Helen Viola Jackson, the last known surviving widow of a Civil War veteran, has died at the age of 101. Her death was confirmed by the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War on Monday. Jackson died ...

He never came home. He was 26 years old with a wife and young daughter who would never see him again, never know fully what ...

Alberta Martin, the last known widow of a civil war veteran, has died at the age of 97. Alberta Martin married William Japser Martin, a Confederate veteran, in 1927, when she was 21 and he was 81.

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. O’FALLON, Mo. (AP) — Helen Viola Jackson’s ...

ELBA, Ala. (AP) - In stories about the May 31 death and June 12 burial of Civil War widow Alberta Martin, The Associated Press erroneously described her as being the last widow of a Confederate or ...

If Scarlett O'Hara had received a Civil War widow's pension, she might have spared herself two more husbands—and a whole lot of trouble. Widows of Civil War soldiers who received survivor pensions ...

BLAINE, Tenn. -- Gertrude Janeway, the last widow of a Union veteran from the Civil War, has died in the three-room log cabin where she lived most of her life. She was 93. Bedridden for years, she ...