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Eston's second son Beverley Jefferson also served in the regular Union Army.

After operating the American Hotel with his brother John, he later separately operated the Capital Hotel.

He also built a successful horse-drawn " omnibus " business.

He and his wife Anna M. Smith had five sons, two of whom reached the professional class as a physician and an attorney.

According to his 1908 obituary, Beverly Jefferson was " a likeable character at the Wisconsin capital, and a familiar of statesmen for half a century ".

His friend Augustus J. Munson wrote, " Beverly Jefferson death deserves more than a passing notice, as he was a grandson of Thomas Jefferson ... was one of God's noblemen-gentle, kind, courteous, charitable.

" Beverley and Anna's great-grandson John Weeks Jefferson was the Eston Hemings descendant whose DNA was tested in 1998 ; it matched the Y-chromosome of the Thomas Jefferson male line.