Ellen Hemings Roberts,
daughter of Madison Hemings
Ellen Roberts (1856-1940) was the youngest daughter of Madison Hemings (1805-1878), son of Sally Hemings. One of only five enslaved men freed in Thomas Jefferson's will, Hemings was trained as a carpenter by his uncle, the master joiner John Hemmings. After his mother's death he moved with his wife, Mary Hughes McCoy, to southern Ohio, where he pursued his woodworking trade and purchased a farm. In 1873 his recollections of his life were published in an Ohio newspaper. Ellen Roberts' son Frederick Madison Roberts (1879-1952) became the first black member of the California legislature.
Madison Hemings' granddaughter Emma Byrd Young, her husband, George Young, and their children
The Young family some years later
Emma Young's grandchildren Ann Pettiford and George "Jack" Pettiford
Ann Pettiford Medley and her daughter
Patti Jo Medley Harding. At right, Ann
Medley's brother George "Jack" Pettiford
Emma Young's great-great-grandson William Dalton
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