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the last widow of a Civil War veteran died in December 2020, at the age of 101.

Oct 23, 2022•1 min read

Fun Fact: the last widow of a Civil War veteran died in December 2020, at the age of 101.

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that the last person to receive a pension from the American Civil War died in 2020. Irene Triplett s father fought for both the Confederacy and the Union in the Civil War. She was 90 at the time of her death and had been receiving a pension benefit of $73.13 per month.

Helen Viola Jackson, who was only 17 when she married the 93 year old Civil War veteran James Bolin, passed away in 2020. She had married Bolin so that she would be eligible for his pension, though she never applied for it. Jackson had been helping Bolin with chores prior to their marriage.

Mad magazine cartoonist, Al Jaffee at age 101, currently holds the longest-ever career as a comic artist working from 1942 2020.

of Varina Davis, first lady of the Confederacy. Criticized for her olive skin tone and high level of literacy, she later became a newspaper columnist, was friends with Julia Grant (widow of Ulysses S. Grant) and declared in an article in 1901 that the right side won the civil war .

At the 1938 Gettysburg Reunion, veterans of The American Civil War, who were on average 94 years old, gathered together.

about Dina Sanichar, a boy who was raised by wolves until the age of six, when he was discovered by hunters (1867). He was never really able to adapt himself to civilized society and died in 1895 of tuberculosis.

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