Jefferson Davis On June 3 of the year 1808, Jane Davis gave birth to her tenth and final child with her husband Samuel Davis. The child was named Jefferson Finis Davis. Jefferson's parents named him after their favorite president Thomas Jefferson. The child's middle name, Finis, is Latin for "the end" for his parents believed this was their last child. Little Jeff was what he was known as. He seemed to have been born under a lucky …
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…the American newspaper publisher Horace Greeley and other influential Northerners. In 1868 the federal government dropped the case against him. Davis spent the final years of his life studying and writing at "Beavoir", his home in Mississippi. He published his book, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government in 1881. He died on December 6, 1889 and was buried in New Orleans, Louisiana. His body was moved to Richmond, Virginia in 1893 and buried permanently in the Hollywood Cemetery.