb|upright|right|Lee, around age 38, and his son [[William Henry Fitzhugh Lee]], around age 8, c.&nbsp;1845]]
While Lee was stationed at Fort Monroe, he married [[Mary Anna Custis Lee|Mary Anna Randolph Custis]] (1807–1873), great-granddaughter of [[Martha Washington]] by her first husband [[Daniel Parke Custis]], and step-great-granddaughter of [[George Washington]], the first president of the United States. <!-- This is a confusing sentence; until it can be clarified, it is being omitted. Among his wife's ancestors were Charles II through Lady Charlotte Lee and (as supposed) of George I from Melusina von der Schulenburg, an illegitimate daughter of George I who may have been the mother of Henry Swingate Calvert, illegitimate son by the 5th Baron Calvert whose daughter Eleanor Calvert married George Washington's step-son, John Parke Custis. --> Mary was the only surviving child of [[George Washington Parke Custis]], George Washington's stepgrandson, and [[Mary Lee Fitzhugh Custis]], daughter of [[William Fitzhugh]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=William Fitzhugh |url=http://www.nps.gov/frsp/fitzchm.htm |access-date=July 13, 2009 |publisher=[[Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park]], [[National Park Service]]}}</ref> and [[Ann Bolling Randolph Fitzhugh|Ann Bolling Randolph]]. Robert and Mary married on June 30, 1831, at [[Arlington House, The Robert E. Lee Memorial|Arlington House]], her parents' house just across the Potomac from Washington. The 3rd U.S. Artillery served as honor guard at the marriage. They eventually had seven children, three boys and four girls:{{sfn|Pryor|2007|p=95}}

# [[George Washington Custis Lee]] (Custis, "Boo"); 1832–1913; served as major general in the Confederate Army and aide-de-camp to President Jefferson Davis, captured during the Battle of Sailor's Creek; unmarried
# [[Mary Custis Lee]] (Mary, "Daughter"); 1835–1918; unmarried
# [[William Henry Fitzhugh Lee]] ("Rooney"); 1837–1891; served as major general in the Confederate Army (cavalry); married twice; surviving children by second marriage
# [[Anne Carter Lee]] (Annie); June 18, 1839&nbsp;– October 20, 1862; died of [[typhoid fever]], unmarried
# [[Eleanor Agnes Lee]] (Agnes); 1841&nbsp;– October 15, 1873; died of [[tuberculosis]], unmarried
# [[Robert Edward Lee, Jr.]] (Rob); 1843–1914; served in the Confederate Army, first as a private in the [[1st Rockbridge Artillery|Rockbridge Artillery]], later as a Captain on the staff of his brother Rooney; married twice; surviving children by second marriage
# [[Mildred Childe Lee]] (Milly, "Precious Life"); 1846–1905; unmarried

All the children survived him except for Annie, who died in 1862. They are all buried with their parents in the crypt of the [[University Chapel]] at [[Washington and Lee University]] in Lexington, Virginia.<ref name="WashingtonLee2020">{{Cite web |author=<!--Not stated.--> |date=2020 |title=About the Chapel |publisher=Washington and Lee University |url=https://my.wlu.edu/university-chapel-and-museum/about-the-chapel/history |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210613233813/https://my.wlu.edu/university-chapel-and-museum/about-the-chapel/history |archive-date=June 13, 2021 |access-date=June 13, 2021}}</ref>

Lee was a great-great-great-grandson of [[William Randolph]] and a great-great-grandson of [[Richard Bland (burgess)|Richard Bland]].<ref name="Dillon">{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XHlAAAAAYAAJ |title=John Marshall; life, character and judicial services as portrayed in the centenary and memorial addresses and proceedings throughout the United States on Marshall day, 1901, and in the classic orations of Binney, Story, Phelps, Waite and Rawle |publisher=Callaghan & Company |year=1903 |isbn=978-0722291474 |editor-last=Dillon |editor-first=John Forrest |editor-link=John Forrest Dillon |location=Chicago |pages=liv–lv |chapter=Introduction |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XHlAAAAAYAAJ&pg=PR54}}</ref> [[Fitzhugh Lee]] (1835–1905), a Confederate general and later a United States Army general in the [[Spanish–American War]], was Lee's nephew. Lee was a second cousin of [[Helen Keller]]'s grandmother,<ref name="Keller2005">{{Cite book |last=Helen Keller |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wec2LqDoSagC&pg=PA28 |title=Helen Keller: selected writings |date=2005 |publisher=New York University Press |isbn=978-0814758298 |editor-last=Nielsen |editor-first=Kim E. |location=New York}}</ref> and was a distant relative of Admiral [[Willis Augustus Lee]].<ref name="Olympedia2020">{{Cite web |work=Olympedia |title=Willis Lee |url=http://www.olympedia.org/athletes/44708 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210327010147/https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/44708 |archive-date=March 27, 2021 |access-date=June 14, 2021}}</ref>

On May 1, 1864, General Lee was present at the baptism of General [[A. P. Hill]]'s daughter, Lucy Lee Hill, to serve as her godfather. This is referenced in the painting ''Tender is the Heart'' by [[Mort Künstler]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Tender is the Heart |url=http://www.mortkunstler.com/html/art-original-masterworks.asp?action=view&ID=425&cat=132 |access-date=June 12, 2014 |publisher=Mort Künstler |archive-date=January 14, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150114034308/http://www.mortkunstler.com/html/art-original-masterworks.asp?action=view&ID=425&cat=132 |url-status=dead }}</ref> He was also the godfather of actress and writer [[Odette Tyler]], the daughter of Brigadier General [[William Whedbee Kirkland]].<ref name=":02">{{Cite magazine |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6MgRAAAAYAAJ&dq=Odette%20Tyler&pg=PA492 |title='The Gay Parisians' Leading Woman |date=January 1896 |magazine=Munsey's Magazine |page=492}}</ref>