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Sarah N. Randolph to Robert Coulton Davis, 5 Sept. 1877

Your letter of the 3d was received to-day and I hasten to write and thank you for sending me the enclosed slips containing a copy of my great-grandmothers letter. I am afraid from Mrs Smith’s letter that neither “love nor money” could ever get the original from her for you. There is just a bare...

Virginia J. Randolph Trist to Virginia Randolph Burke, 1 Mar. [ca. 1880]

You have been sadly neglected my darling children, since Poor Harry’s illness. We felt so anxious & unhappy about him that no one had the heart to write. Now he is improving steadily & sent his love to every body in his mother’s last letter. She is charmed with the whole family of Jone’s,...

Martha J. Trist Burke’s Extract of a Letter from Mary Elizabeth Randolph Eppes, [ca. 1888]

Extract from a letter written by Elizabeth Eppes—wife of Frances Eppes. to aunt Jane (Mrs T. J. Randolph of “Edgehill.”) July 7th 1828. “Poplar Forest” Speaking of life at Monticello “before death had changed those scenes of peace & happiness I have ever felt cheered & enlivened in my...

Martha J. Trist Burke to Ella Thurman Pratt, enclosing “Monticello ‘child Life’—memories of what we heard from our parents,” [before 5 July 1888]

My cousin Mrs Harrison, begs me to add some of my “memories” of what I have heard, from my mother & aunts on the subject of their child life at “Monticello”

Martha J. Trist Burke’s Transcript of Ellen W. Randolph Harrison’s anecdotes of “Child Life” at Monticello, [before 5 July 1888]

“As Jefferson’s daughters were both married before his 1st Presidential term, it is his grandchildren who appear on the roll of the “Children of the White House”; and in the roll of “children of his old age” we find the children of “Dear Patsey” Mrs T. M. Randolph and her chivalerous lover like...

Martha J. Trist Burke’s “Relics from ‘Monticello,’” 9 Aug. 1888

Relics from “Monticello” 1st The old french clock supported between black marble Obelisks. This clock was brought from France by Thomas Jefferson, and stood always near the head of his bed on a wooden bracket which is at Edgehill. When the sale of Mr Jefferson’s personal property took place at ...

Martha J. Trist Burke’s Notes on the Name of Jefferson in Virginia’s Colonial History, [ca. 1888]

First mention of the name Jefferson in Colonial Virginia” x x x x x x The first time that the name of Jefferson appears in any record of the affairs of Virginia which happens at as early a period at as twelve years after the settlement of the Colony. It was known that a house of Burgesses had...

Martha J. Trist Burke’s other “Relics” and Reminiscences of Monticello, April 1889

There are several other relics small & insignificant in themselves but valuable as having belonged to “Thomas Jefferson” A silver stock buckle”—a pair of shoe buckles of steel, a pair of silver shoe buckles with small crystals set in them, and a stock buckle to match: this buckle he was...

Martha J. Trist Burke’s Notes on Relics of Thomas Jefferson, 12–13 Jan. 1896

Small Articles of Jewellery & other relics of Thomas Jefferson. 1 stock buckle & small pair of shoe buckles of “Paste” or crystal set in silver, the stock buckle he was wearing at the time of his death, 1 Silver stock Buckle— 1 Silver pencil case made to hold a cedar pencil, & with a ...

Martha J. Trist Burke’s Extract of an Obituary and Notes on Thomas Mann Randolph, 16 July 1896

Obituary written by “Alexander Garrett” of Charlottesville Va & published in “Richmond Enquirer” June 1828 On the 20th Instant at “Monticello,” died in the 60th year of his age, Thomas Mann Randolph late Governor of Virginia. In death, as in life, the same fearless, intrepid individual. Mute...

Martha J. Trist Burke’s List of Trist Family Relics, with Notes, 20 June 1901

List of silver made June 20th 1901—Copied from a list made April 20th 1891. revised & added to. my grand mother’s 2d husband, who requested that my father “Nicholas Trist” should take his name “Philip” which he did, Mr Jones left him all of his silver among other things a very handsome &...

Martha J. Trist Burke’s Notes on Trist Family History, [ca. 1888–1901]

My great grandfather “Nicholas Trist,” (Son of Browse & Elizabeth Trist of the town of Devonshire England) came to America during the Revolution, and was Lieutenant in the “Royal Irish” of which his brother Browse Trist was Col at Bunker Hill My great grandfather married in Phila a Miss ...

Ann C. Randolph Bankhead
Ann Cary Morris
Elizabeth Trist
Ellen W. Randolph Coolidge
Etienne St. Julien de Tournillon
Francis Eppes
George Wythe Randolph
Jane H. Nicholas Randolph
John Hemmings
John Wayles Eppes
John Wayles Eppes, Jr.
Joseph Coolidge
Maria Jefferson Eppes
Martha Jefferson Randolph
Mary J. Randolph
Meriwether L. Randolph
Nicholas P. Trist
Thomas Jefferson Randolph
Thomas Mann Randolph
Virginia J. Randolph Trist
Cornelia J. Randolph

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