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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.
Triplett was born in 1930 to Mose Triplett, age 83, and Elida Hall, age 34. [1] [2] She was one of five children, of whom only she and her brother survived childhood. [3]Her father, who had fought for both the Confederacy and the Union during the Civil War, was aged 78 when he married her mother; their union was Mose Triplett's second marriage.
'Reputed Last Civil War Veteran Dies in Texas After Long Illness: Walter Williams Put His Age at 117 – Tributes Note the End of an Era'. The New York Times. December 20, 1959. Retrieved November 7, 2010. Bridwell, Lloyd K. Texan's Civil War Role in Doubt As Records Indicate Age Is 104, New York Times, September 3, 1959. Carroll, H. Bailey.
Whaley née Kear was born on May 24, 1840, in Sevier County, Tennessee.In 1860, she married John Whaley, with whom she had three children, two survived infancies. John Whaley died in 1864, while fighting for the Union army in the American Civil War. [1]
Mrs. MacArthur died of natural causes in Lenox Hill Hospital in Manhattan at age 101. [1] She is entombed with her husband in the rotunda of the MacArthur Memorial in Norfolk, Virginia , the hometown of Gen. MacArthur's mother.
Ethel Kennedy, RFK’s Long-Devoted Widow, Dies at 96. Kathy Ehrich Dowd. October 10, 2024 at 12:33 PM. Ethel Skakel Kennedy reads to her children as they all sit on a sofa, McLean, Virginia ...
Joseph Evan Davis, born on April 18, 1859, died at the age of five due to an accidental fall on April 30, 1864. [20] William Howell Davis, born on December 6, 1861, was named for Varina's father; he died of diphtheria on October 16, 1872. [21] Varina Anne "Winnie" Davis was born on June 27, 1864, two months after Joseph's death. Known as the ...
Joan Plowright, perhaps the greatest Anglophone actor of the 20th century and the widow of Laurence Oliver, died on Thursday. She was 95. Plowright was a prominent actress of stage and screen in ...