By: Meghan Stirling
 Martha
Jefferson
 She had ten half siblings, one who died
young from her father's second marriage
to Mary Cocke. Three half sisters from her
father's third marriage to Elizabeth
Lomax, and three half sisters and three
half-brothers by her father's slave and
mistress, Betsy Hemings.( one of which was
Sally Hemings)
 She died on 6 September 1782.
 Martha
had 6 children with Thomas. Their
names are…
 Martha Jefferson Randolph
 Jane Randolph
 Mary Wayles
 Lucy Elizabeth
 Elizabeth Jefferson.
 Martha gave birth to a stillborn son in
1777.
 With
Sally Hemings Jefferson had…
 Harriet Hemings-Jefferson
 Beverly Hemings-Jefferson
 Thenia Hemings-Jefferson
 Harriet Hemings-Jefferson
 Madison Hemings-Jefferson
 Eston Hemings-Jefferson
 Sally
Hemings was one of ten of Martha’s half
sisters.
 Sally was a mixed race slave owned by
Thomas Jefferson in Montecito.
 Jefferson had six children with Sally, and
maintained an extended relationship for 38
years until his death.
 When Jefferson's relationship and children
were reported in 1802, there was a coverage
for a time, but Jefferson remained silent on
the issue. Four Hemings-Jefferson children
survived to adulthood.
Thomas’s will specified his two younger children
be given to John Hemings as apprentices"...until
their respective ages of twenty one years, at
which period respectively, I give them their
freedom.”
 Following Jefferson's death, Sally was given "her
time", which meant that she was neither free or
a slave, but meant that she was to be left alone
while living in Charlottesville.
 Sally Hemings lived her last nine years with her
two freed sons in nearby Charlottesville,
Virginia.
 After Sally's death in 1835,Eston and Madison
Hemings migrated with their families to
Chillicothe in the free state of Ohio.
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 Jefferson
inherited slaves as a child, and
owned upwards of 700 different people at
one time or another.
 The historian Herbert E. Sloan says that
Jefferson's debt prevented him from freeing
his slaves.
 Finkelman says that freeing slaves was "not
even a mildly important goal" of Jefferson,
who preferred to spend wastefully on luxury
goods like wines and French chairs.
 As
was typical of planters, Jefferson made
decisions about breaking up families when he
gave slaves to his sisters and daughters as
wedding presents.
 He considered children over the age of 10 or
12, when they began working on the
plantation, as ready to leave their families.
 Like how he gave the 14-year-old Betsy
Hemings, a mixed-race slave, and 30 other
slaves to his daughter Mary Jefferson
Eppes and her husband on the occasion of
her marriage.
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Jefferson' health began to deteriorate by July 1825,
and by June 1826 he was confined to bed. His death
was from natural causes, a combination of illnesses
and conditions including uremia, severe diarrhea,
and pneumonia.
Jefferson died on July 4, 1826, the fiftieth
anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, and
a few hours before John Adams died.
Though born into a wealthy slave-owning family,
Jefferson had many financial problems, and died
deeply in debt.
He gave instructions for disposal of his assets in his
Will and after his death, his possessions, including the
persons he held as slaves were sold off in public
auctions starting in 1827,Monticello itself was sold in
1831.
Thomas Jefferson is buried in the family
cemetery at Monticello. The cemetery only is
now owned and operated by the Monticello
Association, a separate society that
is not affiliated with the Thomas Jefferson Foundation that
runs the estate.
 Jefferson wrote his own epitaph, which says:
HERE WAS BURIED THOMAS JEFFERSON
AUTHOR OF THE DECLARATION OF AMERICAN
INDEPENDENCE
OF THE STATUTE OF VIRGINIA FOR RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
AND FATHER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA.
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A
bronze monument was placed in Jefferson
Park in Chicago. This is at the entrance to
the Jefferson Transit.
The Great Rotunda, Virginia
University, Jefferson designed it.
 Jefferson
is on the nickel.
 Jefferson
Memorial.
 Jefferson
is on the two dollar bill.
 Jefferson
is on Mount Rushmore.
 Jefferson
has a ship named after him, the
Thomas Jefferson.
 Jefferson's
tombstone reflects the things he
gave the people not the things the people
gave to him.
 University
of Virginia, Jefferson designed.
 Monticello
is a World Heritage Site, one of
three in the 50 states.