Zachary Taylor
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Zachary Taylor was the 12th president of the United States, serving from 1849 until his death in 1850. Before his presidency, Taylor was a career officer in the United States Army, rising to the rank
Taylor c. 1843–45
Taylor by Joseph Henry Bush, c. 1848
Taylor's childhood home in Louisville, Kentucky
Illustration of Taylor's Cypress Grove Plantation on the Mississippi River
Sarah Knox Davis
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Sarah Knox Davis was the daughter of the 12th U.S. president Zachary Taylor and part of the notable Lee family. She met future Confederate president Jefferson Davis when living with her father and fam
Zachary Taylor
…Wood, acting Commissioner of the North-West Mounted Police and Commissioner of Yukon Territory. Charles Carroll Wood, Lieutenant with the British Army. Sarah Knox "Knoxie" Taylor (1814–1835), married Jefferson Davis in 1835, a subordinate officer she had met through her father at the end of the Black Hawk War; she died at 21 of…
Sarah Knox Taylor, age 16