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Helen Viola Jackson (August 3, 1919 – December 16, 2020) was the last surviving widow of a Union soldier and the last surviving widow of a Civil War veteran overall; she died on December 16, 2020, at the age of 101.
Triplett was born in 1930 to Mose Triplett, age 83, and Elida Hall, age 34. [1] [2] She was one of five children, of whom only she and her brother survived childhood. [3]Her father, who had fought for both the Confederacy and the Union during the Civil War, was aged 78 when he married her mother; their union was Mose Triplett's second marriage.
Whaley née Kear was born on May 24, 1840, in Sevier County, Tennessee.In 1860, she married John Whaley, with whom she had three children, two survived infancies. John Whaley died in 1864, while fighting for the Union army in the American Civil War. [1]
Mary Anna Morrison – popularly known by friends and family as Anna – was born at Cottage Home, the family plantation near Lincolnton, North Carolina. [1] [2] Her father, Robert Hall Morrison, was a Presbyterian preacher and the first president of Davidson College, and her mother, Mary Graham, was the sister of William Alexander Graham, a Senator and later Governor of North Carolina, as ...
Albert Henry Woolson (February 11, 1850 – August 2, 1956) was the last known surviving [1] member of the Union Army who served in the American Civil War; he was also the last surviving Civil War veteran on either side whose status is undisputed. At least three men who outlived Woolson claimed to be Confederate veterans, but one has been ...
Ethel Kennedy, RFK’s Long-Devoted Widow, Dies at 96. Kathy Ehrich Dowd. October 10, 2024 at 3:33 PM. Ethel Skakel Kennedy reads to her children as they all sit on a sofa, McLean, Virginia, early ...
Elizabeth Bacon Custer (née Bacon; April 8, 1842 – April 4, 1933) was the wife of Brevet Major General George Armstrong Custer, United States Army.She spent most of their twelve-year marriage in relative proximity to him despite his numerous military campaigns in the American Civil War and subsequent postings on the Great Plains as a commanding officer in the United States Cavalry.
Now his widow is suing. ... 2023 at 12:23 PM. A woman’s husband died soon after working on the set of “American Horror Story” in Massachusetts where the TV series was filming in early 2021 ...