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Added: Mar 1, 2000. Find a Grave Memorial ID: 8627. Source citation. United States First Lady. She was the wife of James K. Polk, the 11th President of the United States. Born on a plantation near Murfreesboro, Tennessee, she was the oldest daughter of Captain Joel and Elizabeth Childress, a prosperous slave-owning planter and merchant.
Sarah Childress Polk (1803–1891) was first lady from 1845 to 1849, during the administration of her husband, James Knox Polk.A fashion trendsetter, she used her keen intelligence, abiding religious faith, pleasant manner, and superb organizational skills to artfully regulate the White House, serve as her husband’s main political partner, and orchestrate an exhausting social schedule of ...
4 de mar. de 2015 · Sarah Childress Polk was born near Nurfreesboro, Rutherford County, Tennessee, September 4, 1803, is the daughter of Joel and Elizabeth Childress. Her father, a farmer in easy circumstances, sent her to the Moravian institute at Salem, North Carolina, where she was educated. On returning home she married Mr. Polk, who was then a member of the ...
For her time, Sarah Childress Polk had an unusual upbringing. She was educated at a girl's academy in South Carolina, which was rare in the early 19th century, and her quick mind served her husband well. She often helped him with his speeches and correspondence, and gave her opinion on political issues.
Sarah Childress’s dowry—when she left her family’s cotton farm near Murfreesboro to marry James K. Polk of Columbia—included ten enslaved people. She and her brother worked behind-the-scenes to buy slaves for James’s Mississippi Delta plantation while he was president, and she became the owner of fifty-six enslaved workers there when James died.
Polk, Sarah Childress (1803–1891) First lady of the U.S. (1845–49), admired for her intelligence and resolve, who held a unique position in the White House as her husband's official confidential secretary. Born Sarah Childress on September 4, 1803, in Murfreesboro, Tennessee; died on August 14, 1891, in Nashville, Tennessee; one of two ...
Clad always in black, Sarah Polk lived on in that home for 42 years, guarding the memory of her husband and accepting honors paid to her as honors due to him. The house became a place of pilgrimage. During the Civil War, Mrs. Polk held herself above sectional strife and received with dignity leaders of both Confederate and Union armies; all respected Polk Place as neutral ground.
