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Polk, Sarah Childress, 1803-1891


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    • Childress Polk, Sarah, 1803-1891
    • Polk, J. K., Mrs., 1803-1891
    • Polk, James K., Mrs., 1803-1891
    • Polk, Mrs. (Sarah Childress), 1803-1891

  • Additional Information

    • Birth Date

        1803-09-04

    • Death Date

        1891-08-14

    • Descriptor

        Governors' spouses

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        Presidents' spouses

    • Birth Place

        Murfreesboro (Tenn.)

    • Associated Locale

        Nashville (Tenn.)

    • Associated Locale

        United States

    • Associated Locale

        Winston-Salem (N.C.)

    • Associated Language

        English

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    • Sources

      • found: Sarah Childress Polk, 1997:CIP t.p. (Sarah Childress Polk; First Lady) galley (b. 09-04-1803 in Murfreesboro, Tenn.)
      • found: LC data base, 02-14-97(hdg.: Polk, Sarah Childress, 1803-1891)
      • found: University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Special Collections Library. J.G.M. Ramsey family papers, 1790-1912(Mrs. Polk; Mrs. James K. Polk; , Mrs. J. K. Polk)
      • found: Wikipedia, Dec. 17, 2007(wife of James K. Polk; First Lady of U. S., Mar. 4, 1845 - Mar. 3, 1849; schooled at Salem College in Winston-Salem, N. C.; assumed guardianship of orphaned niece, Sarah Polk Jetton; devout Presbyterian; Sarah Polk; retirement [in] home "Polk Place" in Nashville, [considered] neutral ground during Civil War)
      • found: Greenberg, Amy S. Lady first, 2019:title page (the world of Frist Lady Sarah Polk) page 283 (Sarah Childress, 1803-1891, m. James Knox Polk)
      • found: Wikipedia August 7, 2023:Sarah Childress Polk (September 4, 1803 - August 14, 1891) was the first lady of the United States from 1845 to 1849. She was the wife of the 11th president of the United States, James K. Polk. Sarah Childress was born in 1803 to Elizabeth Whitsitt and Joel Childress, a prominent planter, merchant, and land speculator-the third of their six children. She was well educated for a woman of her time and place, attending the exclusive Moravians' Salem Academy in Winston-Salem, North Carolina in 1817, one of the few institutions of higher learning available to women in the early 19th century. Polk died on August 14, 1891, at age 87, less than a month before her 88th birthday. She was buried next to her husband originally at their home in Nashville and was later reinterred with him at the Tennessee State Capitol when Polk Place was demolished in 1901.) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Childress_Polk

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    • Change Notes

      • 1997-02-14: new
      • 2023-08-08: revised

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