Belles, beaux and brains of the 60's . nd word of descrip-tion, The Daughter of theConfederacy, formally sonamed and adopted by theunited camps of the Veterans,ended her promising career bysudden illness at NarragansettPier, September 18, 1898. In their latest trial it wasnot the heart of a section,but of a re-united nation,that went out to the aged widow and the strickensister. Time had softened war-born asperities, and onlythe weakest and most brutal cherished the misbegottenfalsities they bred. Men who had howled to Hang JeffDavis! through the North, had mellowed under secondthought. It was
Belles, beaux and brains of the 60's . nd word of descrip-tion, The Daughter of theConfederacy, formally sonamed and adopted by theunited camps of the Veterans,ended her promising career bysudden illness at NarragansettPier, September 18, 1898. In their latest trial it wasnot the heart of a section,but of a re-united nation,that went out to the aged widow and the strickensister. Time had softened war-born asperities, and onlythe weakest and most brutal cherished the misbegottenfalsities they bred. Men who had howled to Hang JeffDavis! through the North, had mellowed under secondthought. It was genuine and heart-born warmth from everyquarter that met the bereaved. Again Time has worked his miracle. Today WinnieDavis lives again in the universal love of the South and thetender respect of the North. She, like her brothers, had inherent traits, and strong her they had longer to develop into visible result. Butthe little fellows showed them early, and in Billie theywere of sweet and tender promise. In Jeff they took ex-. WINNIE DAVIS BELLES, BEAUX AND BRAINS OF THE SIXTIES 73 pression and told strong truths at an age when those of mostchildren are dumb. Early in her Richmond life Mrs. Davis selected as teacherfor her children the eldest of the daughters of Judge RaleighT. Daniel, Misses Augusta, Lizzie and Charlotte. Highly-educated and of studious bent, yet genial and popular socially,this lady became as devoted to her charge as she was fitted forit. After the lapse of years her memory of the Davis house-hold, great and small, is as reminiscent as it is loyal and tender. Margaret Howell Davis was her grandmothers was more hke her father than her mother. In 1876 Little Maggie, married Joel Addison Hayes, nowof Colorado Springs. There she is refusing to grow old, al-though surrounded by a grown family and grandchildren. The eldest son, named for his grandfather, died in Howell Davis Hayes isnow the wife of Dr. GeraldBertram Webb. The se
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