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  Sam Sloan's Big Combined Family Trees - pafg556 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
Margaret Smith TAYLOR was born on 27 Jul 1819 in Louisville, Jefferson, Kentucky.
Margaret STROTHER was born in 1735 in Hanover, Virginia.
Margaret STROTHER was born in 1722 in, Hanover, Virginia.
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 Margaret Taylor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Margaret Mackall Smith Taylor (September 21, 1788 – August 14, 1852), wife of Zachary Taylor, was First Lady of the United States from 1849 to 1850.
"Peggy" Smith was born in Calvert County, Maryland, daughter of Ann Mackall and Walter Smith, a major in the American Revolutionary War according to family tradition.
In 1809, visiting a sister in Kentucky, she met young Lieutenant Taylor.
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 Richard Taylor
Richard Taylor, Confederate general, only son of Margaret Mackall (Smith) and Gen. Zachary Taylor, was born at the Taylor family home, Springfield, near Louisville, Kentucky, on January 27, 1826, and named for his grandfather, a Virginian who had served as a Revolutionary War officer.
Smith also thwarted Taylor's desire to free New Orleans from federal occupation, a goal that received strong, although temporary, approval and encouragement from Secretary of War George Wythe Randolph and President Davis.
Convinced of Smith's arrogant ambition and incompetence, Taylor exploded with a series of insulting, insubordinate diatribes against Smith and submitted his resignation.
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 American President
As a figure in her husband's presidential life, Margaret Mackall Smith Taylor seemed to be more a phantom than a person, and for good reason.
When Margaret failed to appear at the various inaugural balls, the press focused on her youthful and lively daughter.
Her dislike of pomp and protocol and her refusal to perform official hostess duties neither precluded her from entertaining friends and relatives in the family's private quarters nor from debating current political issues and listening to her husband's political discussions.
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 Welcome to The American Presidency
Two years later he married Margaret Mackall Smith of Calvert county, Md. As a captain he won distinction in September 1812 for his defense of Fort Harrison in Indiana Territory against an Indian attack.
Smith, Elbert B., The Presidencies of Zachary Taylor and Millard Fillmore (Univ. Press of Kans. 1988).
Ann Mackall (1811–1875); Sarah Knox (1814–1835); Octavia Pannel (1816–1820); Margaret Smith (1819–1820); Mary Elizabeth (1824–1909); Richard (1826–1879).
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 Presidential Avenue: First Ladies
Margaret Mackall Smith Taylor was a tired, sick woman of 61 when her hero-husband Zachary Taylor became a candidate for the presidency.
Her father, Robert Smith Todd, was a pioneer and one of the leading citizens of Lexington, Kentucky, where Mary was born.
Their daughter, Margaret, a singer, was studying for the concert stage while the Trumans lived in the White House.
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James John Mackall was an officer of the Military and one of the foremost men of Calvert Co., during the pre-Revolutionary period, representing Calvert Co., in nearly all of the meetings and conventions of that exciting period.
Margaret Mackall Smith was introduced to Zachary Taylor about the year 1809, by Dr. Alexander Duke, of Calvert County, Maryland, while visiting her sister, Mrs.
Margaret Mackall, one of the eight sisters, married on February 4, 1773, Major Richard Chew, eldest son of Richard and Sarah Lock Chew, who was born the 10th of April,1753.
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 Margaret Mackall Smith Taylor
The general went on to say that he hadn't voted for Taylor, partly because his wife was opposed to sending "Old Zack" to Washington, "where she would be obliged to go with him!" It was a truthful answer.
Moreover, the story goes that Margaret Taylor had taken a vow during the Mexican War: If her husband returned safely, she would never go into society again.
"Peggy" Smith was born in Calvert County, Maryland, daughter of Ann Mackall and Walter Smith, a major in the Revolutionary War according to family tradition.
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 Margaret Taylor, First Lady
Margaret (Peggy) was born in Calvert County, Maryland on September 21, 1788.
Margaret asked her daughter Betty to act as the hostess at White House events.
Margaret then left the Whitehouse and never spoke of her time there again.
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 Margaret Mackall Smith Taylor wife of Zachary Taylor   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Margaret Mackall Smith Taylor wife of Zachary Taylor
Taylor’s physical appearance and only a possibility of an actual photograph of her, which is in private hands.  Aside from references to a very genteel and ladylike appearance, there is little to go on.  Her desire for privacy has covered everything about her under a veil that time has done little to reveal....
Courtship and Marriage:  While visiting an older sister in Louisville, Kentucky, Margaret Smith, then 21, met the young army officer, Zachary Taylor.  They married the next year at her sister’s home on June 21, 1810.
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 Explore DC: Margaret Taylor
By the time Zachary Taylor was elected president in 1848, Margaret had been a military wife for thirty years and was a semi-invalid who wanted only to live peacefully with her husband.
Margaret came to Washington very reluctantly and once there immediately abdicated her duties as first lady to her youngest daughter, Betty.
So withdrawn was Margaret that when Zachary died suddenly in 1850, many people did not know there even was a Mrs.
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 First Ladies' Biographical Information
Ann Hance Mackall, born 12 May, 1755, Calvert County, Maryland; married sometime after 1772 as her father, in his will, dated and probated in 1772, states that she was single at that time; died 20 May, 1789, Calvert County, Maryland.
English, Scottish; Margaret Taylor's paternal great-great grandfather Captain Richard Smith was born in England and immigrated to the American colonies in 1649 with his brother Walter, who settled in Baltimore County.
Outside of the basic facts that Margaret "Peggy" Taylor was born and raised in a large brick plantation house (destroyed by fire in the early 20th century) to a wealthy and prosperous tobacco plantation family, no other documentation regarding her early life is extant.
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 What's In a Name - Smith - All Info-About Genealogy
Henry Smith came to America in 1638 with his wife Judith Cooper Stanton, their children, some grown, servants, livestock and sundry goods.
Elizabeth was the daughter of Henry Smith and Elizabeth Cooper.
Henry was the son of Henry and Judith Smith of Hingham and Rehoboth.
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 obits.com, The Internet Obituary Network, Obituary for Zachary Taylor   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Miss Smith was the daughter of a Revolutionary War officer, hailed from a slave holding plantation in Maryland, and adapted easily to Taylor's way of life.
As Taylor ran through a string of minor commands in frontier outposts, his family was struck down by an influenza outbreak in 1820, two young daughters dying and his wife left an invalid for life.
At his death, President Taylor was survived by his wife Margaret, who died in 1852, his son Richard, and his daughter Mary Taylor Bliss.
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 MARGARET TAYLOR
Margaret Smith was born at St. Leonard's in Calvert County, Maryland, the daughter of Richard and Ann Mackall Smith.
When Margaret was twenty-one, she visited her sister Mary Chew at her plantation in Kentucky, near Louisville.
Margaret, or Peggy as she was called, lived very privately in the White House, acting as though it was her own home.
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 ZACHARY TAYLOR - Original Member of the Aztec Club of 1847
In 1841 Taylor was ordered to Fort Gibson to relieve General Arbuckle in command of the Second Department of the Western Division of the Army at Fort Smith.
He married the former Margaret Mackall Smith on June 18, 1810.
Of their six children, two died in childhood; the three daughters who survived, Ann Mackall, Sarah Knox and Mary Elizabeth, married soldiers: Robert C. Wood, Jefferson Davis and William Bliss.
www.aztecclub.com /bios/taylor.htm   (2517 words)

  
 The Heritage of Calvert County, Maryland For the Young Reader
Smith once said that there were so many fish in the waters here that he tried to scoop them out with his frying pan.
Margaret Mackall Smith was born in St. Leonard, in Calvert County.
Margaret Taylor is the only First Lady without an authentic portrait - no one knows for sure what she looked like.
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 Margaret Mackall Smith Term Papers, Essay Research Paper Help, Essays on Margaret Mackall Smith
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 Ancestor Chronicles - Our Kin And Their Times
Sarah Knox Taylor, the daughter of future president Zachary Taylor and Margaret Mackall Smith Taylor, was born at Fort Knox in Vincennes, Indiana, in either 1813 or 1814 (probably the latter), and was named for her paternal grandmother and for the fort where she was born.
Often called Knox or Knoxie, she was educated in Kentucky and Ohio and met Davis in 1832, when both he and her father were stationed at Fort Crawford in what is now Wisconsin.
His mother was Agatha McDowell, whose mother was Margaret Madison, daughter of John Madison, brother of President James Madison.
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 Biography of MARGARET MACKALL SMITH TAYLOR
Margaret Taylor was sixty years old and a semi-invalid when her husband, Zachary, became President.
The prospect of assuming the role of First Lady did not interest her.
When the President died in June 1850, Margaret was shattered.
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 Wikinfo | First Lady of the United States
Margaret Mackall Smith Taylor - wife of Zachary Taylor
Margaret Woodrow Wilson - daughter of widower Woodrow Wilson
Rosalynn Smith Carter - wife of Jimmy Carter
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 National Park Service - The Presidents (Zachary Taylor)
Two of their five daughters were to die as children and one was to wed Jefferson Davis; their only son, Richard, was to become a Confederate general.
His next major assignment was in Florida, in the years 1837-40, where his role in the Second Seminole War gained him a brevet brigadier generalcy.
In 1845 while Taylor was commanding the First Department of the Army at the latter fort, President Polk ordered him to prepare to defend Texas against a possible Mexican invasion, and he concentrated an army at Corpus Christi.
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 Handbook of Texas Online:
Richard Taylor, Confederate general, only son of Margaret Mackall (Smith) and Gen. Zachary Taylor,
Taylor was outraged when Smith abruptly detached Walker's Texas Division
Robert L. Kerby, Kirby Smith's Confederacy: The Trans-Mississippi South, 1863-1865 (New York: Columbia University Press, 1972).
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 taylor1   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The only presidential first lady who is a Maryland native, Margaret "Peggy" (Mackall Smith) Taylor was born in St. Leonard in Calvert County on September 21, 1788.
The Calvert County Public Library and the Historical Society hosted an "afternoon tea" and an evening party in her honor which was attended by Maryland's First Lady, Frances Hughes Glendening and Mabel Mackall Briscoe, descendant of Margaret Taylor.
Descendant Mabel Mackall Briscoe offered a picture that she inherited from a family member who told her that it was a picture of Margaret "Peggy" Taylor (shown here).
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 Zachary Taylor - History Celebrities
Marriage: Jefferson County, Kentucky, June 21, 1810 to Margaret Mackall Smith, who was born in Calvert County, Maryland, September 21, 1788.
Margaret died near Pascagoula, Mississippi, August 18, 1852 and is buried in Zachary Taylor National Cemetery, Louisville, Kentucky.
States of America in 1861.) Octavia Pannill (1816-1820); Margaret Smith (1819-1820); Maly Elizabeth (1824-1909); Richard (1826-1879).
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 ZaCk TaYlOr
In November of 1847, Taylor went home to campaign for his upcoming presidential run (Smith, 39).
In the fall of 1847, Taylor was becoming more and more interested and began to write his views on political issues.
He left behind his wife of forty years and eighteen days, Margaret Mackall Smith (1787-1852) whom he had married on June 18, 1810 near Louisville.
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 Portraits of Presidents and First Ladies Now Available from American Memory On-Line Collections
The division does not have an original print or photographs of Abigail Powers Fillmore, Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson, Elizabeth Kortright Monroe, Julia Gardiner Tyler or Letitia Christian Tyler.
No authentic portrait is known of Margaret Mackall Smith Taylor.
The electronic images show both the patriotic and commercial roles of presidential portraiture through a broad range of styles and creators.
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 Internet Public Library: POTUS
Married: Margaret Mackall Smith (1788-1852), on June 21, 1810
Children: Ann Mackall Taylor (1811-75); Sarah Knox Taylor (1814-35); Octavia P. Taylor (1816-20); Margaret Smith Taylor (1819-20); Mary Elizabeth Taylor (1824-1909); Richard Taylor (1826-79)
The Clayton-Bulwer Treaty signed with Britain guaranteed that any future canal across Central America would be available to all nations.
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 THE MACKALL FAMILY OF CALVERT COUNTY, MARYLAND
In 1946 Louis Covington Mackall published "A Short History - The Mackall Family".
Later generations have been added from materials received from Henry C. Mackall of Fairfax, VA. Other source materials are listed in the Bibliography.
modified 4/21/2001 adding biographical materials for Leonard Leopold Mackall, Alexander Lawton Mackall, Milton Barkley Mackall, Samuel Turner Mackall, Benjamin Hance Mackall, and John Mackall of Rockingham VA modified 4/22/2001 adding biographical material for Ann Mackall/Walter Smith and First Lady Margaret Mackall Smith; add Pico Search Engine
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