Sarah Knox Taylor - Vincennes, IN
Posted by: YoSam.
N 38° 41.129 W 087° 31.534
16S E 454289 N 4282007
Presidents to be become family
Waymark Code: WMNC8R
Location: Indiana, United States
Date Posted: 02/12/2015
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County of Marker: Knox County
Location of marker: Park St., Vincennes University Campus, Vincennes
Marker erected by: United Daughters of the Confederacy
Date Marker Erected: 1964
Marker Text:
Two blocks south of this marker
on March 6, 1814, was born
SARAH KNOX TAYLOR
Daughter of
Capt. and Mrs. Zachary TaylorMiss 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.
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