Sarah Knox Taylor
Sarah Knox Taylor (June 3rd 1814 with Vincennes (Indiana) - September 15th 1835 with St Francisville (Louisiana)) was the girl of Zachary Taylor, future President of the United States of America.
Living with Meadow of the Dog (Wisconsin) where his/her father orders Fort Crawford and fights the Indian chief Black Hawk, Sarah meets and fall in love with the second from her father, Jefferson Davis, future President of the confederated States of America. Davis is then a young person lieutenant coldly émoulu of the Military academy of West Point.
Taylor admires Davis for her warlike talents, but is opposed to its idylle. He and his wife, whose elder one married a military surgeon Robert C. Wood and raises three young children in a military station advanced on the frontier , feels that the life of the army of the frontier will be too hard for Sarah.
Yielding with the sights of Taylor, Davis resigns of the army and wife Miss Taylor the June 17th 1835 in the house of her aunt close to Louisville (Kentucky). The two young grooms contract the Malaria whereas they return visit to the sister of Davis, Anna Smith, with Locust Grove close to St Francisville in Louisiana. September 15th, less than three months after their marriage, Sarah Taylor Davis dies. She rests with Locust Grove , which is today a historic site of the state.
Davis is devastated by the death of his young wife, like are her parents. Its death causes a great enmity between them which will be alleviated by a meeting between Davis and Taylor, in 1845, on a vapor of the the Mississippi.
Being restored her own disease and seeking to forget the loss of his wife, Davis embarks for Havana with Cuba then for New York. In 1836, it withdraws with Brierfield Plantation in the Comté of Warren (the Mississippi).
Davis remarie in 1845, and is distinguished at the time of the américano-Mexican Guerre in particular with the Bataille of Buena Vista, the Colonel Davis is there again under the orders of her ex-beautiful-father, Zachary Taylor. It becomes later Senator the Mississippi, Ministre for the war and finally President of the confederated States of America in 1861.
Sources
- The North Carolina booklet : Oct. 1920, Jan. - Apr. 1921, vol. XX, our. 2,3,4. ; Raleigh: Daughters off the Revolution, North Carolina Society, 1921.
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