squillis
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103
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Source: https://www.fox5ny.com/news/helen-viola-jackson-last-known-civil-war-widow-dead-at-101
wuttwuttinthebuttbutt
https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2020/06/04/she-was-last-american-collect-civil-war-pension-7313-month-she-just-died/
CheesecakePi
That was... much more heart-warming than I expected from a 1930s marriage between a 93 year old man and a 17 year old girl.
RetrogradeLlama
Wild.
TalkingSnake
Oh sure, but when Anna Nicole Smith does it
StrangePaegan
I cheered her on, too. She made an old man happy in his later years.
TheCoachAdair
So for only 20 of her 101 years, she wasn’t feeling shame? ?
kevinbaken
She didn't collect 84 years of a pension?! WHY?!
KaraokeLemur
Because money isn't always that important, even if you aren't rich ashtray. (Meant to say "already", but auto-cucumba did ok.)
squillis
Sounds like she a had a lot of respect for him and didn't want his public image tarnished by a young girl claiming to be his wife
FelonyRaptor
Hey I think I heard a Kiss song about this? It's called Goin' Blind.
FelonyRaptor
Well they had us in the first part. Damn.
HogWashDiddler