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Sarah Knox Davis was Jefferson Davis' first wife. According to This Civil War page:

Jefferson Davis was born on June 3,1808 in Christian county, Kentucky. He was the youngest of 10 children. His parents were Samuel and Jane Cook Davis who moved their family shortly after Jefferson was born to Wilkinson county , Mississippi. Davis attended Transylvania college in Kentucky and went to the United States Military Academy for his senior year. His record there was not distinguished and he had a drinking problem. After he graduated in 1828 he served on the northwestern frontier. While on that frontier he fell in love with the daughter of Zachary Taylor, Sarah Knox. Davis participated in the Black Hawk War in 1832 but in 1835 he resigned his commission and married Sarah Knox. The newlyweds settled on a 1000 acre plantation in Mississippi, but 3 months later Sarah died of malaria.