Lucy Jefferson

Lucy Jefferson (October 10, 1752-1811), also known as Lucy Jefferson Lewis, was the sister of United States President Thomas Jefferson and wife of Charles Lilburn Lewis.
Born in Albemarle County, Virginia, she was the eighth of Peter Jefferson and Jane Randolph Jefferson's 10 children. Jefferson married her first cousin, Dr. Charles Lilburn Lewis, on September 12, 1769. The couple eventually had eight children: Randolph, Isham, Jane Jefferson, Lilburn, Mary Randolph, Lucy B., Martha, and Ann (Nancy). President Jefferson had two children, Lucy Elizabeth Jefferson I (1780-1781) and Lucy Elizabeth Jefferson II (1782-1785), named after his sisters Lucy and Elizabeth.
She died 1811. She was buried on the grounds of the estate, but the estate is now in ruins and her grave is lost.
Commemoration
In Livingston County, a monument honoring Lucy Jefferson Lewis was erected by the Daughters of the American Revolution at the intersection of U.S. Highway 60 and Kentucky state route 137.<ref name="Teitloff"/> A few miles south of the monument, a bridge named in her honor, the Lucy Jefferson Lewis Memorial Bridge, spans the Cumberland River on U.S. Highway 60 at Smithland.<ref name="Teitloff"/>
An obelisk in her memory was placed in the Rocky Hill Cemetery by the local chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, which was called the Lucy Jefferson Lewis chapter.<ref name = "Stewart" />

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