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Sarah Knox Davis ( née Taylor; March 6, 1814 – September 15, 1835) was the daughter of the 12th U.S. president Zachary Taylor and part of the notable Lee family. She met future Confederate president Jefferson Davis (1808–1889) when living with her father and family at Fort Crawford during the Black Hawk War in 1832.
28 ott 2014 · Sarah Knox Taylor: The First Mrs. Jeff Davis. Posted on October 28, 2014 by Feather Schwartz Foster. Sarah may have been a tiny little blip in history, but her connections are cool! Sarah Knox Taylor: The Army Brat. General Zachary Taylor, career military officer who came up through the ranks.
On September 15, two days short of their three-month anniversary, Sarah Taylor Davis died. She was buried at "Locust Grove," which is now a state historical site that is open to the public. For more information, see Volume 1 of The Papers of Jefferson Davis.
The only thing he clearly cared about was Sarah Knox Taylor, the daughter of Col. Zachary Taylor, his commanding officer at Ft. Crawford, in Michigan Territory. But Taylor did not want his daughter, “Knox,” to marry a soldier, and one can hardly blame him in Davis’s case.
11 feb 2016 · Born in the Army base in Fort Knox, Kentucky in 1814, Sarah Taylor was nicknamed “Knox” by her father, Zachary Taylor, the career military man who was elected president in 1848.
5 giu 2011 · Only three months earlier Jefferson Davis and Sarah Knox Taylor had pledged their love for one another “until death do us part.” So soon the bride of the storybook romance was dead, the...
11 mag 2015 · In August 1832, near the conclusion of the Black Hawk War, Davis met the colonel’s daughter, 18-year-old Sarah Knox Taylor. The pair fell in love, but for two years Taylor denied Davis...
