She married her next door neighbour Andrew Jackson Roberts in 1878 and less than a decade later the family left southern Ohio and moved west to Los Angeles. Roberts was born on September 14, 1879, in Chillicothe, Ohio, the son of Andrew Jackson Roberts (1852–1927), a graduate of Oberlin College, and Ellen Wayles Hemings (1856–1940), the daughter of Madison Hemings and Mary Hughes McCoy, a free woman of color. Sep 21, 2015 - Ellen Wayles Hemings, the youngest child of Madison and Mary Hemings, mother of Fredrick Madison Roberts, married her next-door neighbor Andrew Jackson Roberts in 1878.
He is the great-grandson of Hemings, born to Hemings’ grand-daughter, Ellen Wayles Hemings. Roberts was a great-grandson of Sally Hemings of Monticello and President Thomas Jefferson. In 1887 they left southern Ohio for Los Angeles. Her grandchildren revered Ellen Hemings Roberts, who they remember as tall, fair-skinned, and blue-eyed, “very aristocratic” and quiet, but with a sharp wit. The daughter of Madison Hemings, Ellen was 5'10" with blue eyes. Frederick Madison Roberts was a prominent mortician, news editor, school principal, and politician during his time.
Ellen Roberts 1859 Ellen Roberts in Australia, Births and Baptisms, 1792-1981 Ellen Roberts was born on month day 1859, at birth place , to James Roberts and Mary .
Genealogy profile for Andrew J Roberts. The first African-American elected to the California State Assembly was Frederick Madison Roberts in 1918. Ellen Wayles Hemings, pictured, was the granddaughter of Sally Hemings. Roberts’ father established the first black-owned mortuary in the area.
George (Jack) Pettiford insists on serving with blacks in WW II George (Jack) Pettiford’s moment of truth came when he was inducted into the Navy in World War II. Roberts was born in 1879 in Chillicothe, Ohio and was the son of Ellen Wayles Hemings, the granddaughter of Sally Hemings, and Andrew Jackson Roberts. Genealogy for Andrew Jackson Roberts (1852 - 1927) family tree on Geni, with over 190 million profiles of ancestors and living relatives. Madison Hemings' youngest daughter Ellen Wayles Hemings married Andrew Jackson Roberts, a graduate of Oberlin College. They moved from Ohio to Los Angeles, California in 1885 with their first son Frederick, age six. Mary Lee Brady, Ph.D.. Ellen Wayles Hemings was born in 1856 as her father and mother's tenth and last child beginning with the first-born that died in 1836.
Roberts was born on September 14, 1879 in Chillicothe, Ohio, the son of Andrew Jackson Roberts (1852–1927), a graduate of Oberlin College, and Ellen Wayles Hemings (1856–1940), who was a granddaughter of Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson. She married her next door neighbour Andrew Jackson Roberts in 1878 and less than a … That test is debated by some.