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Sarah Childress Polk |
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| Index for First Ladies Martha Washington |
Sarah Childress was born on September 4, 1803 in Murfreesboro, TN.
She attended a boarding school and then went to the Moravian Female Academy in Salem, North Carolina. Sarah met James Knox Polk in 1821. He proposed to her in 1823. The Polk's had no children. The election of 1844 was very bitter. James Polk was very unpopular with some people in Washington. She was Presbyterian and very religious. She did not allow card playing or dancing in the White House. Mr. Polk became ill while on tour of the Eastern States. He had cholera. He died from this disease on June 15, 1849. Mrs. Polk died on August 14, 1891. She was 87. She is buried next to her husband in Nashville, TN.
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