Author Topic: US Civil War widow dies...yes Civil War. (Read 290 times)

Thrawn · « **on:** January 20, 2003, 07:51:54 PM »

"Last Yankee war widow dies

One of the last living links with the American Civil war of the 1860s has been broken with the death of the last known widow of a soldier who fought on the Union side.
Gertrude Janeway, who was 93, married her veteran husband, John, in 1927 when she was 18 and he was 81, some 60 years after the Civil War ended.

She is to be buried near her husband's military grave at the cemetery of New Corinth Church in the town of Blaine, Tennessee. "

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/2677095.stm

Jeebus, would have never thought there was one still alive.

hawk220 · « **Reply #1 on:** January 20, 2003, 08:24:45 PM »

When we learn about the war in school it always seems like so many ages ago, but it really wasn't that far back at all.

Gman · « **Reply #2 on:** January 20, 2003, 08:37:01 PM »

81 and 18?!!?!?

Anna Nicole Smith must be the re-incarnated soul of that girl.

Leslie · « **Reply #3 on:** January 20, 2003, 09:26:32 PM »

I was fortunate to meet Alberta Martin, the last remaining widow of a Confederate soldier. She attended the SCV convention in Mobile several years ago. According to the article, she is the last surviving widow of a Civil War soldier.

Les

midnight Target · « **Reply #4 on:** January 20, 2003, 10:03:08 PM »

Gold digger!

whgates3 · « **Reply #5 on:** January 21, 2003, 01:18:55 AM »

maybe she was a serious civil war buff, or he was a cradle robbin' perv