John Wayles Jefferson, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

John Wayles Jefferson

Union Army colonel, grandson of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings

Date of Birth: 08-May-1835

Place of Birth: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States

Date of Death: 12-Jul-1892

Profession: journalist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

John Wayles Jefferson (né Hemings; May 8, 1835 – June 12, 1892), was an American businessman, and during the American Civil War, a soldier in the Union Army who was promoted to the rank of colonel.
Jefferson owned a hotel in Madison, Wisconsin, in the 1850s.
After the Civil War, he moved to Memphis, Tennessee, where he achieved wealth as a cotton broker.
Jefferson is believed to be a grandson of Thomas Jefferson, third President of the United States; his paternal grandmother was Sarah (Sally) Hemings, the President's mixed-race slave and half-sister to his late wife. Jefferson was the eldest son of Eston Hemings (1808–56), a former slave freed in Jefferson's will, who was seven-eighths European in ancestry and "white" under Virginia law, and Julia Ann (née Isaacs) Hemings (1814–1889), a free woman of color who was of three-quarters European descent.
The Hemings moved from Charlottesville, Virginia to Chillicothe, Ohio in 1836.
They moved to Madison, Wisconsin, in 1852, taking the surname Jefferson, and entered the white community, where they were well accepted.