Americas last known Civil War widow dead at 101

[echo4747]

Helen Viola Jackson: https://nypost.com/2021/01/06/helen-viola-jackson-last-known-civil-war-widow-dead-at-101/

i didnt think it was possible that a civil war widow could still be alive.. turns out she married her 93 year old husband at the age of 17

 

[shortylickens]

I thought she died 10 years ago.

This is suspicious.

 

[SKORPI0]

I thought she died 10 years ago.

This is suspicious.

Didn't the American Civil end like 1865. 54 years before she was born?
So its 1936, 93 yr old husband was born 1843? So he was about 22 years old when it ended.
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[Sonikku]

Patience. Give it a few years and we're bound to have a lot more civil war widows.

 

[IronWing]

Patience. Give it a few years and we're bound to have a lot more civil war widows.

We have one new widower as of yesterday. It’s got to be hard knowing your wife died waging violent insurrection on behalf of Donald f’ing Trump.

 

[lxskllr]

Was it an insurgent? They weren't clear yesterday.

 

[Hail The Brain Slug]

I thought she died 10 years ago.

This is suspicious.

The real question is......


Did she vote?

 

[IronWing]

Was it an insurgent? They weren't clear yesterday.

Yep, her husband said she was a Qanon junkie. She was busy trying to tear down a door in the capitol when she got herself shot.

 

[Lost_in_the_HTTP]

Helen Viola Jackson: https://nypost.com/2021/01/06/helen-viola-jackson-last-known-civil-war-widow-dead-at-101/

i didnt think it was possible that a civil war widow could still be alive.. turns out she married her 93 year old husband at the age of 17

Not sure if you'd call it fraud but it seems the reason was so she could claim his pension. Or at l;east that was the intent, but she never filed for it after his death 3 years after they got hitched. Apparently nobody back then knew anything about it either. It was secret until just very recently.

https://www.usnews.com/news/us/articles/2021-01-07/missouri-woman-believed-to-be-last-civil-war-widow-dies

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[iCyborg]

I was puzzled at first until finding out that they are using a rather weird definition of a war widow.
My view matches this one: https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/war-widow
"A war widow is a woman whose husband was killed while he was in the armed forces during a war."

It should be "Killed in action", not 70 years later from old age...

 

[Lost_in_the_HTTP]

Nothing claims that. Just how the words fall together. 'Civil War widow' simply means widow of a Civil War veteran.

 

[pmv]

Regardless of the debatable terminology/definition, it's still a reminder that "the past" wasn't that long ago, and that we aren't that many degrees of separation from it, I guess. The past may be "another country", as they say, but it's one many of us know immigrants from.