J. Calvin Jefferson

Calvin Jefferson, who is descended from the Grangers as well as the Hemingses of Monticello, grew up in Washington, DC.  After working for the U. S. Postal Service, he became an archivist for the National Archives and Records Administration, from which he retired in 2007 after thirty years.  He did not learn of his family’s connection to Monticello until 1996.  He has a strong interest in his family history and continues research on the Hemings family, particularly Betty Brown and her descendants.

Ancestry

• Elizabeth Hemings

  1735-1807

• Betty Brown

  1759-post 1831

• Wormley Hughes

  1780-1858

• Robert Hughes

  1821-1895

• J. Calvin Jefferson

  1946-

Related People

• Bessie Baskerville Dorsey - Cousin
• Joyce Dorsey Harrod - Cousin

Calvin Jefferson, 1998

Calvin Jefferson with his family

Interview Information

25 Jan. 1998, Washington, DC
Interviewees: Bessie Baskerville Dorsey, Calvin Jefferson, Joyce Harrod