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Marshfield, Mo. woman, believed to be last Civil War widow, dies at 101 Helen Viola Jackson is shown this April 2017 photo. Jackson was believed to be the last surviving widow of a Civil War soldier when she died Dec. 16, 2020 in Marshfield, Mo. She was 101. In 1936, she was 17 when she married 93-year-old former Union soldier James Bolin. She had been his caregiver and he wanted to marry her so she would receive his soldier s pension. But after he died in 1939, Jackson never applied for the pension. (Photo courtesy Nicholas Inman via AP)(Nicholas Inman | AP) (Source: AP) By Associated Press | January 7, 2021 at 3:55 PM CST - Updated January 7 at 9:15 PM
2021/01/08 04:37 Helen Viola Jackson is shown this April 2017 photo. Jackson was believed to be the last surviving widow of a Civil War soldier when she died Dec. 16,. Helen Viola Jackson is shown this April 2017 photo. Jackson was believed to be the last surviving widow of a Civil War soldier when she died Dec. 16, 2020 in Marshfield, Mo. She was 101. In 1936, she was 17 when she married 93-year-old former Union soldier James Bolin. She had been his caregiver and he wanted to marry her so she would receive his soldier s pension. But after he died in 1939, Jackson never applied for the pension. (Photo courtesy Nicholas Inman via AP)
Last Civil War Veteran s Widow Dies Aged 101 Published January 6th, 2021 - 12:39 GMT
Helen Viola Jackson died on December 16, at the age of 101. (Facebook)
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Helen Viola Jackson died on December 16 at her Missouri nursing home aged 101.
The last known widow of a Civil War soldier has died at the age of 101, ending a remarkable life story that she had kept to herself for over 80 years.
When Maudie Hopkins of Arkansas died in 2008, it was believed that there were no known Civil War widows left in the nation.
Then, in December 2017, Helen Viola Jackson of Marshfield, Missouri, decided to tell her own astonishing tale.
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