At twenty-eight, he married a young widow, Martha Wayles Skelton, who inherited...

At twenty-eight, he married a young widow, Martha Wayles Skelton, who inherited 135 slaves after her father's death. This loving ten-year marriage was marred by childhood mortality-only two of their six children reached maturity-and in September 1782 Martha herself died at thirty-four. Only thirty-nine at the time, Jefferson survived his wife

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