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Margaret Mackall Smith Taylor |
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Margaret (Peggy) was born in Calvert County, Maryland on September 21, 1788.
Her father was a wealthy planter and a former officer in the Revolutionary War. She married Zachary Taylor on June 21, 1810. She never had her picture taken or a painting done of her. They had six children. Two of the girls died young in 1820 of fever. Her daughter Sarah eloped with Jefferson Davis, the future president of the Confederacy. Margaret asked her daughter Betty to act as the hostess at White House events. Her husband died on July 9, 1850. Margaret then left the Whitehouse and never spoke of her time there again. She died on August 18, 1852. She was buried in Louisville, Kentucky.
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