The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-01

in this beautiful Church of the Redeemer after the ftful. pitiful days of the war, came Jefferson Davis and all that was left of his loved ones to worship there. He loved the quiet hamlet and it's simple church, and there at its altar he poured out the sorrows of a burdened heart to the Father who pittieth and the Father comforted and made him brave.
 This is why his faithfgl wife, woman of sorrows and acquainted with grief caused to be erected there the memorial windows to her husband and our chief tain, and to Winnie, her last companion, and our Daughter of the Confederacy. This is why we the United Daughters of the confederacy, have placed by their sides the chaste and appropriate stained glass memorial sacred to her who was left to suffer on almost alone.
 What a story it is-surely it's like has not a parallel in all sthe annals of time, and this is the end. Strangely enough too, and prophetic, let us hope is the fact that the courteous rector, Rev. MT. C. B. Crawford, who has been the tower of help to Mrs. Hayes and the daugh- ters in the completion of this pleasing task, is from over the other side of that line called Mason & DiXon's.
 There are six side windows in the Church of the Redeemer-three on the east and three on the west. Two of these windows are memorials to distinguished citizens of Boloxi-the others are to the memory of the Confederate President and his family, all of whom are at rest be- yond the river-save only one.
 The memorial windows to MT. Davis and Winnie were placed there more than a year ago, and are exquisite in design and workmanship. During the conven- ton of the United Daughters of the Con- 1 federacy at Gulfport, Miss, it was de- l cided by the Daughters that a similar window should be placed to the memory I of Mrs Davis in perfect keeping with the | other two windows The same firm was engaged to execute the work and a year | and more has not been any too long l for the perfecting of all details. In the 1 meantime Mrs. Hayes, the only sur i viving child, completed arrangements for the last window in memory of her broth CTS and her infant son the first grand !
 membered that the fatality among the Davis children was singularly sad. The 1 inscription on the window from Mrs. i Hayes is as follows, and tells pathetic tale, all it's own. Subject: Suffer Lit
 tie Children to Come Unto Me and For
 bid Them Not For Such Is the King l dom of Heaven.' Inscriptions: Erected 1 by Margaret Howell Davis Hayes in the year of our Lord 1907. To the glory of 1 God and in memory of her beloved | brother. Samuel Emory Davis, born July l 9. 1852; departed this life June 30, 1854 1 Jefferson Davis, Jr., born January 16. l 1857, departed this life October Is, 1S76; 1 Joseph Evan Davis. born April IS, 1859, | departed this life April 90, 1864; William l Howell Davis, born December IS. 1861, l departed this life October 16, 1873; also
 in memory of her beloved son, Jefferson Davis Hayes, born March 22. 1877. de- l parted this life June 24 1871; beloved sons and first grandson of Jefferson Davis'' l And this we read between the lines: l Died before their time. all her boys! | Oh! Mothers of the southland that simple record. of death, were alone enough to crush the strongest soul-and if she had | suffered naught else of all those un- speakable trials born by and through | her princely husband, it were still an
 
 1 to the world this small tribute of loving l respect.
 It is indeed singular how few southern | CTS remember the circumstances of the tragic death of little Joseph Davis who l was snatched away during the Virginia
 campaign Mrs Davis says: "On April l 30 when we were threatened on every | side and encompassed so perfectly that
 we could only hope by a miracle to I overcome our foes, MT. Davis's health
 declined from loss of sleep so that he l forgot to eat and l resumed the prac- 1, tice of carrying him something at 1 o'clock l left my children, quite well, ] playing in my room, and had just un-
 covered my basket in his office, when a l servant came for me. The most beauti- 1 full and brightest of my children, Joseph Emory. had, in play climbed over the
 connecting angle of a bannister and 1 fallen to the brick pavement below. He