Sarah Shaffer

1814 - 1878  (64 years)

• Name	Sarah Shaffer  [1]
  Birth	1814  [2]
  Gender	Female
  Alternate birth	1817  [1]
  Death	Aug 1878	Milton, Autauga, Alabama   [2]
  Burial	Old Milton Cemetery, Milton, Autauga, Alabama   [2]
  Person ID	I42952	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	10 Sep 2025

  
  

  Family	William Taylor,   b. 1815   d. 1867 (Age 52 years)
  Marriage	14 Jun 1839	Autauga County, Alabama   [3, 4]
  Children	+ 1. Thomas Jefferson Taylor,   b. 1846, Milton, Autauga, Alabama d. 1874, Milton, Autauga, Alabama (Age 28 years)
  Family ID	F25108	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	10 Sep 2025

  
  

• Notes

  A Genealogy of the Wives of the American Presidents (citation details below) calls the mother of Thomas Jefferson Taylor "Sarah Jane Ponsonby". It would appear that her actual birth surname was Shaffer, and that she was married to a man surnamed Ponsonby before her marriage to William Taylor.

  
  

• Sources

  [S8455] A Genealogy of the Wives of the American Presidents and Their First Two Generations of Descent by Craig Hart. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland, 2004. A Genealogy of the Wives of the American Presidents and Their First Two Generations of Descent by Craig Hart. Jefferson, North Carolina and London: McFarland & Company, 2004. [S8463] Find a Grave page for Sarah Shaffer Taylor. [S8463] Find a Grave page for Sarah Shaffer Taylor., year only. [S7486] Alabama Marriages, 1816-1957, on familysearch.org.