Sarah Childress Polk. James asistió a la University of North Carolina con el hermano de Sarah, Anderson, que fue quien los presentó. The White House. Retrieved on October 14, 2007.
«Sarah Childress Polk – The White House». The White House. «Contrasted with Julia Tyler's waltzes, her entertainments have become famous for sedateness and sobriety. Some later accounts say that the Polks never served wine, but in December 1845 a Congressman's wife recorded in her diary details of a four-hour dinner for forty at the White House--glasses for six different wines, from pink champagne to ruby port and sauterne, "formed a rainbow around each plate." ».
