Marla is confused about the other source of Hemings DNA. That source is from a
Civil War soldier, William Hemings, son of Madison Hemings and is buried in
the Veterans Cemetery in Leavenworth Kansas. Even the Hemings descendants
refused to believe this until my research revealed many things like, the
amount of money in his pocket when he died, a picture of the grave site, the
organization he belonged to, and others. Shay Banks-Young has told me they
will never test and hold to their oral family history. Dan Jordan at
Montivello refuses to pursue the matter. I suppose research is performed on
matters that interest people.

John Works, Jr., Past President of the Monticello Association (Thomas
Jefferson descendants) and Past President of The Thomas Jefferson Heritage
Society, is part of deeply commited researchers on ALL sides of the unfound
charges about Thomas Jefferson was the father of slave children. He and others
know there is no proof to those old Campaign Lies. See the Dr. and Mrs. James
McMurry book, "Anatomy of a Scandal" available from Amazon.

Herb Barger
Jefferson Family Historian

Marla Randolph Stevens wrote:
Works, Jr., et al began to claim that Sally Hemings was not
the half-aunt of Mr. Jefferson's children with Martha Wayles.

As for the Hemings being willing to produce the other source of DNA to
which Mr. Barger refers, it would come from a grave of an infant in an old
graveyard that might or might not be a Hemings descendant of a line that
does not have an unbroken chain of male descendants.
Mind you, I'm not advocating digging up Mr. Jefferson.  The chances of
finding functional DNA are too small for the insult to his bones for
that.  Marla Randolph Stevens


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