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Sarah Polk Jetton Fall (April 1, 1847 – July 22, 1924) was a wealthy Nashville socialite and philanthropist. She was the great-niece and unofficially adopted daughter of former First Lady Sarah Childress Polk. Sallie's mother died when she was only a few months old.
After her husband's death, Sarah would foster her great-niece, Sarah Polk Fall (1847–1924). Years of political life (1825–1849) The Polks on the portico of the White House alongside Secretary of State James Buchanan, and former first lady Dolley Madison.
In an age when motherhood gave a woman her only acknowledged career, Sarah Polk had to resign herself to childlessness.
James K. Polk died from cholera only three months after his presidency ended in June 1849, leaving Sarah a widow and sole manager of Polk Place and their Mississippi plantation, as well as over fifty enslaved people.
Sarah "Sallie" (Jetton) Fall was a grand niece of 11th Pres. James Knox and Sarah (Childress) Polk. Her husband was George William Fall, b. Jan 1837, Kentucky - d. 1909, Tennessee. Her parents are Robert Brevard Jetton Jr. and Mary Sansom Childress.
But James K. Polk’s stay at Polk Place was tragically short. When he died just three months after leaving the Presidency, 45-year-old Sarah donned the black mourning clothes that she would wear for the rest of her life: more than four decades.
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