[Bubba Ho-Tep]

Besides the DNA article, there was Fawn Brodie's book about Jefferson, and much earlier, an 1873 newspaper article in Ohio based on information from Madison Hemings, one of Sally's children, in which Madison alleged that Jefferson was his father.

There are records of the rumor going back to 1802. In 1811, a school headmaster who visited Jefferson wrote in his diary that day, "The story of black Sal is no farce—That he cohabits with her and has a number of children by her is a sacred truth—and the worst of it is he keeps the same children slaves—an unnatural crime which is very common in these parts."

[Verginius Rufus]

Hadn’t heard of that diary entry. Sally was apparently the half-sister of Jefferson long-dead wife. I think all of her children were freed in his will, but not Sally herself.