Jim Limber the Adopted Mulatto Son of Jefferson Davis Was Another Child First

They put me in a dead boy’s clothes dead Joseph Except he wasn’t dead at first they put Me in his clothes dead Joseph’s     after Joseph Died and I used to call him Joe     they put Me in   Joe’s clothes at first before he died Joe wasn’t five yet when I met him      I Was seven     I was seven when he died Still but a whole year bigger then but I Wore his clothes still and the whole year I lived with Momma Varina      and with daddy Jeff I never lived so good as when I lived with Them and especially it was daddy Jeff Who kept me fed and wearing those nice clothes Until they fit as tight as bandages