Where did the Davises go when they left Richmond?
Jefferson Davis was captured in Georgia on May 10, 1865, and, after being imprisoned for two years in Fort Monroe, Virginia, joined his family in Canada, where they had settled temporarily. Jefferson Davis traveled much during the post-war years, visiting England, France, and many other locations; he and his family lived in Canada, Memphis, where he was the president of the Carolina Life Insurance Company, and at “Beauvoir” near Biloxi, Mississippi. He died in New Orleans in 1889. Varina left Mississippi following Jefferson Davis’ death and lived the remainder of her life in New York City, where she died in 1906. Only one of the Davises’ six children, Margaret Davis Hayes, married and had children and outlived both parents.