New Rumley, Ohio is famous for being the birthplace of George Armstrong Custer. George Armstrong Custer George Armstrong Custer (December 5, 1839 â June 25, 1876) was an American cavalry commander in the Civil War and the Indian Wars who is best remembered for his defeat and death at the Battle of the Little Bighorn against a coalition of Native American tribes, led by...
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George Armstrong Custer was born in NewRumley, Ohio, to Emanuel Henry Custer (1806-1892), a farmer and flsmith; and Maria Kirkpatrick Ward (1807-1882).
George spent much of his boyhood living with his half-sister and his brother-in-law in Monroe, Michigan, where he attended school and is now honored by a statue in the center of town.
On August 7, 1828 in NewRumley, Ohio Emanuel married Matilda Viers (1804-1835) and they had the following childen: James Custer (c1829-?); Brice Custer (1831-?); and John A. Custer (1833-?).
She has pubÂlished "Boots and Saddles, or Life with General Custer in Dakota" (New York, 1885), and is now (1887) at work upon a volume of reminiscences of the general's service in Texas and Kansas.
After repeated attempts, which failed on account of his youth, he succeeded in enlisting as a private in an Ohio regiment, and served in the west until he was made aide-de-camp on his brother's staff, then with the Army of the Potomac.