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Jane Cook
(c. 1760–1845)
BIRTH
c. 1760–1761
PLACE
Unknown
DEATH
October 3, 1845
PLACE
Rosemont plantation, Woodville, Wilkinson County, Mississippi
FAMILY
HUSBAND
Samuel Emory Davis
(born c. 1755–1758; died 1824)
CHILDREN
Jefferson Davis
(1808-1889)
HOMES
RELIGIOUS VIEWS
RELIGION NOT DOCUMENTED
DENOMINATION NOT DOCUMENTED
MEMBERSHIPS
AWARDS
Jane Cook Davis was the mother of Jefferson Davis. She married Samuel Emory Davis in 1783 and had ten children. Records disagree on the identity of her father.
EARLY LIFE
CAREER
DEATH
After Samuel Emory Davis died in 1824, Jane Cook Davis remained at the family's Rosemont home. The Papers of Jefferson Davis at Rice University records that she died there on October 3, 1845, and was buried in the Rosemont cemetery. Her cause of death is not stated.
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