From my view he was proud of his family and loved his mom. Jane Steele
-----Original Message-----
>From: Herbert Barger <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: Nov 3, 2008 10:31 AM
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: [VA-HIST] Biology and Sally Hemings
>
>No, Madison Hemings remained in Pike Co., Ohio. It was his lighter skinned
>brother Eston who moved to Wisconsin, passing as white as his descendents
>did. Just thinking out loud here: IF he wished to pass as white and draw no
>attention WHY did he choose to use the eye catching name, E.H. Jefferson?
>
>Herb Barger
>
>
>Herbert,
>
>Didn't Madison move to Wisconsin where he was known as Madison Jefferson,
>and was considered white, but his wife was mixed, so the children, would
>have also been so, and as they married other darker people, this descendents
>
>today could be much darker than Madison was.
>
>Anne
>
>Anne Pemberton
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>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Herbert Barger" <[log in to unmask]>
>To: <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: Sunday, November 02, 2008 7:39 PM
>Subject: Re: Biology and Sally Hemings
>
>
>Anne may I insert a correction and clarification here. All of Sally's
>children and their descendants were NOT white or light skinned. Eston's
>family, who claimed descent from Randolph, passed as white because they
>looked that way, however Madison who claimed TJ as his grandfather, could
>not pass for white, remained in the black community in Ohio and his
>descendants are black. May we not question this since some are claiming that
>Sally had only one father for her children. The Madison descendants of today
>REFUSE to DNA test Madison's son's DNA in a grave in Leavenworth, Kansas.
>
>Herb Barger
>Jefferson Family Historian
>
>On Nov 1, 2008, at 9:46 PM, Anne Pemberton wrote:
>
>> Lyle,
>>
>> Explain, if you will how Sally, who was 1/2 or 1/4 black could mate
>> with a slave who was 1/4 black and produce all and only white/light-
>> skinned children, and six of them at that. Seems to me that with six
>> children, at least one of them would be considerably darker than the
>> others. Are we discussing the difference between scientific
>> possibilities and probabilities?
>>
>> Anne
>>
>> Anne Pemberton
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