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Roberts was born on September 14, 1879, in Chillicothe, Ohio, the son of Andrew Jackson Roberts (1852–1927), a graduate of Oberlin College, and Ellen Wayles Hemings (1856–1940), the daughter of Madison Hemings and Mary Hughes McCoy, a free woman of color. Ellen was 5'10" with blue eyes, and the granddaughter of Sally Hemings and Thomas ...
Madison Hemings' youngest daughter Ellen Wayles Hemings married Andrew Jackson Roberts, a graduate of Oberlin College. They moved from Ohio to Los Angeles, California in 1885 with their first son Frederick, age six. The senior Roberts founded the first black-owned mortuary there and became a civic leader in the developing community. [50]
Henry Randolph I (1623-1673), born in Little Houghton, Northamptonshire, England, [2] [3] immigrated to the colony of Virginia in 1642, [4] protege of Sir William Berkeley. [5] Randolph became clerk of the county court, and when Charles Norwood left the colony, Speaker Francis Moryson put forth Randoph's name for the position and the House of ...
Unnamed Daughter Hemings ca. December 7, 1799 – ca. 1800 no spouse: died in early childhood Harriet Hemings (II) May 22, 1801 – after 1822 unknown: unknown: James Madison Hemings: January 18, 1805 – November 26, 1877 Mary Hughes McCoy Father of 10, including: Unnamed Son Hemings (dates unknown) Sarah Hemings (1835-1884) Thomas Eston ...
The Hemings family lived in Virginia in the 1700s and 1800s. The family consisted of Elizabeth "Betty" Hemings and her children and other descendants. They were slaves with at least one ancestor who had lived in Africa and been brought over the Atlantic Ocean in the Trans-Atlantic slave trade. Some of them became free later in their lives.
Unnamed Daughter Hemings ca. December 7, 1799 – ca. 1800 No spouse: Died in early childhood Harriet Hemings (II) May 22, 1801 – after 1822 Unknown: Unknown: James Madison Hemings: January 18, 1805 – November 26, 1877 Mary Hughes McCoy 10 children Eston Hemings: May 21, 1808 – January 3, 1856 Julia Ann Isaacs Father of 3, including:
Jefferson–Hemings controversy. The Jefferson–Hemings controversy is a historical debate over whether there was a sexual relationship between the widowed U.S. President Thomas Jefferson and his slave and sister-in-law, Sally Hemings, and whether he fathered some or all of her six recorded children. For more than 150 years, most historians ...
Pages in category "Hemings family" The following 23 pages are in this category, out of 23 total. ... Frederick Madison Roberts; T. William Monroe Trotter; W. John Wayles