United Daughters of the Confederacy®
Varina Howell Davis Chapter 2143
Houston, Texas
Organized September 18, 1946
Chartered February 22, 1947
Organized September 18, 1946
Chartered February 22, 1947
Meetings are held on the Third Saturday of each Month
at 2:00 p.m. at the
Hillendahl Public Library
2436 Gessner Rd.
Houston, Texas
Varina Howell Davis (1826–1906)
Varina Howell Davis was born near Natchez, Mississippi, on May 7, 1826. At eighteen, when she married Jefferson Davis, who was twice her age, she had developed a lively intellect and polished social graces. In Richmond during the Civil War, as the wife of the President of the Confederacy, Varina Davis admirably fulfilled her three primary roles as an affectionate spouse to a proud and sensitive husband, as an attentive mother to five young children (two of whom were born during the war), and as a socially engaging First Lady.
U.D.C. Membership
Membership is open to women no less than sixteen years of age who are blood descendants, lineal or collateral , of men and women who served honorably in the Army, Navy or Civil Service of the Confederate States of America, or gave Material Aid to the Cause. Also eligible are those women who are lineal descendants of members or former members of the UDC®. Adopted children are not eligible for membership by virtue of the adoptive parents bloodline, but solely by virtue of the natural or biological parents.
For more information on joining UDC®
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United Daughters of the Confederacy®
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http://www.hqudc.org/
