Sarah "Sallie" Polk Jetton Fall was a grand niece of eleventh Presisdent James Knox. She was the unofficially adopted daughter of former First Lady Sarah Childress Polk. Sallie's mother died when she was only a few months old; she lived with her great-grandmother, who gave Sallie to her daughter Sarah after the death of Sarah's husband President James K. Polk.
Sallie was raised at the Polks' private residence, Polk Place. She married George Fall in 1865, and they had a daughter Saidee. Sallie inherited the Polk estate upon Sarah's death in 1891. Shortly before Sallie died in 1924, she and her daughter co-founded the James K. Polk Memorial Association. In 1929 Saidee worked with the state of Tennessee to acquire the president's home in Columbia which was then opened to the public as a museum.
