| 词条 | Sarah Polk Fall |
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| name = Sarah Polk Fall | image = FallPortriat.jpg | caption = Portrait by Mayna Treanor Avent | birth_name = Sarah Polk Jetton | birth_date = {{Birth date|1847|04|01|}} | death_date = {{death date|1924|07|22|}} (aged 77) | birth_place = Rutherford County, Tennessee U.S. | death_place = Nashville, Tennessee | resting_place = Mount Olivet Cemetery | nationality = American | known_for = Fostered daughter of Sarah Childress Polk | spouse = {{marriage|George William Fall|1865|1909|end=died}} | children = Saidee Fall Grant{{refn|Formally Saidee Fall Gardner she remarried, Rollin Grant, after the death of her first husband.[1]|name=name|group=lower-alpha}} }} Sarah "Sallie" 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 to former First Lady Sarah Childress Polk. BiographySallie Jetton was born in Rutherford County, Tennessee in 1847 to Mary Childress and Robert Jetton, a farmer and land owner.[2] Mary Childress was the daughter of Anderson Childress, the older brother of First Lady Sarah Childress Polk.[3]{{Rp|1}} Sallie's mother died a few months after her birth from childbirth complications. Her father was unable to raise her alone, so she was taken in by her great-grandmother Elizabeth Childress. She stayed with her great-grandmother for a short period until the death of President James K. Polk in 1849. The president's wife Sarah mourned her husband's death deeply and became a recluse, rarely leaving her home Polk Place. Elizabeth, who was in her 70s, brought Sallie to Polk Place and suggested Sarah should care for her. Sarah agreed and assumed guardianship of Sallie after 1850.[4][4][5] Many who knew Sarah seemed skeptical of her bringing a child into her home. Judge John Catron would make the comment, "You are not the one Madam, to have charge of a little child; you, who have always been absorbed in the political and social affairs..."[6][7] But nonetheless Sarah still assumed guardianship, and brought in a nurse and maid to watch the young girl.[7] Sarah would often refer to Sallie as her daughter, and newspapers referred to Sallie as her adopted daughter.[8][9] Sarah would take great pride in raising Sallie, even bringing in a governess when Sallie was older for a short time. Sallie stayed with Sarah for the rest of the former First Lady's life. In 1865, Sarah hosted Sallie's marriage to George Fall in the main Parlor of Polk Place.[10][11] The newlyweds moved in with Sarah until after the birth of their child Saidee. Sarah greatly adored the little girl whom she saw has her granddaughter. After Sarah's death in 1891 Sallie became the sole heir to the Polk estate as Sarah willed the Polk belongings, the contents of Polk Place along with the presidential papers to Sallie.[12][13][14] Sarah bequeathed some of the personal items of the President to Sallie's daughter Saidee, including the president's watch and glasses.[15] Sallie sold and donated the presidential papers to the Library of Congress in the early 1900s.[14][16] She also donated one of Sarah's inaugural gowns and a fan to the Smithsonian.[17][18][19] In 1905 Sallie opened her own home in Nashville for social gatherings to exhibit the items she had inherited from Sarah and to tell the legacy of her great uncle president Polk.[20][21] During these gatherings and other social events she would introduce herself as the daughter to the president.{{efn|Throughout her life she seldom used her maiden name of Jetton, she always referred to herself as "Sarah Polk Fall".|name=|group=lower-alpha}} Death and legacySallie fell ill in 1924 and died July 22, at the age of 77. Newspapers throughout the country published "The Adopted daughter of President Polk Dies."[22][23][24] The vast majority of the items she did not donate to the Library of Congress or the Smithsonian were left to her daughter, Saidee. Shortly before her death she helped her daughter Saidee found the James K. Polk Memorial Association along with other Nashville women, with the main intent of preserving the president's legacy.[25] In 1929 her daughter Saidee worked together with the state of Tennessee to purchase the only surviving private residence which the president lived in. The home, located in Columbia, Tennessee, was constructed by the president's father Samuel in 1816, and was the president's home for six years before his marriage to Sarah Childress in 1824. On acquisition of the home in 1929 The James K. Polk Memorial Association founded the James K. Polk Home, the presidential museum of James K. Polk.[29] The contents of Polk Place that Sallie inherited and later left to her daughter Saidee would be brought to the museum. Later the fountain, the garden urns, and a gate from the exterior of Polk Place were moved to the property.[26][27] Notes{{notelist|25em|group=lower-alpha}}References1. ^{{cite web |title=Prominent Banker Weds |url=https://books.google.com/?id=0G_nAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA1649&dq=rollin+p+grant+gardner#v=onepage&q=rollin%20p%20grant%20gardner&f=false |website=Google Books |publisher=Financier |ref=Volume 109 |location=New York |pages=1649 |date=1917}} 2. ^{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/?id=hWgZAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA302&dq=Sarah+Polk+Fall+mary+jetton#v=onepage&q=Sarah%20Polk%20Fall%20mary%20jetton&f=false|title=Lineage Book - National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution|last=Revolution|first=Daughters of the American|date=1899|publisher=Daughters of the American Revolution|isbn=|location=|pages=302|language=en}} 3. ^{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/?id=Hmx5cMwRQhsC&pg=PA1&lpg=PA1&dq=Sarah+Polk+siblings+anderson#v=onepage&q=Sarah%20Polk%20siblings%20anderson&f=false|title=Sarah Childress Polk, First Lady of Tennessee and Washington|last1=Peterson|first1=Barbara|date=2002|publisher=Nova|year=|isbn=9781590331453|location=|page=|pages=}} 4. ^{{cite web|last1=History.com|first1=Staff|title=Sarah Polk|url=https://www.history.com/topics/first-ladies/sarah-polk|website=History.com|publisher=A+E Networks|accessdate=}} 5. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.jameskpolk.com/sarah-polk-biography.php|title=Sarah Childress Polk, James K. Polk Home|website=www.jameskpolk.com|access-date=2018-03-30}} 6. ^{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/?id=owz1wGg_R00C&pg=PA72&lpg=PA72&dq=You+are+not+the+one+Madam,+to+have+charge+of+a+little+child;+you,+who+have+always+been+absorbed+in+the+political+and+social+affairs.#v=onepage&q=You%20are%20not%20the%20one%20Madam,%20to%20have%20charge%20of%20a%20little%20child;%20you,%20who%20have%20always%20been%20absorbed%20in%20the%20political%20and%20social%20affairs.&f=false|title=Rating The First Ladies: The Women Who Influenced The Presidency|last=Roberts|first=John B. B.|date=2004|publisher=Citadel Press|isbn=9780806526089|location=|pages=72|language=en}} 7. ^1 2 {{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/?id=gztAAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA162&lpg=PA162&dq=You+are+not+the+one+Madam,+to+have+charge+of+a+little+child;+you,+who+have+always+been+absorbed+in+the+political+and+social+affairs.#v=onepage&q=You%20are%20not%20the%20one%20Madam,%20to%20have%20charge%20of%20a%20little%20child;%20you,%20who%20have%20always%20been%20absorbed%20in%20the%20political%20and%20social%20affairs.&f=false|title=Memorials of Sarah Childress Polk: Wife of the Eleventh President of the United States|last=Nelson|first=Anson|last2=Nelson|first2=Fanny|date=1892|publisher=A.D.F. Randolph|year=|isbn=|location=|pages=161-162|language=en}} 8. ^{{Cite news|url=https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045462/1914-03-08/ed-1/seq-48/|title=Famous Gowns of First Ladies of the Land|last=|first=|date=March 8, 1914|work=Evening star.|access-date=March 30, 2019|pages=2|issn=2331-9968}} 9. ^{{Cite news|url=https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84026749/1922-02-27/ed-1/seq-12/|title=James K. 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Polk Papers.|url=https://www.loc.gov/collections/james-k-polk-papers/about-this-collection/|website=www.loc.gov/|publisher=Libaray of Congress}} 17. ^{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/?id=bgc1AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA6&dq=sarah+Polk+fall#v=onepage&q=sarah%20Polk%20fall&f=false|title=Catalogue of American Historical Costumes: Including Those of the Mistresses of the White House, as Shown in the United States National Museum|date=1915|language=en}} 18. ^{{Cite book|url=https://siris-sihistory.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=all&source=~!sichronology&uri=full=3100001~!8455~!0#focus|title=Sarah Polk's Lace Fan|last=Unknown}} 19. ^{{Cite web|url=http://americanhistory.si.edu/first-ladies/first-ladies-fashions|title=- First Ladies' Fashions|website=National Museum of American History|language=en|access-date=2018-04-04}} 20. ^{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/?id=ihGST3_ifYMC&pg=PA655&lpg=PA655&dq=Sarah+Polk+Jetton#v=onepage&q=Sarah%20Polk%20Jetton&f=false|title=The Taylor-Trotwood Magazine|last=Taylor|first=Robert Love|last2=Moore|first2=John Trotwood|last3=Jacobs|first3=Thornwell|date=1905|publisher=Taylor Publishing Company|language=en}} 21. ^{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/?id=63gUAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA40&dq=sarah+Polk+Jetton+fall#v=onepage&q=sarah%20Polk%20Jetton%20fall&f=false|title=All about Nashville: A Complete Historical Guide Book to the City|date=1912|publisher=Marshall & Bruce Company|language=en}} 22. ^{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/352576218/?terms=adopted+daughter+polk|title=Adopted Daughter of President Polk Dies|last=|first=|date=|work=Newspapers.com|access-date=2018-07-28|language=en|registration=yes}} 23. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/178419703/?terms=Sarah+Fall|title=Foster daughter of President Polk to be buried.|last1=|first=|date=1924|work=Newspapers.com|publisher=The Tennessean|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=|registration=yes}} 24. ^{{Cite web|url=https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HY-6LW3-B55?i=145&cc=1417505|title=Sarah Falls's Death Certificate|last=|first=|website=www.familysearch.org|publisher=State of Tennessee|year=1924|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=|registration=Yes}} 25. ^{{Cite web|url=http://tennesseeencyclopedia.net/entry.php?rec=1068|title=James K. Polk Ancestral Home {{!}} Entries {{!}} Tennessee Encyclopedia|website=tennesseeencyclopedia.net|language=en|access-date=2018-03-30}} 26. ^1 {{Cite web|url=http://tennesseeencyclopedia.net/entry.php?rec=1068|title=James K. Polk Ancestral Home Tennessee Encyclopedia|last=Holtzapple|first=John C.|date=March 1, 2018|website=tennesseeencyclopedia.net|language=en|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=2018-03-30}} 27. ^{{Cite news|url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/brent_nashville/31334702554|title=James K. Polk's Fountain|work=Flickr|access-date=2018-03-30|language=en-us}} Further reading
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