Woman believed to be last Civil War widow dies at 101
Updated Jan 08, 2021;
Posted Jan 08, 2021
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.Photo courtesy Nicholas Inman via AP
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O’FALLON, Mo. (AP) Helen Viola Jackson’s 1936 marriage to James Bolin was unusual to say the least: He was 93 and in declining health, and she was a 17-year-old schoolgirl.
Bolin was also a Civil War veteran who fought for the Union in the border state of Missouri. Jackson was almost certainly the last remaining widow of a Civil War soldier when she died Dec. 16 at a nursing home in Marshfield, Missouri. She was 101.
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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)