Letter : Murfreesboro, Tenn., to Maj. [John C.] Smith, 1863 Sept. 1.

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Letter : Murfreesboro, Tenn., to Maj. [John C.] Smith, 1863 Sept. 1.

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Miss Jetton requests pass to visit relatives near Murfreesboro; mentions she is with her aunt, Mrs. James K. Polk.

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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 ...

Fall, Sarah Polk Jetton, 1847-1924

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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...