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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.
Last surviving General of the Civil War. Billy Rufus Stanford (1850–1937) – Confederate Navy. Last surviving Confederate sailor. Defended Columbus, Georgia during Sherman's March to the Sea with Company C of the Naval Battalion. [45] Adelbert Ames (1835–1933) – Union Army. Last surviving General of the Regular U.S. Army.
Ethel Kennedy, a matriarch of America's most celebrated political family who carried on her husband Robert F. Kennedy's fight for civil justice after witnessing his assassination on the night he ...
Albert Henry Woolson (February 11, 1850 – August 2, 1956) was the last known surviving [1] member of the Union Army who served in the American Civil War; he was also the last surviving Civil War veteran on either side whose status is undisputed. At least three men who outlived Woolson claimed to be Confederate veterans, but one has been ...
Ethel Kennedy, the Kennedy family matriarch who remained staunchly devoted to husband Robert F. Kennedy's legacy in the decades after his assassination, has died. She was 96. She was 96.
Walter Washington Williams (November 14, 1842 or 1854 – December 19, 1959) was an American man who claimed to have been a forager for Hood's Brigade, which if true made him the last surviving veteran of the American Civil War. [1] [2] However, serious doubts have been raised about the veracity of these claims.