01-06-2021, 12:58 PM
The last known widow of a Civil War veteran has passed away... 155+ years after the end of the war, and not surprisingly 101 years after she was born.
Helen Viola Jackson, when seventeen years old, married a 93-year-old widower, a veteran of the Missouri Cavalry (the part of Missouri on the Union side), in 1936. He promised her a veteran's pension that would ease her life during the Great Depression. He died in 1939, and she lived 81 years after he died.
The last known widow of a Confederate veteran died in 2008.
Helen Viola Jackson, when seventeen years old, married a 93-year-old widower, a veteran of the Missouri Cavalry (the part of Missouri on the Union side), in 1936. He promised her a veteran's pension that would ease her life during the Great Depression. He died in 1939, and she lived 81 years after he died.
The last known widow of a Confederate veteran died in 2008.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.