Did you know the last Civil War widow died in 2020? She was born on August 3, 1919, less than a year after the end of World War I, Helen Jackson grew up in Niangua (population about 275), a railroad and farming town about 25 miles northeast of Springfield, Missouri.
In 1936, Helen Jackson, then a 17-year-old high school student married James Bolin, twice a widower.
He was 76 years her senior. Less than three years after the marriage, on June 18, 1939, Bolin died in the home of his daughter, Martha, after a lengthy illness.
He was 96. Helen never remarried. She passed away on December 16, 2022 when she was 101 years old.
Did you know the last Civil War widow died in 2020? She was born on August 3, 1919, less than a year after the end of World War I, Helen Jackson grew up in Niangua (population about 275), a railroad and farming town about 25 miles northeast of Springfield, Missouri.
In 1936, Helen Jackson, then a 17-year-old high school student married James Bolin, twice a widower.
He was 76 years her senior. Less than three years after the marriage, on June 18, 1939, Bolin died in the home of his daughter, Martha, after a lengthy illness.
He was 96. Helen never remarried. She passed away on December 16, 2022 when she was 101 years old.