Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1898-09-22
DEATH OF MISS WINNIE DAVIS.
''The Daughter of the Confederacy" Pass
es AMay Mt NarraCansett Pier, Il. 1.

Narragansctt Pier, r. l., Sept. 1S.-Miss
Winnie Davis. daughter Of Mrs. Jefferson
Davis. and so widely known and beloved
IN the Southern States OF the Union AZ
the Daughter of the Confederacy, died at
noon to-day at the Rockingham Hotel, 70
which place she came as a guest in the
carly part of the Piers social season. She
had been i'll for several weeks and a fort
night ago her ailment was diagnosed as
mdlaral gastritis.
AT times her condition became very Sc
rous so that consultations of physicians
were deemed necessary but frequent raj
lies gave renewed hope that she would
ultimately recover. During the past week
especially was her condition considered
favorable and ii was thought that her
removal from the hotel would be possible
in Il few days as the hotel had closed
for the season. leaving the patient and at
tcndants practically alone in the house.
Last night however. a relapse in Miss Da-
Wis condition was noticed and throughout
the right she lost strength quite percepti-
bly,. This morning the physicians said
that the end was not far off and at noon
death came to end the suffering which at
times had been intense. Mrs. Davis had
watched unrcmittingly at her daughter .
bedside and she is bowed with sorrow at
the visit of the reaper. The physicians
OF Mrs. Davis report she is holding up
with great calmness in her afiiiction and
no fears are entertained as to her health
succumbing to the strain.
HER LAST APPEARANCE.
Atlanta. Ga. Sept 1S-Miss Winnie Da-
Wis appeared in public for the last time,
it is believed, in this city, July 81. The
occasion was the parade of eX-confedcr-
ates who held their annual reunion this
year in Atlanta. Miss Davis was n guest
of honor and occupied Il carriage with
Stunewall Jackson and Miss Caro- Lewis
Gordon. a daughter of Gen. Gordon. The
procession started under an suspicious
sky but before proceeding far. Il heavy
storm came up and the rain which fell In
torrents drenched the occupants of the
carriages.
SKETCH OF MISS DAVIS.
Boston. Sept. ls.-Annie Varina Davis
the daughter of the late Jefferson Davis
president of the Southern Confederacy
was born in Richmond I'm June. 1864. Hc
mother was Annie Haskell, and the SECOND
wife of Jefferson Davis, and her intanc!
| was passed at Fortress Monroe, durnl
her fathers imprisonment. Soon after hi!
release the family went to Liverpool Eng
land, and later to Germany, where Miss
! Davis received her education. She was
very proficient i'm the French and German
| languages, besides having had n fine must
social debut at New Orleans, as queen o
the carnival. some years after her father
death. and since then has been one of tn,
recognized leaders in Southern society.
She contributed many articles of review
and wrote the novels THE Yelled Doctor,
and the Knight of the Nineteenth Cen
tury." Her style was forcible and marke,
by great clearness. She was tall ant
stately in figure. with abundant BROW
hair and wonderfully expressive blue eyes
For the past 10 or Is years she and he
mother have spent their winters in New
York and their summers at various sea
side resorts She had been engaged t
Mr.. Wilkerson of Syracuse, but shortl
after her fathers death the engagement
was broken Off While no public explana
ton of the rupture was given out, it /
known 1t was for the purpose of main
tanning her fathers name.
She received the name Daughter of tn
Confedcracy' in 1886, when her fathc
made his famous trip through the South
Mr. Davis being unable to appear, Mis-
Winnie was brought before the thousand
at the different points along the route an
introduced as the daughter of the Confed
eracy.