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Family: James Knox Polk McLemore / Margaret Caroline Jackson

m. 11 Oct 1870


 

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McLemore, James Knox Polk and wife, Margaret Jackson

James Knox Polk with his wife, Margaret Jackson. His descendant, Sherry Connally Murray points out the knot of hair visible on Jame's head. She writes that because this hank of hair saved his life as a young man, he forevermore refused to have it cut, wearing it pinned up to his head in a small bun. She indicated she had heard two differing versions of the story, in one it happened during the Civil War, and in the other he was coming home from a bar in Jackson. "Anyway it happened when he was a young man. He fell in the river, and was drowning. Someone reached in and grabbed a hank of hair on the top of his head and saved him. He would never allow that bit of hair to be cut again for the rest of his life. It was 3 or 4 feet long."


Owner of originalSherry Connally Murray
Dateca 1880 to 1900
PlaceTennessee
Linked toFamily: McLemore/Jackson (F8491)

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