Ellen Wayles Randolph Coolidge
(1796-1876)
BIRTH
October 1796
PLACE
Monticello, Albemarle County, Virginia, United States
DEATH
April 21, 1876
PLACE
Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, United States
FAMILY
SISTER
Martha Jefferson
(1748-1782)
SISTER
Ann Cary Randolph Bankhead
(1791-1826)
BROTHER
Thomas Jefferson Randolph
(1792-1875)
SISTER
Cornelia Jefferson Randolph
(1799-1871)
SISTER
Virginia Jefferson Randolph Trist
(1801-1882)
SISTER
Mary Jefferson Randolph
(1803-1876)
BROTHER
James Madison Randolph
(1806-1834)
BROTHER
Meriwether Lewis Randolph
(1810-1837)
SISTER
Septimia Anne Randolph Meikleham
(1814-1887)
BROTHER
George Wythe Randolph
(1818-1867)
CHILDREN
Thomas Mann Randolph Jr.
(1768-1828)
CHILDREN
Patsy Jefferson Randolph
(1772-1836)
HOMES
NICKNAMES
Ellen
RELIGIOUS VIEWS
RELIGION NOT DOCUMENTED
DENOMINATION NOT DOCUMENTED
MEMBERSHIPS
AWARDS
Ellen Wayles Randolph Coolidge (1796–1876) was a granddaughter of Thomas Jefferson and an accomplished student of languages. She married merchant Joseph Coolidge at Monticello in 1825 and moved to Boston, raising six children while his business often kept him abroad. During an extended visit to London in 1838 she recorded people, places and social life in a surviving journal. She later lived in Europe, returned to Boston and was buried at Mount Auburn Cemetery.
EARLY LIFE
The exact date and place of Ellen Wayles Randolph’s birth have not been established in the source used for this entry. The surviving biographical summary provides only limited evidence about childhood, schooling, and the daily circumstances of the household, so those details are not reconstructed here without documentation. What can be stated securely is that this person belonged to the interconnected family world from which HistoryGPS traces participants, relatives, and later descendants of the Revolutionary generation.
No distinct public profession or office for Ellen Wayles Randolph is established by the source summary used for this entry. The surviving record is primarily genealogical and documents family identity rather than an independent public career. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.
CAREER
DEATH
Ellen Wayles Randolph died on Apr 21, 1876, in Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, United States. Ellen Wayles Randolph Coolidge was a granddaughter of Thomas Jefferson and an accomplished student of languages. She married merchant Joseph Coolidge at Monticello in 1825 and moved to Boston, raising six children while his business often kept him abroad. During an extended visit to London in 1838 she recorded people, places and social life in a surviving journal. She later lived in Europe, returned to Boston and was buried at Mount Auburn Cemetery. The available account does not establish a medical cause or a dependable sequence of final symptoms and care.
MUSEUM
Thomas Jefferson's Monticello
1050 Monticello Loop, Charlottesville, VA 22902
POPULAR BIOGRAPHIES
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