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Saturday, March 19, 2022

President Zachary Taylor's Children-- Part 1

From Find-A-Grave.

ZACHARY TAYLOR

BIRTH:  24 November 1784  Orange, Virginia

DEATH:  9 July 1850 (age 65)

BURIAL: Zachary Taylor National Cemetery, Louisville, Kentucky

He was the last U.S. President to own slaves while in office.

His youngest child and only son, Richard Taylor, was a Confederate general during the Civil War and his second child, Sarah Knox  Taylor, married future Confederate President Jefferson Davis in 1835, but died of malaria shortly after their marriage.

--Old Secesh


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