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tees, | give and beQueath all the pro
perty, real, personal and mixed. of
which | may die seized and possessed.
and which has not been disposed OF
by the preceding articles.
appoint my tried and true friend,
Jacob L. Payne of New Orleans, La,
and my son-inlaw, J. Addison Hayes
Jr. of Memphis. Tenn, executors of
this my last will and testament, they
to serve without bond, and to have
immediate seizure and possession of
all my property contemporaneously
with the happening Of my death, and
to each / delegate the power to select
and appoint his successor. to take eff
feet in the contingency of the death
Of either, before the affairs of the es-
tate have been finally settled
In testimony whereof this will writ
ten by my own hand is signed on the
day and date below written, and in the
presence of Frank Kennedy, r. W.
Foster and w. Evans.
JEFFERSON DAVIS.
Saturday. Goth Fbe 1886.
On this Saturday the twentieth day
of February, A. d. one thousand eight
hundred and eighty-six, the above
named Jefferson Davis, signed and
sealed this instrument and published
and delivered the same as, and for his
last will and we in his presence,
and at his request and in the presence
of each other have hereunto subscrib-
ed our names as witnesses.
Witnesses.
r. w. FOSTER,
A. EVANS,
EpANK EE,NNEnV
Filed Deer. 10th, 1889
F. S. HEWES, Clerk.
Recorded Record Of Wills Book /,
pages 2S2 and 2S3
Twelve years after the writing of
the will OF Jefferson Davis. and nine
years after his death, which occurred
in 1889, Miss Varina Anne Davis, more
familarly known as Winnie Davis, and
lovingly termed the Daughter of the
COnfederacy, was living with her
mother in the State of New York,
whittier a train OF circumstances had
led them from their far distant home
in the Southland
On the eve OF her departure for a
trip to Egypt. Winnie Davis devised
and wrote the following as her last
will and testament, every line of which
breathes loving filial devotion. and a
touching feature of which is her re-
membrance of her dear old nurse:
WILL OF WINNIE DAVIS.
|, Varina Anne Davis, being of
sound mind on this the eleventh day OF
February. 1895, and about to sail for
Egypt. write this my last will and tes-
lament. | give and bequeath to my
beloved mother, Varina Howell Jeffer-
son-Davis, everything l have. both real
and personal property, and any re-
turns that may come from my literary
work, any stocks, bonds or monies of
which | die possessed.
| beg her to give a remembrance out
of my jeWelry to my dear cousin, Anna
Smith, and to my dear old nurse, Mary
Ahirn. My dear mother is to Judge
what she would like to give to my dear
sister, Margaret Hayes, and her chill
dren to remember me by. I know she
will do what I wish done.
sign this in the Gerard Hotel, 123
18th ST., New York City, n, Y, Feb.
18th. 1898
tSigned) VARINA ANNE DAVIS.
Ne Varetur,
New Orleans, October 9th. 1898
(Signed} FRED D. KING, Judge.
Witnesses:
A. A. Maginnis.
f. 7. Manning.
Sworn to and subscribed before me,
this 21th day Of October, 1898
tSigned) FRED D. KING, Judge.
Three years after the death of Win
ME Davis in 1895, Mrs. jefferson Davis
made her last will and testament in
1901. This document, though publish
ed at the time of her death, will make
interesting reading now, and com