Jefferson, Maria Wayles

Birth Name Jefferson, Maria Wayles
Also Known As Polly
Also Known As Jefferson, Mary 1a
Gramps ID I2856
Gender female
Age at Death 25 years, 8 months, 16 days

Events

Event Date Place Description Notes Sources
Birth [E5475] 1778-08-01 Monticello, Albemarle, Virginia, USA  
1b
Birth [E5476] 1778    
 
Death [E5477] 1804-04-17 Monticello, Albemarle, Virginia, USA  
1c
Death [E5478] 1804 VA  
 

Parents

Relation to main person Name Birth date Death date Relation within this family (if not by birth)
Father Jefferson, Thomas IV [I3515]1743-04-131826-07-04
Mother Wayles, Martha [I2847]1748-10-191782-09-06
    Sister     Jefferson, Martha Washington [I2865] 1772-09-27 1836-10-10
    Sister     Jefferson, Jane Randolph [I2862] 1774 1775
    Brother     Jefferson, Son [I3652] 1777 1777
         Jefferson, Maria Wayles [I2856] 1778-08-01 1804-04-17
    Sister     Jefferson, Lucy Elizabeth [I3511] 1780 1781
    Sister     Jefferson, Lucy Elizabeth [I2863] 1782-05-08 1784-10-13

Families

    Family of Eppes, John Wayles and Jefferson, Maria Wayles [F1189]
Married Husband Eppes, John Wayles [I2857] ( * 1773-04-07 + 1823-09-05 )
   
Event Date Place Description Notes Sources
Marriage [E13554] 1797-10-13 Monticello, Albemarle, Virginia, USA  
1d
Marriage [E13555] 1797 VA  
2
  Children
Name Birth Date Death Date
Eppes, Francis Wayles [I2855]1801-09-201881-05-30
Eppes, Martha Jefferson [I4243]1804-02-201807
Eppes, John [I4244]1813-03-251881
Eppes, Sarah [I4375]UNKNOWN
  Attributes
Type Value Notes Sources
REFN 69452
 

Narrative

The Favorite of Everyone"
Martha's sister Maria, called Polly as a child, was sent to stay with her aunt, Elizabeth Wayles Eppes, following her mother's death. Polly became very attached to the family at Eppington, and when Jefferson arranged for the eight-year-old to join him and Martha in Paris, she wrote, "I don't want to go to France, I had rather stay with Aunt Eppes." Upon her arrival in England, Polly lived briefly with Abigail and John Adams, who were so charmed by the little girl that Mrs. Adams wrote to Jefferson that "she was the favorite of everyone in the house."

In 1797, Maria married her cousin, John Wayles Eppes, and returned to live at Eppington. Like her mother, Maria suffered from poor health; she died at the age of twenty-five. After her death, which followed the death in infancy of three sisters and a brother?, the grieving Jefferson wrote his friend John Page that "I...have lost even the half of what I had. My evening prospects now hang on the slender thread of a single life. Perhaps I may be destined to see even this last chord of parental affection broken!"

Attributes

Type Value Notes Sources
REFN 2856
 

Pedigree

  1. Jefferson, Thomas IV [I3515]
    1. Wayles, Martha [I2847]
      1. Jefferson, Martha Washington [I2865]
      2. Jefferson, Jane Randolph [I2862]
      3. Jefferson, Son [I3652]
      4. Jefferson, Maria Wayles
        1. Eppes, John Wayles [I2857]
          1. Eppes, Francis Wayles [I2855]
          2. Eppes, Martha Jefferson [I4243]
          3. Eppes, John [I4244]
          4. Eppes, Sarah [I4375]
      5. Jefferson, Lucy Elizabeth [I3511]
      6. Jefferson, Lucy Elizabeth [I2863]

Ancestors

Source References

  1. Ancestry.com: One World Tree (sm) [S3462]
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        Online publication - Ancestry.com. OneWorldTree [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc.

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        Online publication - Ancestry.com. OneWorldTree [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc.

      • Source text:

        Online publication - Ancestry.com. OneWorldTree [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc.

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        Online publication - Ancestry.com. OneWorldTree [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc.

  2. Maria Wayles married her cousin . [S0039]