The last widow of a confederate soldier died just two years ago.
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.
I remember when the death of her husband was in the paper. The Civil War was still talked about when I was young.
Sorry. I missed “union”. I remember reading about the death of the last Confederate soldier, leaving an extremely young widow.