Nevin Custer
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Nevin Johnson Custer (July 29, 1842 – 1915) was a younger brother of George Armstrong Custer and the only one of the four Custer brothers not killed in the Battle of the Little Bighorn (June 25–26, 1876).
Custer was born on in New Rumley, Ohio to Emanuel and Maria Custer. He was the second of five children. Nevin, or "Nev" as he was called, was a sickly child and youth and never joined the military because of his fraility. He became a farmer and married Ann North.
He died in Monroe, Michigan and is buried in Woodlawn Cemetery.
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- 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.