Mary Jefferson Randolph
(1803-1876)
BIRTH
November 2, 1803
PLACE
DEATH
1876
PLACE
FAMILY
SISTER
Martha Jefferson
(1748-1782)
SISTER
Ann Cary Randolph Bankhead
(1791-1826)
BROTHER
Thomas Jefferson Randolph
(1792-1875)
SISTER
Ellen Wayles Randolph Coolidge
(1796-1876)
SISTER
Cornelia Jefferson Randolph
(1799-1871)
SISTER
Virginia Jefferson Randolph Trist
(1801-1882)
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
RELIGIOUS VIEWS
RELIGION NOT DOCUMENTED
DENOMINATION NOT DOCUMENTED
MEMBERSHIPS
AWARDS
Mary Jefferson Randolph (1803–1876) was Martha and Thomas Mann Randolph’s seventh child and Thomas Jefferson’s granddaughter. Born at Edgehill, she spent time at Monticello and accompanied Jefferson to Poplar Forest. She never married and helped her sister-in-law Jane manage Edgehill’s household. With her sister Cornelia, she visited and nursed relatives during illnesses. After the Civil War she moved to a niece’s home in Alexandria, where she died in March 1876.
EARLY LIFE
The exact date and place of Mary Jefferson 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.
Mary Jefferson Randolph helped manage the family household at Edgehill with her sister Jane and cared for younger siblings with Cornelia. In the 1830s and 1840s, Mary and Cornelia operated a school for girls at Edgehill. Her documented work included teaching and sustained household and family care.
CAREER
DEATH
Mary Jefferson Randolph died in 1876. Mary Jefferson Randolph was Martha and Thomas Mann Randolph’s seventh child and Thomas Jefferson’s granddaughter. Born at Edgehill, she spent time at Monticello and accompanied Jefferson to Poplar Forest. She never married and helped her sister-in-law Jane manage Edgehill’s household. With her sister Cornelia, she visited and nursed relatives during illnesses. After the Civil War she moved to a niece’s home in Alexandria, where she died in March 1876. The available account does not establish a medical cause or a dependable sequence of final symptoms and care.
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