The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1898-09-24
WINNIE DAVIS DEAD.

WIN NILE DAVIS OGAOs
Tho Beloved Daughter Of the Confedei acy
Passes Away After an Illness Of Several
Weeks.
Miss Winnie Davis, daughter of
Jefferson Davis, the late Confederate
leader, died at Narragansett Pier,
e. l., Sunday, the 18th inst, Of
mala4iL gastritis, after an illness
of several weeks. Mrs. Davis was
at the bedside OF her daughter from
the beginning of her fatal illness
until the sad end came.
The aged mother is bowed down
with sorrow for the light of her life
has gone out. She and her daughter
were inseparable, and they seemed
indispensable to each others hap
piness.
It was owing to her great love for
her mother that Miss Davis broke |
her engagement few years ago
with well-known business man
of New York.
She could not bear the thought
of separation, and after mature
consideration she decided to put
aside the idea Of marrying and re-
main with her mother.
In recent years Miss Winnie
Davis engaged in literary work and
it is believed that the long hours
given up to this pursuit undermined
her health. Friends sought to dis
suade her from overwork, but Win
ME Davis was a proud woman and
dreaded the thought that in the
years to come she or her mother
might become q burden to their
friends. 4
Therefore, she improved every
hour, and although her health gave
way, it is said that she acquired
competence which will, Of course,
revert to Mrs. Davis.
Miss Narina Anne Jefferson Davis
Miss Winnie, rs she is known in |
the South-was born in the Execu-
tive Mansion of the Confederacy in
Richmond, in June, 1864, and when
an infant she shared her fathers
prisen CELL and was much petted BY
the ahcers at Fort Monroe.
The first Eve years Of her life were
spent in England, but she came back
TO Memphis, Tenn, afterxard. At
a very early age che showed taste
for;reading. and her parents direct
ed her mind with care. Her father
was particularly fond Of her precoc-
ity and loved to read aloud to her
and listen to her wise comments. /
The South s climate did not agree
with Winnie, so she was sent to q
boarding school at Carlsruhe, Ger
many, where she became proficient
in German and French. Later she
went to Paris and studied music and
drawing, progressing rapidly.
At the age of II Miss Davis re-
turned to her fathers quiet home,
Beauvoir, Miss, and continued her
studies under her fathers direction.
She made her social debut in New
Orleans soon after her return from
Paris as Queen of the Mardi Gras
Carnival. Shortly afterward she &C.
companied her father to q reception
in Atlanta, Ca, where she was in
troduced by Gen. John B. Gordon as
"the Daughter Of the Confederacy,'
sobriQuet by which she has been
known BY every ex.Confedera:e.
The death of Miss Davis father
on December 6, 1891. occurred when
she was on . second visit to Paris,
aud the blow go shocked her that her
life vas despaired OF. She returned
to America and soon afterwards
went With her mother to New York
to live. where she could better pur-
sue literary career. !
She has written since "The Yelled
Doctor and ION Summer Seas,
two novels which had q wide circu-
lation in the South. When she was
taken i'll recently she was engaged
on another more preteatious liter
AIRY work. Il
Miss Davis has, since her fathers
death. travelled extensively in Eu-
rope and Asia and became one Of
the prominent women in the United
States.
Fraak Walton will soon retire |
from the management Of the Senti-
mel, being succeeded on October LIST
By Arthur G. Whittier, Blake pop-l
ulist nominee for superintendent Of
schools. !