Who can resist Jefferson Davis pie?
Connie Anderson Published Friday, June 5, 2009 Jefferson Davis was born June 3 in Kentucky. The year amazingly enough is not precisely known. Davis would plead, with a faint sparkle of wit, “I am not a competent witness in the case.” 1808 has been officially accepted and therefore it was last year that Mrs. Grundy followed the Jefferson Davis celebrations during the 200th anniversary of his birth in “her” column in The Andalusia Star-News. This is for you Mrs. Grundy. Samuel and Jane Cook Davis settled in the Mississippi Territory in 1810 near Woodville in the far southwest of Mississippi. They came with their children, the youngest being the 2-year-old Jefferson. Their Rosemont Plantation home is about 10 miles from where I now live. It was there that Davis in the latter years of his life recalled “my memories began.” Davis graduated from West Point. He was a decorated military hero in the Mexican War. He would later serve in both houses of Congress from Mississippi. He was Secretary
