Sarah Knox Taylor

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 States of America.

Marker is on Park Street south of Harrison Street, on the left when traveling south.

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