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low in spirits & health: in a letter to her husband, Mary elaborated on her condition: “my health has been growing gradually worse, I have puked up a great deal of bile which I suppose is the cause of it, but am afraid to take any thing in my present situation, tho’ my stomach is so weak that it scarcely retains any thing” (Mary Jefferson Eppes to John Wayles Eppes, 6 Feb. 1804, RC in ViU).
Jefferson had given her to Eppes' parents at their wedding. She was the daughter of Mary Hemings and the granddaughter of Betty Hemings , who was held by the Jeffersons at Monticello. Among his early nurses was Critta Hemings Bowles , an aunt of Betsy Hemmings, [2] whom Eppes would purchase and manumit in 1827, after Jefferson's death (She had long been married to Zachariah Bowles, a free man ...
Thomas Eston Hemings was born in 1838 to Mary McCoy and Madison Hemings at a time and place in our history up from slavery that ought never be forgotten because so many of us the living owe so very much to the chosen few like him who died that others might live better and more fruitful lives. Growing up in Ohio during the 1840s and 1850s must ...
(Elizabeth Wayles Eppes to Jefferson). "Your Sister Bolling has favoured us with her company a few days, and I was in great hopes Mrs. Carr would have been here before dear Pollys departure as it was not in our power to send her to visit her, being at present without a carriage." [24] 1787 July 23. (Jefferson to Mary Jefferson Bolling).
Francis Wayles Eppes. Francis Wayles Eppes (September 20, 1801 - May 30, 1881) was the only surviving child of Thomas Jefferson's daughter Maria Jefferson Eppes and her husband, John Wayles Eppes, Jefferson's nephew by marriage. Six months before Francis was born, Thomas Jefferson took the oath of office as the third president of the United States.
On April 17, 1804, Mary Jefferson Eppes, daughter of President Thomas Jefferson died. Polly (as she was known since childhood) never recovered from the birth of her third child. She was only 26 years old. When she was 9 years old she sailed across the Atlantic in order to join her father in Paris, where he was serving as ambassador.
Manuscript/Mixed Material Thomas Jefferson to Mary Jefferson Eppes, April 11, 1801 View 2 images in sequence. Download: GIF (100.9 KB) JPEG (268.1 KB) Go
