Bolin was also a Civil War veteran who fought for the Union in the border state of Missouri. Jackson was almost certainly the last remaining widow of a Civil War soldier when she died Dec. 16 at a nursing home in Marshfield, Missouri. She was 101.
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Just in time for CW2 to make a whole new batch of widiws.
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Gotta make those gummint pensions last as long as possible.
ReplyDeleteFunny thing is if you had actually read the article this woman never collected the vet's pension.
DeleteIt was a very common thing, however. Death-bed Civil War vets would marry very young women to give them at least some level of income for life.
Delete...there is a story about a new Southern state legislator aspiring to be up and coming by making a name for himself orating to cut waste spending like pensions for widows of Confederate Veterans (he assuming they were also dead). He was interrupted by the cold voice of the Speaker "Just talked to my Grandma this morning, and she was still alive"...(Good bye political career)...
ReplyDeleteA 93 yr old civil war spouse that never took the retirement of her late husband because she didn't like the idea of getting something she didn't feel she deserved. I ll bet a dollar to a doughnut hole she knew when and where we went wrong in America.
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