The Last Surviving Widow of a Civil War Veteran Dies at 101

[RJNorton]

Helen Viola Jackson married James Bolin in 1936, when she was 17 and he was 93.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-new...180976702/

Many thanks to Bob Cook for sending the above link.

[Gene C]

Thanks for posting Bob


Here is an article from the Daily Mail, with a few photo's

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...-away.html

[Eva Elisabeth]

Amazing! In the 1930s photo her face looks like in the "nowadays" one.

[Steve]

If, as the article claims, she never lived with the man and the children objected - I don't think the pension office would've given her a pension if she applied.