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At 97, last known Civil War widow is living link to history
Associated Press ^
| 4/12/03
| PHILLIP RAWLS
Posted on 02/03/2004 7:46:40 PM PST by Jaysun
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To: Lancey Howard
I recently had dinner with a cousin of my father who remembers the Civil War stories he heard directly from his grandfather/my great-grandfather who was in the Union Cavalry from Chancellorsville to the end.
It was unbelievable to me, talking to someone who had talked to my favorite dead ancestor, and remembered him clearly.
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posted on
02/05/2004 7:46:02 AM PST
by
EllaMinnow
(If you want to send a message, call Western Union.)
To: Jaysun
I have a copy of my great-great grandmothers "Confederate widow's benefit" She got $25 a month. She died in the late 1800s. But then she was alive during the War.
The history is fascinating.
To: Jaysun
Old men marrying "young" women must have been fairly common back then. My great-grandfather was born in 1814, in KY., left after "bushwackers" massacred a son and daughter.
His apparently he received a Civil War Pension, his first wife died and he married again late in life and had three more children around age of 70 +.
To: Just mythoughts
Sorry for the incoherent sentence/ not doing too well being on phone and typing.... Should read
He apparently received a Civil War Pension ...
To: Jaysun
This is Mrs. Martin standing in front of Fort Stedman which was attacked by 300 Confederates carrying only hatchets on the early morning of March 25, 1865. After these volunteers hacked up the siege works with the axes and hatchets, they had to use these to fight the Union soldiers in the Fort as these volunteers had no weapons except the axes and hatchets. Other Confederates followed these volunteers into the Fort and they had guns and muskets. The Confederates over ran the Union soldiers but the Union soldiers counterattacked later that day and drove the Confederates away. Mrs. Martin was sitting by her son Willie when this picture was taken. Willie's father, Private William Jasper Martin, was present during a great part of the Petersburg siege. Mrs. Martin made a remark to the Press who interviewed her at this spot. She said, "I'm glad that Willie got to come up here and finally see where his Daddy fought". I'll be ... My G-G-Grandfather fought in this action. After participating in taking Ft Stedman he and his command were cut off and finally overwhelmed. He went through the entire war, rising from Forth Corporal to Captain, and spent the last few months of the war as a POW.
Another great-grandfather was a private, wounded at Second Manassas. I've been able to track down the location were he fell to within a few hundred feet.
History is not dead as long as there are those who will remember.
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posted on
02/05/2004 9:01:19 AM PST
by
LTCJ
(Gridlock '05 - the Lesser of Three Evils.)
To: LTCJ
Most interesting posts.
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posted on
02/05/2004 8:55:45 PM PST
by
Ciexyz
To: SpookBrat; Donaeus
Check out this bit of history!!
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posted on
02/06/2004 10:02:51 PM PST
by
Donaeus
(Another neanderthal preventing home invasions...hot lead makes cold feet.)
To: Rev DMV
In the 50s there was a show called the True Story sponsored by Pall Mall cigarettes. On one episode, they had an old timer claiming to be Jesse James. I have posted this before, but no one else on FR has seen it, as far as I know. I guess the dna tests proved this guy wrong awhile back. Showed the body in Jesse's grave was actually Jesse. Who woulda thunk it?
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posted on
02/06/2004 10:07:55 PM PST
by
breakem
To: Jaysun
It's no picnic getting old. My dear Grandmother who turned 100 in June of 2003 just died Wednesday night. She too survived the depression etc.. Her health was failing and now she is in heaven with her husband and other loved ones. I'll miss her.
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posted on
02/06/2004 10:08:48 PM PST
by
nmh
(Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God).)
To: risk
My 93 year old Grandfather has been sucking welding fumes, asbestos, smoker (quit), chew tobacco (still occasional), 3 eggs 4 or 5 days a week + lots of meat, 3 fingers of Wild Turkey in the evening, and he still is kicking butt and taking names.
The 87 year old one did 32 years military (Navy and Marines) and came out of a POW camp at 86 pounds and still gets in a round of golf occasionally.
Please God... let me have a good dose of those genes!!!
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posted on
02/06/2004 10:15:54 PM PST
by
Axenolith
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To: ccmay
My Great Great Grandfather was born in 1862, and we have a family picture of him holding me along with my mom, grandfather and great grandfather. He passed away when I was ~2.5 in 1967. All of my grandparents are still living, My sister has had kids (my little nephews) so they have a whole side of great grandparents.
It's weird and cool to know and talk to people who remember when horses were the majority on the road and who knew at one point in their lives that the thought of man ever going to the moon was a load of crap fit for trashy comics!
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posted on
02/06/2004 10:25:44 PM PST
by
Axenolith
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To: Axenolith; CougarGA7; grizzfan; BradyLS; 11th_VA
We've got a treasure of old people in this country!
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posted on
02/06/2004 11:25:12 PM PST
by
risk
To: risk
A couple of years ago I asked my 96 year old uncle what he thought was the most important invention or advancement during his lifetime. He thought for a minute and said, "Good roads."
I was surprised as I thought he would say the invention of penicillin, or the moon landing, or air conditioning.
He spoke at length about his grandfather, my gr-grandfather, who fought in the Civil War, as my uncle was about 15 when my gr-grandfather died. My gr-grandmother died in the 1918 flu epidemic and gr-grandfather went to live with his son, my grandfather, so my uncle knew his grandfather fairly well.
A man living in Virginia was renovating an old house and discovered a leather knapsack containing letters my gr-grandfather wrote during the Civil War, but had never gotten the chance to mail them. Apparently gr-grandfather hid the knapsack with the intention of retrieving it, but he never did. He was wounded, and that may have been the reason he couldn't.
The letters were preserved in the knapsack, and the man in Virginia spent several years searching for our family for whom the letters were intended. He finally found my uncle, the great grandson, and was kind enough to return the letters to our family.
To: grizzfan; Molly Pitcher; SAMWolf; LindaSOG
bump - maybe you could work with SAMWolf or LindaSOG to get some of that raw civil war material online in a Canteen thread.
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posted on
02/07/2004 12:07:12 AM PST
by
risk
To: nmh
Sorry for your loss. I have three close relatives over 100 at the moment. I'm fortunate to have them and speak to them as often as possible. It's amazing when you think about all of the changes that they've seen over their lifetimes. My Great-Grandfather decided to start playing piano at 98. He took lessons. He lives alone, but he drives himself to a local nursing home to entertain the "old folks" once a week. Amazing.
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posted on
02/07/2004 12:16:58 AM PST
by
Jaysun
(There is no rejection in life quite like a canceled shrink appointment.)
To: risk; grizzfan; snippy_about_it
Thanks Risk.
Grizzfan, if you're interested Fr-mail me or Snippy_about _it and we'll see what we can do.
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posted on
02/07/2004 7:42:16 AM PST
by
SAMWolf
(I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize.)
To: Jaysun
At 97, last known Civil War widow is living link to historyThat should make her about negative 43 years old when she married.
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posted on
02/07/2004 7:44:52 AM PST
by
Lazamataz
(I know exactly what opinion I am permitted to have, and I am zealous -- nay, vociferous -- in it!!!)
To: Jaysun
I believe she used to live in Elba, AL, my home town.
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posted on
02/07/2004 7:49:38 AM PST
by
Crawdad
(I cried because I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no class.)
To: Arpege92
World's Oldest Person Dies, As Do Oldest Men, American
Nov. 2, 3003 - October was a bad month for old-age record holders. The oldest living woman, oldest man and oldest American all died.
> Kamato Hongo, recognized as the world's oldest person by the Guinness Book of Records, died of pneumonia on Oct. 31 in her native Japan at 116. She had held the title since March, 2002, after the death of 115-year-old American Maude Farris-Luse.
> At the end of September, Yukichi Chuganji, the world's oldest man, according to Guinness, died at 114 in southern Japan. But in mid-October a man named Sek Yi, died in Cambodia. His family said he was 122 years old but his birth date is not documented.
Japan's Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry said Mitoyo Kawate of Hiroshima -- 114 years old is now the oldest person in Japan, but there has not been an official announcement by Guinness.
> Elena Slough, documented as the oldest person in the U.S., died Oct. 5 at the nursing home where her daughter died three days earlier. She was 114 or 115, according to different sources. The Gerontology Research Group said Slough was born on July 8, 1889, making her 114 years old at the time of her death. What is not in dispute is that Slough had been the oldest person in the United States since April, when 113-year-old Mary Dorothy Christian died in San Pablo, Calif..
The oldest fully authenticated age to which any human has lived is the 122 years and 164 days of Frenchwoman Jeanne-Louise Calment, who died in 1997.
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posted on
02/07/2004 7:50:04 AM PST
by
BJungNan
To: Jaysun
Cherish them. Spoil them silly and SHOW your love for them. Hug them. Kiss them. Stroke their hand or arm. tell them how much you love them. Hopefully they are Christians ... tell them heaven is a wonderful place and to meet you when it's your turn to leave. When their day does come and hopefully they go to heaven ... wouldn't it be wonderful when it's your turn if they are there to greet you?
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posted on
02/07/2004 8:26:21 AM PST
by
nmh
(Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God).)
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