Where2Guide: Locust Grove Cemetery

Memorial to
Sarah Knox Taylor Davis

Locust Grove Cemetery
St. Francisville, LA 70775
April 16, 2000

Sarah Knox Taylor Davis was daughter of Zachary Taylor, the 12th President of the United States of America, the wife of Jefferson Davis who later became the President of the Confederate States of America and sister of General Richard Taylor of Confederate battle fame.

Sarah Knox Taylor was born at Fort Knox in Vincennes, Indiana about 1814, and educated in Kentucky and Ohio. She married Jefferson Davis on June 17, 1835. Jefferson and Sarah Davis came to Louisiana to visit relatives and begin the planning of their home, Brierfield. After contracting either yellow fever or malaria, Sarah Davis died September 15, 1835. She is buried at Locust Grove Cemetery, West Feliciana Parish.

Just east of St. Francsiville on Baines Road (1) one mile north of Hwy 10 at Locust Grove Cemetery.

Memorial Ceremonies

Call to Order (1:00 PM)

Herbert Price,Council of Conservative Citizens,
Coordinator and Master of Ceremonies

Zachary Taylor

Invocation

Dr. Mack P. Stewart, Pastor of 2nd Baptist
Church-Jackson, Louisiana

Presentation of Colors (and lead the Pledge):

Rogillio Clack Post 164 American Legion

Pledge to the Flag of the United States:

I Pledge allegiance to the flag of the
       United States of America and to the Republic

for which it stands one nation under God indivisible
       with liberty and justice for all.

Jefferson Davis