The Native America Indian have been displaced, dispossessed, and misunderstood. Possible Cheyenne descendants. Carey, 92, of Ellsworth, is the last surviving child of any of the soldiers who fought in the battle where Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer and his battalion were wiped out. After Gertrude's death, Arnold married Rebecca, and they are the ancestors of General George Armstrong Custer. My husband, Gary, and I already knew some of the basics and a cousin, Robert Livingston Custer, had done quite a bit of research into our Custer ancestry. Search 958 then share your genealogy and compare DNA to grow an accurate global family tree that's free forever. On 11 October 1867, at Fort Leavenworth, a court martial found Brevet Major General George Armstrong Custer, Lieutenant Colonel, 7 th U.S. Cavalry guilty and sentenced him to suspension from rank and command for one year, and forfeiture of his pay for the same time.----- George Armstrong Custer was a U.S. military officer and commander who rose to fame as a young officer during the American Civil War. Conrad Kuster is probably her son. Genealogy, Family, Family Genealogy, Custer, Ball, George Washington, George Armstrong Custer, Kimball, Atherold, family names "For the sons become the fathers, and the daughters will be wives, as the torch is passed from hand to hand and we struggle through our lives. George Custer was alleged (by Captain Frederick Benteen, chief of scouts Ben Clark, and Cheyenne oral tradition) to have unofficially married Mo-nah-se-tah, daughter of the Cheyenne chief Little Rock, in the winter or early spring of 1868–1869. The Custer family was the first of our families that I researched. Carey, 92, of Ellsworth, is the last surviving child of any of the soldiers who fought in the battle where Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer and his battalion were wiped out. (Monaghan, Jan, Custer: The Life of George Armstrong Custer) George Armstrong Custer was hailed as a national hero for his bravery and boldness under fire. He graduated from West Point just in time for the Civil War. The following year, what may have been Custer's remains were disinterred and given a military funeral at West Point. The Custer brothers were born in Monroe, Mich. George, the eldest, decided early on a military career. The Descendants of Alexander S. Custer Harrison County, West Virginia. Custer was born in New Rumley, Ohio, to Emanuel Henry Custer (1806–1892), a farmer and blacksmith, and Marie Ward Kirkpatrick (1807–1882). He was U.S. cavalry officer who distinguished himself in the American Civil War (1861–65) but later led his men to death in one of the most controversial battles in U.S. history, the Battle of the Little Bighorn. Her father fought Indians in the Battle of Little Bighorn 123 years ago. Tell us what you like and we'll recommend books you'll love. He had married Gertrude Conrads/Conratz in Kaldenkirchen, but it is unknown exactly where and when she died. Her father fought Indians in the Battle of Little Bighorn 123 years ago. There were Custer descendants George A. Custer, 67, Retired Army Colonel , MONROE, Mich., May 20— George Armstrong Custer 3d, a retired Army colonel who vigorously opposed attempts to rename a national monument dedicated to his great-granduncle, died of a heart attack on Saturday at a hospital in Toledo, Ohio, He was 67 years old. Whites and Indians on Tuesday remembered the Battle of the Little Bighorn, where Custer's 7th Cavalry was defeated 120 years ago by a combined force of Plains Indians. Custer and more than 200 officers and men of the 7th US Cavalry died at the hands of an overwhelming force of Lakota Sioux and Cheyenne Indians.