Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 104, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 September 1899 — Once the Home of Jeff Davis. [ARTICLE]

Once the Home of Jeff Davis.

At Fort Gibson, in the Indian Ten! tory, eighty miles south of Coffejrvjfl stands the house that was occupied;,!* Jeff Davis while be did garrison chH there as a lieutenant before the dM lean war. He went to the old fortjtjS after marrying Gen. Taylor’s daughhJ and was there several years. Thll||flj house has been beaten by the until the chimneys at the ends h*®| fallen. <