TIL The last "Civil War Widow," Helen Viola Jackson, lived until 2020. Jackson was married to James Bolin, a 93-year-old Civil War veteran, at the age of seventeen and died just four years ago at the age of 101.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War_widows_who_survived_into_the_21st_century
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