... the duration of the rest of his life. The rumor was resurrected in 1873 when one of Sally Hemings" sons, Madison, claimed in a newspaper conference that he and his sister Harriet and two brothers, Beverley and Eston, were Jefferson's children. In 1998, DNA testing on the offspring of Jefferson's uncle, Field Jefferson, ... paternity believable, but whether possible claimants are able to set up that they are lineal descendants of Thomas Jefferson. That is a lawful question and must be tested by legal rules of evidence, irrespective of the passage of time. After the DNA tests, the Thomas J...

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