On May 22, 1802, the first of first ladies, Martha Dandridge Custis Washington died of a severe fever. When she married George Washington in January 1759, she was twenty-seven years old and a widowed ...

The lap desk that Mike, from Birmingham, Alabama, brought to the ROADSHOW in Mobile in the summer of 2006 is a fantastic illustration of how the value of an elegant, if unremarkable, antique can ...

THOMASVILLE- The April meeting of the Thomasville Chapter National Society Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) featured a visit by Martha Washington as portrayed by Carol Russell. She was ...

Martha Custis Washington, wife of the first president of the United States of America, did not have an easy life. She suffered through many unexpected and tragic deaths in her family. Her husband gave ...