The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1906-10-18
MRS. JEFFERSON DAVIS
IS DEAD IN NEW YORK
Widow of President of the Confed.
crate States Of America.
SHE DIED IN NEW YORK CITY.
Had Been Ill Since the Sixth of Octo-
ber.-PaSSing OF Woman Greatly
Beloved BY the South.

New YORK Oct. l6.-Mrs. Varina
Davis, Y idow of jefferson Davis, presi-
dent Ct the Confederate States Of
America, died this evening in the Hotel
Majestic at 1915 O'Clock, after an i'll
ness Of several weeks. Mrs. Davis was
eighty years of age. Her only surviv-
ing child, Mrs. ]. Addison Hayes, of
Colorado Springs, Col, and several
other relatives were at her bedside.
Mrs. Davis, who has long been fee
/ BILE, contracted d severe cold last week
and her condition soon became serious.
/ She was attended at her apartments in
the Hotel Majestic by DR.. Robert H.
Wylie and her daughter, Mrs. J. Add
son Hayes, was hurriediy summoned
from Colorado Springs.
With her ability to resist disease
greatly lessoned because Of her age
Mrs. Davis grew worse until pneu-
monia developed
Mrs. DAVIS has made New York city
her home for several years, but spent
the summer in the country, returning
to the city in the autumn to live, usual
" in hotel. Last winter while stop
ping at hotel She was taken seriously
i'll as the result Of q cold, and, owing to
her age, it was feared that she would
not recover. After a weeks illness,
however, her health was restored.
Mrs. Davis returned from an all sum
mer visit to the Adirondacls week
ago, and went to Jhe Hotel Majestic
The day Of her arrival there she was
stricken with cold that developed into
pneumonia, which reached such an
alarming stage yesterday that near rel
atives were summoned to her bedside,
and those at a distance notified Of her
approaching death. Dr. Webb, husband
Of a granddaughter Of Mrs. Davis, is
one OF the physicians in charge Of the
case. Mr.. and Mrs. J. Hayes, the lat
ter the only surviving daughter Of Mrs.
Davis, and their son, W. y. Hayes, of
Colorado Springs, and DR.. and Mrs.
Webb are at the Majestic, and Jeffer-
son Hayes Davis, another grandson and
! q student at Princeton, came this morn
ing.
/ Mrs. Davis was very devoted to her
only surviving daughter and ito her
grandchildren, but she had never recov-
cred from the loss Of her daughter Win
ME, who died at Narragansett Pier in
1888, and who was beloved throughout
the southland as the daughter Of the
confederacy.
Mrs. Davis, before her marriage, was
Miss Varina Howell, granddaughter of
Gov. Richard Howell of New Jersey,
and daughter of William Burr and Mar
garet Kempe Howell She was born
in 1926 at Natchez, Miss, and was edu-
Gated at Madame Grelaud's school in
Philadelphia and by private teachers at
home. She married Mr. Davis of Miss
issippi in 1916 and was devoted wife
and most loyal companion during the
struggles Of the civil war. After Mr..
Davis release from imprisonment at
Fort Monroe they went to England, re-
turning afterward to live in Memphis,
Tenn. Later they removed to Beauvom
station, on the Mississippi coast, where
Mrs. Davis acted as her husbands
amanuensis when he wrote his Decline
and Fall of the Confederate Govern
ment." Since her husbands death in
1889 Mrs. Davis has written numerous
criticisms and articles for newspapers
and magazines. Her property, and, as
she has always declared, her heart are
in the south, but the state Of her health
has compelled her to live in a northern
climate. Mrs. Davis was eighty wears
old on May 7.