Thomas Jefferson Family Cemetery

Thomas Jefferson Family Cemetery

Monticello

Albemarle Co, VA

It sits behind and slightly down the mountain, hidden from the plantation's daily life. Something of a disappointment was the fact that the locked wrought iron fence prohibited visitors from paying homage to the great man and his family. Somehow it felt as if we were being banned from his world. Opening a supervised cemetery to paying guests is certainly something that this century's caretakers of Monticello should consider. Thomas Jefferson belongs to his United States of America for time eternal. Cemetery Photographed June 29, 2004.

The Monticello Graveyard

This graveyard had its beginning in an agreement between two young men, Thomas Jefferson and Dabney Carr, who were school-mates and friends. They agreed that they would be buried under a great oak which stood here. Carr, who married Jefferson's sister, died in 1773. His was the first grave on the site, which Jefferson laid out as a family burial ground. Jefferson was buried here in 1826. The present monument is not the original, designed by Jefferson, but a larger one erected by the United States in 1883. Its base covers the graves of Jefferson, his wife, his two daughters and of Governor Thomas Mann Randolph, his son-in-law. The graveyard remains the property of Jefferson's descendants and continues to be a family burial ground.

Location & Name	Birth - Death	Relationship to Jefferson
1. Anne Cary Bankhead	1791 - 1826	Granddaughter
2. George Wythe Randolph	1818 - 1867	Grandson
3. Mary Adams Randolph	1830 - 1871	Grandson's Wife
4. Martha Jefferson Randolph	1772 - 1836	Daughter
5. Maria Jefferson Eppes	1778 - 1804	Daughter
6. Thomas Jefferson	1743 - 1826
7. Martha Wayles Jefferson	1748 - 1782	Wife
8. Thomas Mann Randoph	1768 - 1828	Son-in-Law
9. Mary Buchanan Randolph	1818 - 1821	Great-Granddaughter
10. Mary Jefferson Randolph	1803 - 1876	Granddaughter
11. Cornelia Jefferson Randolph	1799 - 1871	Granddaughter
12. James Madison Randolph	1806 - 1834	Grandson
13. Martha Jefferson Carr	1746 - 1811	Sister
14. Dabney Carr	1743 - 1773	Friend, Brother-in-Law
15. Samuel Carr	1771 - 1855	Nephew
16. Jane Randolph Jefferson	1720 - 1776	Mother
17. William Jefferson Cary	1784 - 1823	Great-Nephew
18. William Mortimer Harrison	1802 - 1812	Cousin, Drowned
19. Wilson Cary Nicholas	1761 - 1820	Grandson's Father-in-Law

Here Was Buried
Thomas Jefferson
Author of the
Declaration
of
American Independence
of the
Statute of Virginia
for
Religious Freedom
and Father of the
University of Virginia

Thomas Jefferson

Born April 2, 1743 O. S.

Died July 4, 1826

Here Lies Buried
George Wythe Randolph
Son of Thomas Mann Randolph & Martha Jefferson
Born March 10, 1818
Died April 3, 1867

Mary Adams,
Wife of Gen. George W. Randolph
Born 1830
Died 1871

Here lie the remains of
Dabney Carr
Son of John & Barbara Carr
of Louisa County, VA
Born October 26, 1743
Intermarried on July 20, 1765 with Martha Jefferson,
Daughter of Peter & Jane Randolph Jefferson
Died May 16, 1773
at Charlottesville, Virginia

Jane Randolph

Wife of Peter Jefferson

Mother of Thomas Jefferson

Born in London

1720

Died at Monticello

1776

Elizabeth Ann

Wife of John B. Garrett

Died May 19th, 1845

Aged 34 Years

John B. Garrett

February 14, 1809

July 27, 1855

Francis Wayles Shine, M. D.

June 25, 1874

September 24, 1941

Son of Martha Virginia Eppes

and Thomas J. Shine

Great Great Grandson of

Thomas Jefferson

They were lovely in their lives

Thomas Jefferson Randolph & Jane Hollins Nicholas Married March 7, 1815

He was the son of Thomas Mann Randolph & Martha Jefferson and the grandson of Thomas Jefferson. She was the daughter of Wilson Cary Nicholas & Margaret Smith. She was born January 16, 1798 and died January 18, 1871.