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Hemings Lecture at the
Keeler Tavern Museum

The Keeler Tavern Museum and the Discovery Center
are presenting a lecture by Edna Bolling Jacques on the
Complicated Relations in the Antebellum South:
Illustrated by Using the Slave Laws and My Old Virginia Families -
Bolling, Eppes and Hemings.

Ms. Jacques will speak in the Garden House at the Keeler Tavern Museum,
132 Main Street. Ridgefield on Thursday, April 22nd at 7:00 PM.
Admission is free for members of the Discovery Center and the Keeler Tavern Museum, $7.00 for non-members.

Edna Bolling Jacques is an 11th generation descendant of Pocahontas and a 6th generation descendant of Mary Hemings (1753-1834), Sally Hemings’ oldest sibling. Sally Hemings was the slave mistress of Thomas Jefferson
after the death of his wife Martha Wayles Skelton,
and was Martha’s half sister.

Ms. Jacques is a member of the DAR. In 1960 she became the first minority to work for IBM in Philadelphia and in 1973 became the first woman marketing manager in Philadelphia for IBM’s Data Processing Division. She retired from IBM in 1993 as a Program Director of Standards.

Ms. Jacques is a close friend of Annette Gordon-Reed, author of the award winning The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family.

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