Eliza Van Benthuysen Davis
(1811-1863)
Eliza Van Benthuysen Davis married Joseph Emory Davis, Jefferson Davis' eldest brother, in 1827. (Photograph c1859)
For more information, see Janet Sharp Hermann, Joseph E. Davis: Pioneer Patriarch (1990), and the published volumes of The Papers of Jefferson Davis.
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