Helen Viola Jackson, the last known surviving widow of a Civil War veteran, has died at the age of 101. Her death was confirmed by the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War on Monday. Jackson died ...

LITTLE ROCK -- News reports in May that the last widow of a Civil War soldier had died in Alabama prompted relatives of an Arkansas woman to verify her claims, kept private for decades, that her late ...

This is really bizarre. <BR><BR>A 91 year old woman recently died. At age 18, she married an 81 year old civil war vet in the 1920s. She lived with him for 10 years in a log cabin in the hills of ...

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 ...

ELBA, Ala. (AP) - In stories about the May 31 death and June 12 burial of Civil War widow Alberta Martin, The Associated Press erroneously described her as being the last widow of a Confederate or ...

If Scarlett O'Hara had received a Civil War widow's pension, she might have spared herself two more husbands—and a whole lot of trouble. Widows of Civil War soldiers who received survivor pensions ...