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Last widow of a Civil War veteran dies at 101: Woman who married 93-year-old aged 17 passes away

Helen Viola Jackson died on December 16 at her Missouri nursing home aged 101 She had married Civil War veteran James Bolin in 1936, when he was 93 Bolin asked her to marry him because he wanted her to have his Union pension  Bolin died three years later, but Jackson never claimed his pension Bolin s daughter threatened to ruin Jackson s reputation if she took the money Jackson said that Bolin was a kindly man who wanted to help her financially Jackson never remarried or had children, and devoted herself to her community 

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