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Mary Jefferson Eppes (August 1, 1778 – April 17, 1804), known as Polly in childhood and Maria as an adult, was the younger of Thomas Jefferson's two daughters with his wife who survived beyond the age of 3. She married a first cousin, John Wayles Eppes, and had three children with him. Only their son Francis W. Eppes survived childhood. Maria ...
[citation needed] Elizabeth married Francis Eppes, Martha's cousin, and had two sons, Richard and John Wayles Eppes, the latter of whom married Thomas Jefferson's second daughter, Mary Jefferson. [11] Wayles' second wife died most likely after the birth of Anne in August 1756 and before he married his third wife in January 1760. [7]
Virginia Jefferson Randolph (1801–1881), who married Nicholas Trist (1800–1874). [31] [32] Mary Jefferson Randolph (1803–1876). She lived at Edge Hill and helped her sister-in-law, Jane, supervise the household of her brother Thomas Jefferson Randolph. She and her sister Cornelia also visited the houses of their siblings during times of ...
Randolph would later divide and sell the rest of Jefferson's landholdings; he also sold many of Jefferson's slaves to repay debts. [5] Near the end of his life, Jefferson sought to find permanent residents for the property, and his grandson Francis W. Eppes and wife Mary Elizabeth moved to Poplar Forest shortly after their 1823 marriage. [5]
Thomas Sully, Portrait of Martha Jefferson Randolph. On February 23, 1790, Randolph married Martha Jefferson, daughter of Thomas Jefferson and his wife Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson. [8] [9] The Jefferson and Randolph families had shared progenitors; [1] They were third cousins. [9] Thomas Jefferson was a second cousin to Randolph.
Eppes married his first cousin Mary Jefferson (known as "Polly" in childhood and "Maria" as an adult) on October 13, 1797, at Monticello. [1] They resided at Mont Blanco plantation in Chesterfield County, Virginia. After several miscarriages, [4] Maria and John had three children: [3] Unnamed daughter Eppes (December 31, 1799 – January 1800) [4]
Catherine, Princess of Wales, is shown at The National Portrait Gallery on Feb. 4, 2025, in London. She joined a group of children to kick off a new initiative focused on helping young children ...
Gilbert Stuart, Thomas Jefferson Medallion Portrait, 1805, the year that Madison Hemings was born. Madison Hemings was born into slavery at Monticello, [4] where his mother Sally Hemings was a mixed-race enslaved woman inherited by Martha Wayles Skelton, the wife of Thomas Jefferson.