Margaret Custer

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Margaret Emma Custer (January 5, 1852 - 1910) was the younger sister of George Armstrong Custer.

Margaret Custer was born in New Rumley, Ohio on January 5, 1852. She was called "Maggie" by her family and friends and grew up with four brothers, Tom, Nevin, Boston and the most famous, George Armstrong Custer.

In 1870, she met James C. Calhoun and fell in love with him. She married him in March 1872 and remained happily married to him until he was killed at the Battle of the Little Bighorn on June 25, 1876.

Maggie remarried on July 30, 1903 to John Maugham in Pennsylvania.

She died in 1910 and is buried in Woodlawn Cemetery in Monroe, Michigan.

[edit] External sources

• Son of the Morning Star, Evan S. Connell, 1984, ISBN 0-06-097161-4
• Cavalier in Buckskin, Robert M. Utley, 1988, ISBN 0-8061-2150-5
• Custer: A Soldier's Story, D.A. Kinsley, 1967, ISBN 0-88394-074-4
• The Custer Album, Lawrence A. Frost, 1984, ISBN 0-517-42714-1