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Helen Viola Jackson's 1936 marriage to James Bolin was unusual to say the least: He was 93 and in declining health, and she was a 17-year-old schoolgirl.
Bolin was also a Civil War veteran who fought for the Union in the border state of Missouri. Jackson was almost certainly the last remaining widow of a Civil War soldier when she died Dec. 16 at a nursing home in Marshfield, Missouri. She was 101.
I'm thinking along the same lines. She may of been in some ways like the Anna Nicole Smith of her day, well, except she didn't die nearly as young as Anna.Now that must of been a very strange relationship. I wonder how much money the old man had. I also wonder about the IQ of Helen.
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I was going to say that I read something within a year ago about the last civil war pension check going out to someone who through some obscure means managed to collect $12 a month finally dying at well over 100 years old.Guess I should have read the link before I commented. It was during the great depression. She was serving as his caretaker. He offered to marry her so she could collect his pension. She took him up on it. It was a marriage on paper only. She never lived with him and apparently they didn't consummate the marriage. Then after he die she didn't even collect his pension or tell anyone she was "married" to him because she was too embarrassed.
So in my opinion there should be an "*" by the statement that she is the last civil war widow.
Yes, I was thinking along those same lines.Guess I should have read the link before I commented. It was during the great depression. She was serving as his caretaker. He offered to marry her so she could collect his pension. She took him up on it. It was a marriage on paper only. She never lived with him and apparently they didn't consummate the marriage. Then after he died she didn't even collect his pension or tell anyone she was "married" to him because she was too embarrassed.
So in my opinion there should be an "*" by the statement that she is the last civil war widow.
Now that must of been a very strange relationship. I wonder how much money the old man had. I also wonder about the IQ of Helen.
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Guess I should have read the link before I commented. It was during the great depression. She was serving as his caretaker. He offered to marry her so she could collect his pension. She took him up on it. It was a marriage on paper only. She never lived with him and apparently they didn't consummate the marriage. Then after he died she didn't even collect his pension or tell anyone she was "married" to him because she was too embarrassed.
So in my opinion there should be an "*" by the statement that she is the last civil war widow.
$12/month was a nice chunk of money during the great depression.I was going to say that I read something within a year ago about the last civil war pension check going out to someone who through some obscure means managed to collect $12 a month finally dying at well over 100 years old.Guess I should have read the link before I commented. It was during the great depression. She was serving as his caretaker. He offered to marry her so she could collect his pension. She took him up on it. It was a marriage on paper only. She never lived with him and apparently they didn't consummate the marriage. Then after he die she didn't even collect his pension or tell anyone she was "married" to him because she was too embarrassed.
So in my opinion there should be an "*" by the statement that she is the last civil war widow.
The devastation democrooks have caused this country will continue to be a problem for centuries, but I suspect the powers behind the throne will collapse the institutions and the currency before much longer and create a crisis that will make the civil war look like a high school food fight. They want to cull the herd after all.
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1. Maintain humanity under 500,000,000 in perpetual balance with nature.
That's a pretty significant reduction. Mao and Stalin must me looking up from hell and saying...
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I agree, it would of been a good business deal for both involved.Guess I should have read the link before I commented. It was during the great depression. She was serving as his caretaker. He offered to marry her so she could collect his pension. She took him up on it. It was a marriage on paper only. She never lived with him and apparently they didn't consummate the marriage. Then after he died she didn't even collect his pension or tell anyone she was "married" to him because she was too embarrassed.
So in my opinion there should be an "*" by the statement that she is the last civil war widow.
For quite a while now, all the "Civil War widows" that have been dying have been along the same lines: young women who exchanged caretaking for an elderly Civil War vet for the ability to collect his pension as his widow.
Which sounds greedy and mercenary until you consider that those are sort of the roles you sign up for when you get married, anyway . . . or they were back then.
I agree, it would of been a good business deal for both involved.Guess I should have read the link before I commented. It was during the great depression. She was serving as his caretaker. He offered to marry her so she could collect his pension. She took him up on it. It was a marriage on paper only. She never lived with him and apparently they didn't consummate the marriage. Then after he died she didn't even collect his pension or tell anyone she was "married" to him because she was too embarrassed.
So in my opinion there should be an "*" by the statement that she is the last civil war widow.
For quite a while now, all the "Civil War widows" that have been dying have been along the same lines: young women who exchanged caretaking for an elderly Civil War vet for the ability to collect his pension as his widow.
Which sounds greedy and mercenary until you consider that those are sort of the roles you sign up for when you get married, anyway . . . or they were back then.
she never took his pensionNow that must of been a very strange relationship. I wonder how much money the old man had. I also wonder about the IQ of Helen.
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I believe it was actually a common thing at that time. 1936, when she married him, would have been the middle of the Great Depression, remember. For elderly veterans without any relatives or close friends, it was a good deal to marry a woman who would need the money to exchange that pension as a widow for someone to take care of them as they died. And it would have been a good and smart deal from her point of view, as well.
she never took his pensionNow that must of been a very strange relationship. I wonder how much money the old man had. I also wonder about the IQ of Helen.
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I believe it was actually a common thing at that time. 1936, when she married him, would have been the middle of the Great Depression, remember. For elderly veterans without any relatives or close friends, it was a good deal to marry a woman who would need the money to exchange that pension as a widow for someone to take care of them as they died. And it would have been a good and smart deal from her point of view, as well.
