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Helen Jackson (1919–2020), last known widow of a Civil War veteran

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Helen Jackson was the last known surviving widow of a Civil War veteran.Jackson volunteered as a caregiver to Civil War veteran James Bolin when she was a young woman and he, a neighbor, was in his final years.

He appreciated her help, but he couldn’t afford to pay her – so he offered to marry her so she would inherit his Civil War pension when he died.

The two were wed in 1936, when she was 17 and he was 93. Jackson told few people of the marriage, not wanting to invite salacious gossip about the arrangement.

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