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From Madison, WI to Memphis, TN

In 1865, after three years in a Wisconsin regiment, Eston Hemings Jefferson‘s son Col. John Wayles Jefferson decided to settle in the rich cotton country he had seen during the war; he became one of the largest cotton brokers in Memphis.

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