There may be more than one Emanuel Custer: After reading the following, see
if anything seems to pertain to your Custer (who does NOT appear in
Holdcraft's NAMES IN STONE.
Notes from J. Thomas Scharf's HISTORY OF WESTERN MARYLAND, reprint by
Regional Publising Co., Balt. 1968, Vol. II: p. 1353 Justice of the Peace,
Allegheny County 1828: Emanuel Custer (with others); reappointed 1830 (p.
1354). Then p. 1521 First Circuit Court of Garrett County appointed Emanuel
Custer with others to the Petit Jury, which convened on May 19, 1873.
Then teacher at a School No. 8 in Grantsville, Garrett County, Emanuel
Custer.
On page 1531, Scharf states: "Another leading family (of Garrett County) was
the Custers, of which the late Gen. George A, Custer was a member. John
Custer and Emanuel Custer left their native county, Frederick VA, and went
westward, the former stopping at Cresaptown, and the latter going into
Somerset County, PA and afterwards settling down on a beautiful tract of
land called Mount Nebo, near Grantsville, where he died in 1829. John
Custer was at one timne a hotel keeper and blacksmith....died in 1830,
leaving, among other sons, Emanuel Custer, who learned the same trade from
his father. About 1824, Emanuel, at the age of nineteen, left his smithy at
Clarysville, in Allegany County, with his whole possessions bound up in a
handkerchief, for the West. his objective was Harison County Ohio, to which
some relatives had preceded him. ...He was the father of Gen. Custer...The
great War Secretary, Stanton, was a devoted friend...Emanuel Custer, uncle
of the father of Gen Custer, died fifty years ago leaving eight sons - Adam,
Jacob, Daniel, John, David, Samuel, Peter, and Jeremiah, and Catherine, an
only daughter...
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From: PAT <pat125(a)erols.com>
To: MDFREDER-L(a)rootsweb.com <MDFREDER-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Date: Friday, June 18, 1999 4:40 AM
Subject: [MDFREDER-L] Custer
Carolyn,
I don't know if this will help or not but,
I just found, on an Inter-Library-Loan, the book "Indian Blood", by Evelyn
Guard Olsen.
This book is all about the Friend family of Garrett County, (my line).
While
I haven't read the book, yet. In the center of the book are
pictures of
Friends
and family. Some are from tintypes.
One page of photos says, "Tintypes from Katie Friend's album. Emanuel
Custer, husband of Susan Steele's sister, Rebecca."
While there is no date given, I am thinking "tintype" might mean it is
from
the time frame you mentioned, 1754-1854.
Do you think this could be the Emanuel Custer you are looking for?
Pat-T
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