Jefferson would go on to marry Martha Wayles Skelton, a young widow, in 1772, and they had six children together, only two of whom survived to adulthood. Ten years later, in 1782, she died at the ...

"Thomas Jefferson has been my school for 30 out of the 48 years of my life," she said, explaining she attended the school and came back to teach 15 years later. She has taught at Jefferson for 23 ...