The third President of the USA was Thomas Jefferson and ran the White House from March 1801 to March 1809. Nevertheless, Thomas was the Vice President to John Adams from 1797 to 1801 and the United State Secretary to George Washington from 1790 to 1793. A little bit about the background of his life – Thomas was the third child of ten children in the family. Thomas’s father, Peter was a planter and surveyor and his mother, Jane came from the Randolph family who ran the plantation under Jane’s father, Isham Randolph – a mariner and a planter born in Virginia, USA, a merchant, a public official, and a shipmaster. Note Isham Randolph was the grandfather of Thomas Jefferson. Peter and Jane have got ten children. Thomas married Martha Wayles Skelton, and they had got six children. There was possible evidence that Thomas had an affair with Sarah (Sally) Hemings who was an enslaved lady with a mixture of races owned by Thomas and they have got extra six children between Thomas and Sarah. One of the daughter by Thomas and his wife – Martha, was Martha (the eldest child of the six children) born 1772 and died 1836.

Right, Martha as she was called ‘Pasty’, married her third cousin – Thomas Mann Randolph in 1790 in Monticello and they have got eleven children. They did not have a perfect family lives, and Pasty was separate from her husband. After her father – Thomas, died and in 1826, the family forced to sell Monticello and moved to Tufton with her eldest son – Thomas Jefferson Randolph.

One of the eleven children, Virginia born 1801 in Monticello, the plantation home of her grandfather Thomas Jefferson. She was the sixth child in the family. Virginia met her future husband – Nicholas Phillip Trist after a long romance. Nicholas Trist was the grandson of an old friend Thomas Jefferson. They have got three children – Martha, Hore Browse and Thomas. Virginia died 1882.

Thomas Jefferson Randolph Trist born 1828 and died in 1890. Thomas J. R. Trist went to New York School for the Deaf, and he graduated in 1855 to become a teacher at the Pennsylvania School for the Deaf, 1855-1890. He married twice – his first wife was Ellen D. S. Lyman and his second wife were Sophia K. Knabe. His first wife Ellen died young, so Thomas remarried to Sophia. They have got one daughter – Sophie Knabe Trist. So Thomas J. R. Trist was a deaf-mute person.

So what amazing to find more information about any Deaf person who was linked to any President of the USA! Perhaps any Deaf person under the President’s families may use their first language – American Sign Language or oral.