Yes, you are correct; they had the Jefferson marker.  But the family refused to allow Eason, I believe, the last remaining closest descendant child of Sally Hemings and a Jefferson, to be exhumed.  His DNA would have been compared against the last in the Jefferson white male line or some such.
   
  People do want to move on, on both sides.  It is just not with the "chuckle-chuckle" elbow in the side, he-he, it was Thomas, when it is not determined to be so.
   
  It must have been nearly painful to have lived around, and travelled with the half-sister of his own much beloved wife.  I would be the first to say it would have been a nearly undenial possibility.
   
  But I leave that to science and we should too.

Quan Pruitt <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
  I agree, it did not tarnish or damage his reputation at all and it was the era.

It is the present that has to prove a point. I'm still trying to figure out what the point was. 

Sally was not the main issue it was her children and if I remember correct the DNA proved they have the Jefferson family marker. 

Embrace it, let it go and lets move on.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: sharon Peery 
To: [log in to unmask] 
Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2007 6:19 AM
Subject: Re: [VA-ROOTS] 11/15: LVA Book Talk - Mr. Jefferson's Women by Jon Kukla


The most interesting thing about this controversy is the
degree of heat it still generates. Now, as an outsider, I
wonder why.

Is it a belief that so pure a soul as Jefferson would have
remained entirely chaste in the forty-odd years of life left to
him after the death of his wife? Is it a denial of the possibility
that Jefferson failed to acknowledge biological children? Or is
this simply the old Southern attitude, that so high a character
would not have contaminated himself by having sexual inter-
course with a woman who was in part African?

> Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 18:01:13 -0500> From: [log in to unmask]> Subject: Re: 11/15: LVA Book Talk - Mr. Jefferson's Women by Jon Kukla> To: [log in to unmask]> > I sure am glad I don't live close enough to Richmond and the speech and the > author would hear some words from me. It has been proven to me and most around > Monticello who go there often as we used to do when living in Va. that DNA > proved Sally Hemings was not a descendant of one of our best and most > brilliant Presidents is being besmerched by a person who is not worth the paper his > writing are written on. > > We had very lengthy disgussions on this subject quite a number of years ago > and its time to stop this. The author and some of other so called investagators > of history have done great damage to a fine and brilliant President. I resent > this so called author's reporting after all the investigative reporting more > than 10 years ago. What an ego to think he knows more than all those people. >
 > Sarah Browder in Texas, a former Virginia resident. > > > > **************************************> See what's new at http://www.aol.com
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