The Descendants of Elizabeth Hemings

Sally Hemings (continued)

Sally Hemings’s youngest son, Eston Hemings (1808-1856), was also freed in Jefferson’s will.  He married a free woman of color, Julia Ann Isaacs, and moved to Chillicothe, Ohio, in the late 1830s.  For a dozen years he led a very successful dance band there; he was also a carpenter.  The family moved in 1852 to Madison, Wisconsin, where they used the surname Jefferson and lived as white people.  Their descendants include: 

	Lt. Col. John Wayles Jefferson (1835-1892), in 1864 commander of the 8th Wisconsin Regiment and a prosperous Memphis cotton broker after the War		Beverly Frederick Jefferson (1839-1908), owner of a hotel and transfer company in Madison, Wisconsin		Carl Smith Jefferson (1876-1941)

 

Mary Jefferson and her son Colby Boggs, Getting Word participants

Getting Word participants Julia Jefferson Westerinen, husband Emil Westerinen, son and daughter-in-law Art Westerinen and Susan Smart, and granddaughter Emily Westerinen

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