Septimia Anne Randolph Meikleham

(1814-1887)

BIRTH

1814

PLACE

Monticello, Albemarle County, Virginia

NAME

Septimia Anne Randolph

DEATH

September 14, 1887

PLACE

Washington, D.C.

FAMILY

BROTHER

Thomas Jefferson Randolph

(1792-1875)

CHILDREN

Patsy Jefferson Randolph

(1772-1836)

HOMES

NICKNAMES

Tim; Pet

RELIGIOUS VIEWS

RELIGION NOT DOCUMENTED

DENOMINATION NOT DOCUMENTED

MEMBERSHIPS

AWARDS

Septimia Anne Randolph Meikleham was born at Monticello in 1814, the youngest daughter of Martha Jefferson Randolph and Thomas Mann Randolph. She later studied in Boston and Washington and traveled south for her health. She married physician David Scott Meikleham in 1838 and lived in Havana before settling in New York. Widowed in 1849, she ran a boardinghouse to support her children. Her letters survive in family archives. She died in Washington in 1887.

HOMEMAKERWIFE

EARLY LIFE

The exact date and place of Septimia Randolph Meikleham’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 Septimia Randolph Meikleham 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

Septimia Randolph Meikleham died on September 14, 1887, in Washington, D.C. A granddaughter of Thomas Jefferson, she had spent much of her later life facing the practical demands of widowhood and supporting her children. The supplied family biography records that she ran a boardinghouse after her husband's death and at times traveled south for her health. Those references establish concern about her health, but do not identify the illness that ended her life or show that an earlier health journey formed part of one continuous terminal decline. No dependable account of her final symptoms, treatment, attendants, or last words has been established in the material reviewed. The linked general biography now resolves to her mother, Martha Jefferson Randolph; its account of an 1836 death at Edgehill concerns a different woman. Septimia's own death in 1887 must remain separate from that earlier family death. The date and Washington location are the firmest available framework for her final days, with the medical circumstances left open.

Thomas Jefferson's Monticello

1050 Monticello Loop, Charlottesville, VA 22902