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She was born into an elite planter family and would have been educated at home by her mother, together with her sisters.
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Lucy Jefferson
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Born in Albemarle County, Virginia, she was the eighth of Peter Jefferson and Jane Randolph Jefferson"s 10 children. Their father died when they were young. In Livingston County, a monument honoring Lucy Jefferson Lewis was erected by the Daughters of the American Revolution at the intersection of United States. Route 60 and Kentucky Route 137.
A few miles south of the monument, a bridge named in her honor, the Lucy Jefferson Lewis Memorial Bridge, spans the Cumberland River on United States. Route 60 at Smithland.
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 named for her.
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1810 (aged 57) -
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United States