The Reuben Davis House, also known as Sunset Hill is a U.S. national historic place

National Register of Historic Places

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 located in Aberdeen, Mississippi, and the onetime residence of Mississippi

Mississippi

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 Rep. Reuben Davis

Reuben Davis (representative)

Reuben Davis was a United States Representative from Mississippi. He was born in Winchester, Tennessee into a family of Welsh origin and moved with his parents to Alabama about 1818. His grandfather Joseph Davis was born in Wales in 1763 and emigrated to Virginia. Reuben Davis attended the...

. It was purchased after the Civil War

American Civil War

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from cotton broker William Cunningham. Davis raised his family in the home, in which he also wrote the historical reference Recollections of Mississippi and Mississippians. He remained in Sunset Hill until his death in 1890.