Descendants
Betty Hemings has numerous descendants. Some of note are:
- From the family line of daughter Sally Hemings
- Madison Hemings - 2xgreat-grandson Frederick Madison Roberts, state politician in California; Eston Hemings Jefferson - great-grandson John Wayles Jefferson, colonel in Civil War and wealthy cotton broker; 2xgreat-grandson Walter Beverly Pearson, industrialist; John Weeks Jefferson, descendant whose DNA matched that of Jefferson male line in 1998 test
- From the family line of daughter Mary Hemings
- James Monroe Trotter
- William Monroe Trotter
Fountain Hughes was a descendant of Wormley Hughes, one of Betty's grandsons. At the age of 101, he gave what is the last surviving recorded interview of a former slave, when living in Baltimore, Maryland in 1949. It is available online through the World Digital Library and the American Folklife Center of the Library of Congress. He was a grandson of a slave owned by President Thomas Jefferson at Monticello.
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