Last widowed civil war veteran passed away | Abroad

Jackson married James Bolin in 1936, who had promised to secure her financial future with his retirement. He was 93 at the time and she was 17. Bolin died in 1939, his husband did not remarry afterwards. She was entitled to a veteran’s pension, but according to the Sons of Union of the Civil War she was not entitled to it.

The two had come into contact through Jackson’s father, who would direct his daughter to the elderly veteran after every day of school to do chores.

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