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Beverly Hemings (brother), Harriet Hemings (sister), Madison Hemings (brother) Eston Hemings Jefferson (May 21, 1808 – January 3, 1856) was born into slavery at Monticello, the youngest son of Sally Hemings, a mixed-race enslaved woman. Most historians who have considered the question believe that his father was Thomas Jefferson, the third ...
- Eston Hemings, May 21, 1808, Monticello, Virginia, U.S.
- January 3, 1856 (aged 47), Madison, Wisconsin, U.S.
- 3, including John Wayles Jefferson
Eston Hemings was the youngest son of Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson. He became free in 1829, after learning the woodworking trade from his uncle John Hemmings. He married a free woman of color, Julia Ann Isaacs, and moved to Ohio, where he led a dance band and became a cabinetmaker. He and his family changed their surname to Jefferson and lived as white people in Wisconsin.
Eston Hemings was the youngest son of Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson. Eston Hemings learned the woodworking trade from his uncle, John Hemmings, and became free in 1829, according to the terms of Thomas Jefferson’s will. He and his brother Madison left Monticello to live in the town of Charlottesville with their mother, Sally Hemings.
Eston Hemings. Because of a momentous decision made in 1850, the lives of Eston Hemings Jefferson’s descendants differed radically from those of his brother Madison, exemplifying the striking gap in opportunities for blacks and whites in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. For thirty years the course of the brothers’ lives ...
The following summarizes what is known about Sally Hemings and her family. Sally Hemings (1773-1835) was an enslaved woman at Monticello; she lived in Paris with Jefferson and two of his daughters from 1787 to 1789; and, she had at least six children. Sally Hemings's duties included being a nursemaid-companion to Thomas Jefferson's daughter ...
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Jun 21, 2018 · Eston Hemings was of a light bronze color, a little over 6 feet tall, well proportioned, very erect and dignified; his nearly straight hair showed a tint of auburn, and his face, indistinct ...
1826 Jefferson’s will freed Hemings’s younger children, Madison and Eston. 1830 Sally Hemings and her sons Madison and Eston are listed as free white people in the 1830 census. Three years later, in a special census taken following the Nat Turner Rebellion of 1831, Hemings described herself as a free mulatto who had lived in Charlottesville ...
