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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.
Oct 28, 2014 · Sarah Knox Taylor (1814-35) was born and raised in the U.S. Army. Called “Knox” by the family (for her birth at Ft. Knox which was then in Indiana), she was the second daughter born to the Taylors. They would have six children, four living to maturity: three daughters and a son.
Jun 5, 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...
Feb 11, 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.
Aug 14, 2020 · Compare DNA and explore genealogy for Sarah (Taylor) Davis born 1814 Vincennes, Indiana died 1835 St. Francisville, Louisiana including ancestors + 4 photos + DNA connections + more in the free family tree community.
Sarah Knox Taylor, the daughter of future president Zachary Taylor and Margaret Mackall Smith Taylor, was born at Fort Knox in Vincennes, Indiana, in either 1813 or 1814 (probably the latter), and was named for her paternal grandmother and for the fort where she was born.
Sarah Knox Taylor Davis, wife of Jefferson Davis, is buried in Locust Grove Historical Cemetery in West Feliciana Parish. Sadly, after less than three months of marriage, Jefferson and Sarah were visiting Jefferson's sister at Locust Grove plantation when both contracted malaria.
Another daughter, Sarah Knox Taylor, married the young Mississippian who would become the president of the Confederacy and who served under Taylor in Mexico—Jefferson Davis. Sarah tragically died from cholera just two months after her wedding.
May 11, 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 permission...
Jun 5, 2011 · A portrait of Sarah Knox Taylor, Jefferson Davis’ first wife, hangs in the Jefferson Davis room at the Old Court House Museum.
