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Inside The Life And Death Of The Last Civil War Widow Rischgitz/Getty Images By Karen Corday/Jan. 21, 2021 10:09 am EDT/Updated: Feb. 1, 2021 9:17 pm EDT It's hard to imagine that anyone alive in the year 2020 would have an incredible, zero degrees of separation personal connection to someone who fought in the Civil War, but when Helen Viola Jackson died in December 2020, it was the end of an era. Jackson, 101 years old, was thought to be the last living widow of a Civil War veteran, as reported by The Washington Post.  This unlikely partnership came to be in 1936 when Jac...

Last Civil War Veteran's Widow Dies Aged 101 Published January 6th, 2021 - 12:39 GMT Helen Viola Jackson died on December 16, at the age of 101. (Facebook) Highlights Helen Viola Jackson died on December 16 at her Missouri nursing home aged 101. The last known widow of a Civil War soldier has died at the age of 101, ending a remarkable life story that she had kept to herself for over 80 years. When Maudie Hopkins of Arkansas died in 2008, it was believed that there were no known Civil War widows left in the nation. Then, in December 2017, Helen Viola Jackson of Marshfield, Missouri, ...

Helen Viola Jackson died on December 16 at her Missouri nursing home aged 101 She had married Civil War veteran James Bolin in 1936, when he was 93 Bolin asked her to marry him because he wanted her to have his Union pension  Bolin died three years later, but Jackson never claimed his pension Bolin's daughter threatened to ruin Jackson's reputation if she took the money Jackson said that Bolin was a kindly man who wanted to help her financially Jackson never remarried or had children, and devoted herself to her community