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Last Civil War Widow Dies at 101 The Civil War ended in 1865. How is this possible? The Associated Press reports that 101-year-old Helen Viola Jackson of Marshfield, Missouri married a man named James Bolin in 1936. She was 17, and he was 93. According to Jackson, she and her husband did not live together and were never intimate. He married her so that she would receive his pension after he died. It was meant to repay her kindness for helping care for him in his old age. Bolin served on the Union side of the war as part of the 14th Missouri Cavalry. Jackson never told anyone of her wedd...

Last known widow of a Civil War soldier dies at 101 Tim Balk Helen Viola Jackson, the one-time spouse of elderly Union soldier who wished to leave her his pension, died last month at 101 as the last known Civil War widow, according to Sons of Union Veterans. Jackson died Dec. 16. at the Webco Manor nursing home in Marshfield, Mo. She was 17 when she married James Bolin, a 93-year-old who had served in the 14th Missouri Cavalry, according to the Missouri Cherry Blossom Festival, where she volunteered. Bolin wanted to pass his pension on to Jackson after she volunteered to do ch...