The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1891-07-30
JEFF DAVIS THE THIRD.
An -Four OF the southern Chiefssin's Sons
Died without Male Issus-This hey IL
Hts Grandson, Firstborn OF His Daueh-
Ter Margaret, Mrs. Hayes.

Died without Male Issue-This Boy IL
Hts Grandson. Firstborn OF His Daueh-
Ter Margaret, Mrs. Hayes.
The New York Herald prints the fol.
lowing Interesting article about little
JEFF Hayes Davis:
jefferson Davis is In the city. Not the
statesmsn-the chieftain Of the Lost
Cause-but this "Jeff Davis is as pretty
boy as one would wish to set eyes
upon, aud they say that he is the very
image of his grandfather at his age.
Jefc son Davis be is, and the grand
son of him whom thirty years ago one
section of the country loved with pas.
sionate affection and whom the other
section hated with such hatred that In
all the country crossroads 1t was @
mooted question in theology whether or
not Jefferson Davis could go to heaven.
All that has passed now. After all, IL
was only family spat, and the young
folks grown up since the war can hardly
understand why such fuss should be
made about 1t all. The old hatred is
really dead, and in its stead has grown
up a national pride in the brave way in
which our Southern brethren fought.
Our Northern bands even played that
fitting air, The Bonnie Blue Flag"
and the o'erweening confidence in that
song has been forgiven because the ban
ner is more bespangled with stars now
than 1t ever was before. But one can
understand how the old veterans who
wore the gray, and fought till the Con-
federacy keeled over from exhaustion,
should choke in their cheering as the
daughter of their dead and gone chief
tain unveiled the soldiers monument at
Jackson, Miss, recently, and can we'll
believe that they almost smothered with
embraces the little fellow who helped
his mother pull the cord.
That was little jefferson Davis, the
grandson of the President of the Con-
federacy.
There were four sons born to Jeffer-
son Davis. The hrst, Samuel, died in
Washington when but baby. That
was when the storm of the rebellion
was rumbling in the distance and the
sky was overcast. She who ia now Mrs.
Hayes was the second child. jefferson
came William Davis, after him Joseph,
and last Of all, Varina-''Winnie," -
fondly cbristened THE Daughter of the
Confederacy." Joseph died in Rich
mond during the war.
William died at Memphis in 1872, and
near the same city, during the awful
yellow fever epidemic of 1878, Jefferson
Davis II. gave up his life while at tho
post of duty. Thus persisted the male
descendants of President Davis, all with
out male issue. There was no one to
transmit the family name.
Margaret Davis was married in 1875
or 1879 to Mr.. Hayes, of that city, and
bore son. He was christened jefferson
Addison Hayes. Mr.. Hayes suggested
that the baby's name might be changed.
but President Davis said no. The boy
was Mr.. Hayes only son. 1t would not
be right that his heir should not trans
nit his name. But the proposition lin
gcred in the old mans heart.
So the boy grew and prospered. Two
months out of the year he spent away
from his home at Colorado Springs and
with his grandfather at Beauvoir, Miss,
and every day that he lived he grew
dearer and dearer to the aged man.
BY and by another boy was born to
Mr.. and Mrs. Hayes. Mrs. Davis then
said to his wife that If the offer was
made again he would then give his con-
sent to the change Of the name OF the
first born.
After his death, and when Mrs. Davis
Was in New Orleans at the great funeral
the Governors of most of the Southern
States and many OF the old Generals and
veterans OF the civil war called on her
and asked that she consent to the change
of the name of little Jefferson Davis
HAYES. The father and mother were
willing and application was made to
the Legislature of Mississippi. In the
spring Of 1890 Gov. Lowry affixed his
the name Of the little man, now at the
New York Hotel, to Jefferson Hayes
Davis.
Therefore it was that in June last at
Jackson he was embraced and kissed by
the grizzled veterans and given badges,
no end. of every organiza ton of the ex-
Confederate soldiers. This pretty bios
som has grown out of the grave of the
Lost Cause.
And be sure that his mother instructs
him that he bears an honored name
almost sainted name-to those south
of Mason and Dixon's line. There is
Lee and there is Stonewall Jackson and
there is Jefferson Davis. BE sure that
of these the mother thinks when she
hears the collect: ''Grant us grace so to
follow Thy blessed saints in all virtuous
and godly living that we may come to
these eternal joys which Tnou hast pre-
pared for those who unfeignedly love
Thee"
One Good Thing.
Mr.. Ann-There is one thing that l
like about your place over in New
JERSEY