Reuben Davis

Davis wrote the memoir; the census wrote the rest. In 1840 he held 4 enslaved people, in 1850 18, and in 1860 42, figures cited from census records. He represented Mississippi in Congress from 1857 to 1861 and left when the state seceded, then sat in the Confederate Congress and served as a brigadier general of state troops in 1862. He bought the Greek Revival house called Sunset Hill and, near the end of his life, published Recollections of Mississippi and Mississippians. He died in Huntsville, Alabama, in 1890.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Howlin' Wolf Memorial and Blues Trail Marker — 16 mi
  A Mississippi Blues Trail marker and granite memorial on East Broad Street honoring Chester Burnett, who was born nearby in 1910 and became the Chicago blues giant Howlin' Wolf.
• Waverley Mansion — 18 mi
  A National Historic Landmark mansion above the Tombigbee River, home of a plantation family that enslaved more than a hundred people, left empty for half a century before a family restored it.
• Tennessee Williams Welcome Center — 24 mi
  The 1875 Episcopal rectory where Tennessee Williams was born in 1911, moved to Main Street in the 1990s and now Columbus's welcome center and a National Literary Landmark.
• Chickasaw Council House — 27 mi
  A roadside exhibit on the Natchez Trace Parkway marking the Chickasaw capital of the 1820s and the council house where the 1832 treaty of Pontotoc Creek ended Chickasaw title to Mississippi.

More markers nearby

• Aberdeen — 0.3 mi
• Dr. W.A. Evans — 0.4 mi
• Aberdeen Mississippi Blues — 0.7 mi
• DeSoto Expedition — 0.9 mi