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Sarah Childress was born on September 4, 1803, to Elizabeth and Joel Childress and grew up on a plantation near Murfreesboro, Tennessee....
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This previously unpublished photograph of the interior of Polk Place was taken near the time of Sarah Polk’s death in 1891. A number of furnishings depicted in this image, such as the mahogany coat rack, are now in the collection of the James K. Polk Ancestral Home.
Sarah Childress was born on September 4, 1803, to Elizabeth and Joel Childress and grew up on a plantation near Murfreesboro, Tennessee....
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On November 2, 1795, James K. Polk was born in Pineville, North Carolina to Samuel and Jane Polk. The promise of greater...
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