Page 15 - HP2A 006 George Washington

After retiring, George Washington

took over his father’s plantation

and became a producer of crops. He

married a wealthy widow named

Martha Custis, who was experienced

in the managing of a plantation.

They raised Martha’s offspring

from her previous marriage.

George Washington and Martha

Custis never had any children, the

reason probably being the fact that

Washington had suffered from

smallpox in 1751, and the disease

rendered him sterile.