Geneva Jackson

In 2015, when she was 81 and Clermont was celebrating its annual Farm Day, along with the completion of a National Park Service grant to repair the farm’s 1823 slave quarter, Geneva Jackson was interviewed by the Winchester Star. Her connection was both to that building and to the kitchen building, which served from 1777 to 1971. At age 15, already known for her cooking, she was employed by Admiral and Mrs. John Beardall (Edith McCormick, one of four McCormick siblings to jointly inherit the farm) as the family cook at Clermont.