Posted By:	Norma Custer
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	Subject:	Re: 5th Great Grandson of Thomas Custer?
	Post Date:	January 03, 2008 at 15:10:04
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There is no evidence that the father ever knew the son, or that the Custers ever acknowledged the boy. While father Tom wrote a will in 1873, in Monroe, MI, he did not name the son, and left everything to a fiancee and to his mother. In Tom's Civil War pension papers, on file at the National Archives in Washington, DC, the boy is not identified in any way. 1880 Federal Census, Wood Co., OH, Washington Twp., Family 127, Dwelling 127 7th June 1880, Pg. # XXI, Supervisor's District No. 1 Enumeration District No. 12 Samuel Minert, head, 64, farming Susan Minert, wife, 63, keeping house Thomas Custer, grandson, 9, at home. Perhaps the best evidence of all is Tommy's obituary in the Wood County Sentinel, dated Aug. 7, 1896: Nephew of Gen. Custer Dead. Saturday evening occured the death Tom Custer, at his home at Tontogany, from an attack of typhoid fever. Deceased was aged 30 years, and leaves a wife. He was a nephew of General Custar, of Indian fighting fame. The funeral was held on Monday. Tom Custer, father of the deceased, was also killed at the Battle of the Big Horn, where Gen. Custer was slain.