married to Kate Pulitzer, a distant Davis cousin and friend of Varina's. The Davis women lived in a series of residential hotels, eventually settling at the Gerard Hotel in what is now the theater district. During this time, Davis also wrote for national magazines, such as The Ladies Home Journal. She published two novels: The Veiled Doctor: A Novel (reprinted 2015) and a A Romance of Summer Seas (1898, reprinted 2009). Both books were moderately successful. Death In July 1898, Winnie Davis became deathly ill. She had been soaked in a rainstorm at a Confederate Veterans' Reunion in Atlanta, Georgia, then traveled by train to meet her mother in Narragansett Pier, Rhode Island. They vacationed there annually in the summer at the fashionable Rockingham Hotel. Doctors diagnosed Davis with "malarial gastritis". She had already suffered for years from gastritis. (It has been associated with bacterial infection.) Davis suffered for weeks from fever, chills, and loss of appetite. The Rockingham Hotel closed for the season in early September, but the management allowed Davis and her mother to stay on. Davis died there on September 18, 1898. She was 34 years old. Her mother arranged for her daughter to be buried in Richmond's Hollywood Cemetery, with military honors because of her service to Confederate veterans' groups. She was next to the graves of her father and brothers, who had been reinterred here. Davis was survived by her mother Varina and by her sister Margaret (Davis) Addison Hayes, then living in Colorado Springs, Colorado with her husband Joel Addison Hayes, and her sister's children. Among their several children was a daughter, Varina Howell Davis Hayes. The youngest Varina later married Gerald Bertram Webb. Among their children was daughter named Varina Margaret Webb. Works "Foreign Education for American Girls" (1889), monograph A Romance of Summer Seas (1898), novel Biography Mary Craig Sinclair, The Romance History of Winnie Davis (unpublished) Heath Hardage Lee, Winnie Davis: Daughter of the Lost Cause, University of Nebraska Press, Potomac Press: 2014 References Sources External links 1864 births 1898 deaths American columnists American people of English descent American people of Welsh descent Burials at Hollywood Cemetery (Richmond, Virginia) Deaths from gastritis Jefferson Davis family Writers from Richmond, Virginia American women columnists 19th-century American journalists 19th-century American women writers Journalists from Mississippi American women novelists 19th-century American novelists Journalists from Virginia Novelists from Virginia Lost Cause of the Confederacy Daughters of