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to pettiness or gossip in fact, her discretion was so noticeable that it was frequently mentioned by visitors to Mt. Vernon. When Washington was at the front, so was she, a great deal of the time.
Loving Father
The father of our country became a loving and devoted father to his wife's children. While some biographers say that Martha tended to worry too much about her children, it’s easy to see why. Of her four, two died in infancy and a third, her daughter Patsy, was never in good health.
Washington worried about the little girl and, unable to have any children of his own, took Patsy for various cures at springs and baths. When she died in 1773 he was heartbroken, and wrote in his diary: “The Sweet Innocent Girl entered into a more happy and peaceful abode than she was met with in the afflicted path she has hitherto trod. It is an easier matter to conceive than to describe the distress of this family over the death of dear “Patsy” Custis.
“Martha’s remaining son, John Parke, married and came to live at Mt. Vernon
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