Levy Gravesite
Albermarle County, Virginia

(from marker graveside) Monticello and the Levy Family
This is the grave of Rachel Phillips Levy(1769-1839), daughter of Jonas and Rebecca Machado Phillips of Philadelphia, and mother of Commodore Uriah P. Levy, USN(1792-1862), who purchased Monticello in 1836. An ardent admirer of Thomas Jefferson, Commodore Levy believed that the houses of great men should be preserved as "monuments to their glory," and he bequeathed Monticello in his will to the "People of the United States." The governement relinquished its claim to the estate, however, and litigation over the will deprived Monticello for seventeen years of an owner to care for it. In 1879, Jefferson Monroe Levy(1852-1924), who shared his uncle Uriah's admiration for Jefferson, gained clear title to Monticello and began to make badly needed repairs. After adding considerable land from the original Monticello tract, he sold the house and 662 acres to the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation in 1923. At two crucial periods in the history of Monticello, the preservation efforts and stewardship of Uriah P. and Jefferson M. Levy successfully maintained the property for future generations.

Location: near the gardens which are near the main house at Monticello
Visited: 2004
To the memory of Rachel Phillips Levy
Born in New York 23 of May 1769.
Married 1787.
Died 7 of IYAR (May) 5591 A.B. (1839) At Monticello, VA.
Erected August 15, 1859 by her Son, JPL
(slab below also contains: Re-erected by her grandson LNL)


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