Yes, Sally Hemings and Martha Wayles Jefferson were half-sisters. Hemings’ childhood was spent as a nursemaid to Jefferson’s daughter Maria. Little else is known about her life until she was 14.

Almost 35 years ago, Sally Hemings and her enslaver Thomas Jefferson were reportedly sealed in posthumous marriage in a temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. This is Old News ...

In 1784, Jefferson went to Paris, eventually gathering his two daughters, Martha and Polly, and Sally and James Hemings, around him.

A commission of scholars issued a report yesterday challenging an earlier study that had indicated Thomas Jefferson fathered children with his slave Sally Hemings. After a year of work, the ...

This summer, Sally Hemings of Monticello is getting her own room. Excavators are scraping away at the brick floor and fireplace of the windowless 14-2/3 x 13’ space, steps from Thomas Jefferson ...

Denying Sally Hemings's offspring a place in their ranks won't spare the 700 lineal descendants of Mr. Jefferson and his wife, Martha, from continued scholarly and popular talk about the ...

Sally Hemings might be a household name these days, but we still know so little about the relationship between Hemings and Thomas Jefferson. Yet, Hemings endures as a figure of endless fascination ...

In 2022, Annette Gordon-Reed posed outside the Conroe ISD school named in her honor. Gordon-Reed, a Conroe High grad, won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for her work on Jefferson and the Hemings family.

<p>Sally Hemings (1773-1835), was a slave at Thomas Jefferson&#8217;s Monticello, pictured, and was the third president&#8217;s mistress, according to a DNA analysis in 1998.</p><p>Hemings was the ...

Madison Hemings' parents were Sally Hemings (1773-Sept. 6, 1835) and Thomas Jefferson (April 13, 1743-July 4, 1826). The month and day of Sally Hemings' birth are not known.