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Show It may have been noticed that the widow of Jefferson Davis, since his death, signs her name "V. Jefferson Davis."- Many persons doubtless suppose she ha3 added the name of Jefferson to her christian name Varina. But this is not the proper explanation. V. is the abbreviation of veuve, tbe French for widow, and it is the custom in Louisiana, and perhaps in other part3 of the south, for widows to place that k-tter before the Christian naaus.of their deceased husbands. V. Jefferson Davis simply moans the widow of Jefferson Davis. |