After marrying in 1868 and moving to Tennessee with her minister husband Jordan Winston Early, she was principal of schools in four cities.

Early served as national superintendent (1888–1892) of the black division of the Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU), and gave more than 100 lectures across five states.

Her father and some brothers became black nationalists, which influenced Sarah Woodson's political views as an adult.

[3] Additionally, Berlin Crossroads was a prominent spot on the Underground Railroad, with the Woodson's opening their home to many runaway slaves.

[4] Woodson's father believed that he was the oldest son of Sally Hemings and President Thomas Jefferson; this tradition became part of the family's oral history.

To Foster's surprise, individuals who he did not know took control of the public announcement of the DNA report, when he thought it was still a secret.

The Gibbons letter rises to the level of distinct and independent evidence, because it gives some information that Callender did not provide.

Pulitzer-prize winners Dumas Malone and Joseph Ellis also wrote errant histories in this space.

Thomas Woodson was born in 1790 and this time also matches the year of birth for the son named Tom attributed to Sally Hemings by James Callender.

[10] In 1839, Sarah Woodson joined the African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME), founded in 1816 as the first independent black denomination in the United States.

In the decade before the Civil War no other state in the nation supported the education of black students as robustly as Ohio.

Before and after graduation from Oberlin, Woodson taught in black 'common schools' in towns such as Circleville and Zanesville for a few years.

It lost most of its nearly 200 subscription students at the beginning of the war, as they were mostly mixed-race children of wealthy planters from the South, who withdrew them at that time.

[15] During the war, the Cincinnati Methodist Conference could not offer its previous level of financial support, as it was called to care for soldiers and families.

[17] Woodson left Ohio to teach in a new school for black girls established by the Freedmen's Bureau in Hillsboro, North Carolina.

On September 24, 1868, Woodson, then aged 42, married the Reverend Jordan Winston Early, an AME minister who had risen from slavery.

[18] In 1888, Woodson Early was elected for a four-year term as national superintendent of the Colored Division of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU).

[24] C-SPAN Book TV Video - https://www.c-span.org/video/?165070-1/a-president-family Links for the Sally Hemings movie, on YouTube, which is in two parts.