where is jefferson davis buried?
Hollywood Cemetery
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 Davis appeared on several postage stamps issued by the Confederacy , including its first postage stamp ( issued in 1861 ) . In 1995 , his portrait appeared on a United States postage stamp , part of a series of 20 stamps commemorating the 130th anniversary of end of the Civil War . Davis was also celebrated on the 6 @-@ cent Stone Mountain Memorial Carving commemorative on September 19 , 1970 , at Stone Mountain , Georgia . The stamp portrayed Jefferson Davis , Robert E. Lee and Thomas J. " Stonewall " Jackson on horseback . It depicts a replica of the actual memorial , carved into the side of Stone Mountain at 400 feet ( 120 m ) above ground level , the largest high relief sculpture in the world . 

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 His funeral was one of the largest in the South . Davis was first entombed at the Army of Northern Virginia tomb at Metairie Cemetery in New Orleans . In 1893 , Mrs. Davis decided to have his remains reinterred at Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond . After the remains were exhumed in New Orleans , they lay for a day at Memorial Hall of the newly organized Louisiana Historical Association , with many mourners passing by the casket , including Governor Murphy J. Foster , Sr. The body was placed on a Louisville and Nashville Railroad car and transported to Richmond , Virginia . A continuous cortège , day and night , accompanied his body from New Orleans to Richmond . He is interred at Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond . 

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 The exact location within the cemetery of his remains is unknown . While there is a vault beneath the 1858 cenotaph , it contains a time capsule from the time of the monument 's erection . 

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 Numerous memorials to Jefferson Davis were created . The largest is the 351 @-@ foot ( 107 m ) concrete obelisk located at the Jefferson Davis State Historic Site in Fairview , marking his birthplace . Construction of the monument began in 1917 and finished in 1924 at a cost of about $ 200 @,@ 000 . 

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 Stuart 's family recovered from their financial troubles roughly ten years later , and they planned to move his body to a family cemetery in Newport , Rhode Island . However , they could not remember the exact location of his body , and it was never moved . 
