Virginia Jefferson Randolph Trist

(1801-1882)

BIRTH

1801

PLACE

NAME

Virginia Jefferson Randolph

DEATH

April 1882

PLACE

FAMILY

BROTHER

Thomas Jefferson Randolph

(1792-1875)

SISTER

Septimia Anne Randolph Meikleham

(1814-1887)

CHILDREN

Patsy Jefferson Randolph

(1772-1836)

HOMES

RELIGIOUS VIEWS

RELIGION NOT DOCUMENTED

DENOMINATION NOT DOCUMENTED

MEMBERSHIPS

AWARDS

Virginia Jefferson Randolph Trist (1801–1882) was a granddaughter of Thomas Jefferson who shared his love of music. She married Nicholas Philip Trist at Monticello in 1824 and had three children. Jefferson gave her a guitar and later bought her a pianoforte. After Nicholas lost his diplomatic post following the Mexican peace negotiations, she and his sisters tried unsuccessfully to run a girls’ school. She later lived in Alexandria and outlived her husband.

HOMEMAKERWIFE

EARLY LIFE

The exact date and place of Virginia Jefferson Randolph Trist’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 Virginia Jefferson Randolph Trist 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

Virginia Jefferson Randolph Trist died on Apr 1882. Virginia Jefferson Randolph Trist was a granddaughter of Thomas Jefferson who shared his love of music. She married Nicholas Philip Trist at Monticello in 1824 and had three children. Jefferson gave her a guitar and later bought her a pianoforte. After Nicholas lost his diplomatic post following the Mexican peace negotiations, she and his sisters tried unsuccessfully to run a girls’ school. She later lived in Alexandria and outlived her husband. The available account does not establish a medical cause or a dependable sequence of final symptoms and care.

Thomas Jefferson's Monticello

1050 Monticello Loop, Charlottesville, VA 22902