What is Martha Jefferson?
{{Infobox First Lady | name = Martha Jefferson | image = Martha Jefferson.jpg | image_size = 150px | birth_date = {{birth date|1748|10|30}} | birth_place = [[Charles City, Virginia|Charles City]], [[Colony of Virginia]], [[British America]] | death_date = {{death date and age|1782|09|06|1748|10|30}} | death_place = [[Charlottesville, Virginia]], United States of America | order1=[[First Lady]] of [[Virginia]] | term_start1=June 1, 1779 | term_end1=June 3, 1781 | predecessor1 = Dorothea Henry | successor1 = Anne Fleming | religion= | spouse = Bathurst Skelton (1766–1768) <br /> [[Thomas Jefferson]] (1772–1782; her death) | children =John (1767–1771)<br />[[Martha Jefferson Randolph|Martha]] (1772–1836)<br />Jane (1774–1775)<br />Peter (1777)<br />[[Mary Jefferson Eppes|Polly]] (1778–1804)<br />Lucy Elizabeth (1780–1781)<br />Lucy Elizabeth (1782–1784) | relations = | signature = }} '''Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson''', born '''Martha Wayles''' (October 30, 1748 – September 6, 1782) was the only wife of her second husband, [[Thomas Jefferson]]. She was a [[widow]] at her second wedding, as her first husband had died young. When her second husband, Jefferson, was [[Governor of Virginia]], she served as First Lady of Virginia from 1779 to 1781. [[The Jeffersons]] had six children together. Only two daughters survived to adulthood, and only one past the age of 25. Weakened by childbirth, Martha Jefferson died several months after the birth of her last child, twenty years before her husband became the third [[President of the United States]]. At her wishes, he never married again. ==Other websites== * [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifsFKepTCQ4 Colonial Williamsburg: Interview of Martha Jefferson], YouTube * [http://wiki.monticello.org/mediawiki/index.php/Martha_Wayles_Skelton_Jefferson Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090307011011/http://wiki.monticello.org/mediawiki/index.php/Martha_Wayles_Skelton_Jefferson |date=2009-03-07 }}, Monticello: For acc