Westerinen finally discovered her connection in 1974, after Thomas Jefferson: An Intimate History, a biography by Fawn Brodie, uncovered the details of the Hemings family.

The charge that Thomas Jefferson fathered children with Sally Hemings at Monticello did not get started by her present-day descendants. The claim has been around for nearly two centuries. It ...

Shannon LaNier, a ninth-generation descendant of Thomas Jefferson and his slave, Sally Hemings, wore the same sort of outfit as his famous ancestor for a Smithsonian Magazine article, "American ...

Mary Brady-Atkins is related to Thomas Jefferson via her father, Marion Thomas Lee (1903-83). His mother, Brady-Atkins' grandmother, was Mary Elizabeth Lee (1863-1940), whom Brady-Atkins is named ...

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — At the call for pictures, members of Thomas Jefferson's family and descendants of his slaves once again crowded between columns of the president's hilltop estate of ...

MADISON, Wis. (WMTV) - Three Civil War veterans and descendants of former President Thomas Jefferson were honored Saturday afternoon. A ceremony hosted at the Forest Hill Cemetery in Madison ...