By his first wife, Martha Eppes, he had a daughter, also named Martha, who in 1772, married Thomas Jefferson. After John Wayles buried his first wife Martha in 1748, he married Tabitha Cocke ...

I mean, he’s awkward." Jefferson would go on to marry Martha Wayles Skelton, a young widow, in 1772, and they had six children together, only two of whom survived to adulthood. Ten years later ...