By: Meghan Stirling

 Martha Jefferson  She had ten half siblings, one who died young from her father's second marriage to Mary Cocke. Three half sisters from her father's third marriage to Elizabeth Lomax, and three half sisters and three half-brothers by her father's slave and mistress, Betsy Hemings.( one of which was Sally Hemings)  She died on 6 September 1782.

 Martha had 6 children with Thomas. Their names are…  Martha Jefferson Randolph  Jane Randolph  Mary Wayles  Lucy Elizabeth  Elizabeth Jefferson.  Martha gave birth to a stillborn son in 1777.

 With Sally Hemings Jefferson had…  Harriet Hemings-Jefferson  Beverly Hemings-Jefferson  Thenia Hemings-Jefferson  Harriet Hemings-Jefferson  Madison Hemings-Jefferson  Eston Hemings-Jefferson

SSally Hemings was one of ten of Martha’s half sisters. SSally was a mixed race slave owned by Thomas Jefferson in Montecito.  J Jefferson had six children with Sally, and maintained an extended relationship for 38 years until his death. WWhen Jefferson's relationship and children were reported in 1802, there was a coverage for a time, but Jefferson remained silent on the issue. Four Hemings-Jefferson children survived to adulthood.

 Thomas’s will specified his two younger children be given to John Hemings as apprentices"...until their respective ages of twenty one years, at which period respectively, I give them their freedom.”  Following Jefferson's death, Sally was given "her time", which meant that she was neither free or a slave, but meant that she was to be left alone while living in Charlottesville.  Sally Hemings lived her last nine years with her two freed sons in nearby Charlottesville, Virginia.  After Sally's death in 1835,Eston and Madison Hemings migrated with their families to Chillicothe in the free state of Ohio.

 Jefferson inherited slaves as a child, and owned upwards of 700 different people at one time or another.  The historian Herbert E. Sloan says that Jefferson's debt prevented him from freeing his slaves.  Finkelman says that freeing slaves was "not even a mildly important goal" of Jefferson, who preferred to spend wastefully on luxury goods like wines and French chairs.

 As was typical of planters, Jefferson made decisions about breaking up families when he gave slaves to his sisters and daughters as wedding presents.  He considered children over the age of 10 or 12, when they began working on the plantation, as ready to leave their families.  Like how he gave the 14-year-old Betsy Hemings, a mixed-race slave, and 30 other slaves to his daughter Mary Jefferson Eppes and her husband on the occasion of her marriage.

 Jefferson' health began to deteriorate by July 1825, and by June 1826 he was confined to bed. His death was from natural causes, a combination of illnesses and conditions including uremia, severe diarrhea, and pneumonia.  Jefferson died on July 4, 1826, the fiftieth anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, and a few hours before John Adams died.  Though born into a wealthy slave-owning family, Jefferson had many financial problems, and died deeply in debt.  He gave instructions for disposal of his assets in his Will and after his death, his possessions, including the persons he held as slaves were sold off in public auctions starting in 1827,Monticello itself was sold in 1831.

 Thomas Jefferson is buried in the family cemetery at Monticello. The cemetery only is now owned and operated by the Monticello Association, a separate society that is not affiliated with the Thomas Jefferson Foundation that runs the estate.  Jefferson wrote his own epitaph, which says: HERE WAS BURIED THOMAS JEFFERSON AUTHOR OF THE DECLARATION OF AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE OF THE STATUTE OF VIRGINIA FOR RELIGIOUS FREEDOM AND FATHER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA.

 A bronze monument was placed in Jefferson Park in Chicago. This is at the entrance to the Jefferson Transit.

The Great Rotunda, Virginia University, Jefferson designed it.

 Jefferson is on the nickel.

JJefferson Memorial.

 Jefferson is on the two dollar bill.

 Jefferson is on Mount Rushmore.

 Jefferson has a ship named after him, the Thomas Jefferson.

 Jefferson's tombstone reflects the things he gave the people not the things the people gave to him.

 University of Virginia, Jefferson designed.

 Monticello is a World Heritage Site, one of three in the 50 states.