The Descendants of Elizabeth Hemings

Mary Hemings (continued)

When she was fourteen, Jefferson gave Mary Hemings Bell’s daughter Betsy Hemmings (1783-1857) to his daughter and son-in-law Maria and John Wayles Eppes.  She became head nurse in the Eppes household. Eppes’s children by his second wife erected a gravestone for their “Mammy,” “Mother, Sister & Friend to all who knew her.”

Frances Hemmings Dean, daughter of Betsy Hemmings

Getting Word participants Wilbert Dean, Omega Calimese, and Edna Jacques at the grave of their ancestor Betsy Hemmings

Nannie Hemmings Jones (d. 1984)

 

Mary Hemings Bell’s youngest daughter, Sally Jefferson Bell, married Jesse Scott, a noted Albemarle County musician (left, with his violin). Their son Robert Scott (1803-1899) (right) played violin in the Scott family band, famous all over Virginia in the nineteenth century.  Robert Scott’s descendants include:

 

Yvonne Simpkins and Gloria Thornburgh, Getting Word participants

Jesse Scott Sammons (1852-1901), a teacher and principal in Albemarle County, Virginia

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