[Leaning Right]

Either he or she must have been very exceptional in some way.

Old Civil War vet marries a much younger woman...I have read elsewhere that this was not uncommon back in the 1920s and 30s.

Those were hard times for many folks. I'm not saying it was the case here, but a Civil War pension (with rights of survivorship) could have looked mighty attractive to a desperate younger woman.

[Kozak]

And Not likely to be a very ,er, demanding position with such an old coot....