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By Zack Budryk - 01/05/21 09:56 PM EST   A woman believed to be the last living widow of a Civil War veteran has died at 101. Helen Viola Jackson died Dec. 16 at Marshfield, Mo.’s Webco Manor Nursing Home, the Missouri Cherry Blossom Festival said in a statement. Jackson recently told a minister she had married James Bolin, a 93-year-old widower who served in the 14 th Missouri Cavalry, when she was 17, according to the statement. The Daughters of the Union Veterans were able to corrobor...

(Missouri Cherry Blossom Festival) When Helen Viola Jackson was born, the year was 1919 and the United States had just finished fighting World War I. When her husband James Bolin was born, it was 1843 and the U.S. had yet to fight World War I. Or the Spanish-American War. Or the Plains Wars. Or the Civil War. Or the Mexican War. You get the idea. Jackson married Bolin in September 1936, when she was just 17 years old. Bolin, who fought in the Civil War, was 93. Its a situation akin to a Gen-Zer...