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Jefferson F. [a] Davis was the youngest of ten children of Jane and Samuel Emory Davis. [2] Samuel Davis's father, Evan, who had a Welsh background, came to the colony of Georgia from Philadelphia. [ 3 ] [ b ] Samuel served in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War , and received a land grant for his service near present-day ...
Varina Howell (mother) Varina Anne "Winnie" Davis (June 27, 1864 – September 18, 1898) was an American author who is best known as the youngest daughter of President Jefferson Davis of the Confederate States of America and Varina (Howell) Davis. Born near the end of the war, by the late 1880s she became known as the "Daughter of the Confederacy".
Varina Anne Banks Davis (née Howell; May 7, 1826 – October 16, 1906) was the only First Lady of the Confederate States of America, and the longtime second wife of President Jefferson Davis. She moved to the presidential mansion in Richmond, Virginia, in mid-1861, and lived there for the remainder of the Civil War.
Sarah Knox Davis (née Taylor; March 6, 1814 – September 15, 1835) was the daughter of the 12th U.S. president Zachary Taylor and part of the notable Lee family.She met future Confederate president Jefferson Davis (1808–1889) when living with her father and family at Fort Crawford during the Black Hawk War in 1832.
The Davis family was quite young during their stay at the house. When they moved in, the family consisted of the president and first lady, six-year-old Margaret, four-year-old Jefferson Davis, Jr., and two-year-old Joseph. The two youngest Davis children, William and Varina Anne ("Winnie"), were
Death and funeral. Jefferson Davis died at 12:45 a.m. on Friday, December 6, 1889. [1][2] His funeral was one of the largest in the South, and New Orleans draped itself in mourning as his body lay in state in the City Hall for several days. An Executive Committee decided to emphasize his ties to the United States, so an American national flag ...
Family of Jefferson Davis. Articles related to the American political family from Kentucky and Mississippi, which includes Jefferson Davis, the President of the Confederate States of America.
A Short History of the Confederate States of America. The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government (1881) is a book written by Jefferson Davis, who served as President of the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War. Davis wrote the book as a straightforward history of the Confederate States of America and as an apologia ...