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Sarah Knox Taylor
daughter of US President Zachary Taylor, wife of the President of the Confederate States of America (1814-1835)
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daughter of US President Zachary Taylor, wife of the President of the Confederate States of America (1814-1835)
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Sarah Knox Davis 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. They married in 1835 and she died three months later of malaria.