Zachary Taylor
- Sobriquet: Old Rough and Ready
American
Zachary Taylor was a career officer in the United States Army and the twelfth President of the United States. - AsNotedIn
Lineage
- Father Col Richard Taylor
- Daughter: Sarah Knox Taylor Davis
Zachary Taylor was a career officer in the United States Army and the twelfth President of the United States. - AsNotedIn
Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
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Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
1784/11/24 | Sarah Dabney, wife Richard Taylor, gives birth to a son, Zachary, at Montebello. After selling Hare Forest Plantation, the family was heading west when members became sick and stopped. Marker at Spotswood Trail and Old Montebello Dr, Gordonsville. | Born | Gordonsville, VA | Virginia | |||
1785/06/00 | Richard Taylor moves his the family to a 400-acre farm with a small log dwelling on the Muddy Fork of Beargrass Creek, just east of the village of Louisville, Kentucky. | Home | Zachary Taylor House | Louisville, KY | |||
1808/05/03 | With the assistance of James Madison, a relative, and others, Zachary Taylor is appointed a first lieutenant of the Kentuckian Seventh Infantry Regiment of the United State Army. | Military | |||||
1810/06/18 | Margaret Mackall Smith, daughter of Major Walter Smith, marries Zachary Taylor. Five of their six children will be born in the Zachary Taylor House. | Groom | Zachary Taylor House | Louisville, KY | Marriage of Margaret Mackall Smith and Zachary Taylor | ||
1849/07/16 | Funeral sevices for Dolley Madison are held at St John's Church, Lafayette Square | Mourner | St John's Church | Washington, DC | Funeral for Dolley Madison | ||
1849/07/16 | Zachary Taylor attends obsequies for Dolley Madison. | Mourner | Public Vault, Congressional Cemetery, DC | Congressional Cemetery | Funeral for Dolley Madison | ||
1850/05/01 | Eleanor Boyle Ewing marries William Tecumseh Sherman in a ceremony at Blair House. Thomas Ewing (the bride's father and the groom's foster father), is renting Blair House at the time. | Guest | Blair House | Washington, DC | Marriage of Ellen Ewing and William Tecumseh Sherman | ||
1850/07/04 | President Zachary Taylor attends the ground breaking ceremony for the Washington Monument. | Dignitary | Washington Monument | Washington, DC | |||
1850/07/04 | Seeking relief from the stifling heat and humidity during a fund-raising event at the Washington Monument, Zachery Taylor drinks a pitcher of iced milk and eats a bowl of cherries. | Life | Washington Monument | Washington, DC | Cherry | Death of President Zachary Taylor | |
1850/07/04 | President Taylor is beset with stomach cramps and becomes seriously ill. | Health | Death of President Zachary Taylor | ||||
1850/07/07 | President Zachary Taylor's physician, assisted by a Baltimore quack, applies heroic medicine by drugging the president with ipecac, calomel, opium and quinine (at 40 grains a dose) and bleeding and blistering him. | Died | The White House | Washington, DC | Death of President Zachary Taylor | ||
1850/07/13 | President Taylor's funeral is conducted in the East Room. The coffin is placed in an elaborate black and white funeral car surmounted by a great eagle. | In Memoriam | White House East Room | The White House | Death of President Zachary Taylor | ||
1850/07/13 | Zachary Taylor's body is temporarily interned at the Public Vault at Congressional Cemetery in Washington, DC. | In Memoriam | Public Vault, Congressional Cemetery, DC | Congressional Cemetery | Death of President Zachary Taylor | ||
1850/10/26 | Interred in an air-tight Fisk metallic burial case with a glass window over his face, the remains of Zachary Taylor are removed from Congressional Cemetery to be relocated to the Taylor family plot in Louisville, Kentucky. | In Memoriam | Public Vault, Congressional Cemetery, DC | Congressional Cemetery | |||
1850/11/01 | The remains of Zachary Taylor are buried at the Taylor family burial ground. | In Memoriam | Zachary Taylor National Cemetery | St Matthews | Death of President Zachary Taylor |
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