Sarah Knox Taylor ~ Vincennes, IN
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N 38° 41.134 W 087° 31.527
16S E 454299 N 4282015
Sarah Knox Taylor Davis died at the age of 21, days short of being married three months.
Waymark Code: WM8CJA
Location: Indiana, United States
Date Posted: 03/12/2010
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Date Marker Erected: 1964
County of Marker: Knox County
Marker Text:
Two blocks south of this marker on March 6, 1814, was born

SARAH KNOX TAYLOR
Daughter of
Capt. and Mrs. Zachary Taylor


Miss Taylor married Lieut. Jefferson Davis at Louisville, Kentucky on June 17, 1835 and died in West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, on September 15, of the same year.


Zachary Taylor subsequently became the twelfth President of the United States and Jefferson Davis the first and only President of the Confederate State of America.

Another subject with many souces. Wikipedia is web link below, and others if you chose to read them available here: The Wedding , Rice , Find a Grave , Locust Grove Cemetery

Group that erected the marker: Erected by the United Daughters of the Confederacy

URL of a web site with more information about the history mentioned on the sign: [Web Link]

Address of where the marker is located. Approximate if necessary:
1st St., & Harrison St.,
Indiana State Historic Site,
Vincennes, IN USA
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