Burial

Gramps ID E6674
Date 1826
Place interment in family cemetery at Monticello.

Source References

  1. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia [S2759]
      • Source text:

        Thomas Jefferson is buried on his Monticello estate. His epitaph, written by him with an insistence that only his words and "not a word more" be inscribed, reads:
        Here was buried
        Thomas Jefferson
        Author of the Declaration of American Independence
        of the Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom
        & Father of the University of Virginia

References

  1. Jefferson, Thomas IV (Primary) [I3515]