Letter and photograph, 1871.

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Letter and photograph, 1871.

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Consists of a letter from Mrs. R.H. Gillet, Lebanon Springs, N.Y., to Mrs. James K. Polk, Nashville, Tennessee, dated August 6, 1871, announcing that Mrs. Gillet plans to make Nashville her permanent home and enclosing a photograph of her grandson, Ransom H. Gillet, age 5 months.

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Tennessee State Library & Archives, TSLA

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Polk, Sarah Childress, 1803-1891

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Sarah Childress Polk was married to the 11th President of the United States, James Polk. She served as First Lady from 1845 to 1849. Elder daughter of Captain Joel and Elizabeth Childress, Sarah Childress gained something rarer from her father’s wealth. He sent her and her sister away to school, first to Nashville, then to the Moravians’ “female academy” at Salem, North Carolina, one of the very few institutions of higher learning available to women in the early 19th century. So she acquired ...

Gillet, Ransom H., Mrs.

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Gillet, Ransom Hooker, b. 1871.

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