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[[File:Taft and Libbie Custer 1910.png|thumb|250px|left|alt=Howard Taft unveiling the Custer statue, 1910|An elderly Elizabeth, seen looking at [[William Howard Taft|President Taft]] in black hat and dress from the far left of the frame, attends the unveiling of the [[George Armstrong Custer Equestrian Monument|Custer statue]] in [[Monroe, Michigan]], in 1910.]]
Elizabeth remained utterly devoted to her husband and never remarried. Despite having spent her life traveling extensively throughout the United States (including winters in Florida) and the world, she never visited the
After an initial period of distress dealing with her late husband's debts,<ref>{{Cite book |last=Barnett |first=Louise |year=1996 |title=Touched by Fire: The Life, Death, and Afterlife of George Armstrong Custer |publisher=Henry Holt and Company, Inc. |location=New York |isbn=0-8050-3720-9 |page=355 |url=https://archive.org/details/touchedbyfirelif00barn/page/355 }}</ref> Elizabeth spent her over a half-century of widowhood in financial comfort attained as the result of her literary career and lecture tours, leaving an estate of over $100,000 {{USDCY|100000|1933}}.<ref name="Wert, Jeffry D. 1996 357"/> She died in New York City, four days before her 91st birthday, on April 4, 1933, and was buried next to her husband at [[United States Military Academy|West Point]]. A few years before her death she told a writer that her greatest disappointment was that she never had a son to bear her husband's honored name.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Donovan |first=James M. |year=2008 |title=A terrible glory: Custer and the Little Bighorn – The last great battle of the American West |publisher=Little, Brown and Co. |location=New York |isbn=978-0-316-15578-6 |url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780316155786 }}</ref>
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