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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.
Apr 30, 2021 · Helen Jackson was “The Last Civil War Widow,” and, oh, what a story this old woman had to tell. Born 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.
Jan 7, 2021 · When Missouri teenager Helen Viola Jackson agreed to marry her much-older neighbor, 93-year-old James Bolin, in September 1936, she did so on her own terms.
Jan 6, 2021 · Helen Viola Jackson, the last known widow of a Civil War soldier, has died. She was 101 years old and had been living in Webco Manor Nursing Home in Marshfield, Mo. She passed away on Dec. 16, according to a statement by the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War.
Helen Hunt Jackson (pen name, H.H.; born Helen Maria Fiske; October 15, 1830 – August 12, 1885) was an American poet and writer who became an activist on behalf of improved treatment of Native Americans by the United States government.
Jan 6, 2021 · Helen Viola Jackson, who had been living in Webco Manor Nursing Home in Marshfield, Missouri, died on Dec. 16, the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War said in a statement on Saturday.
Jan 6, 2021 · On December 16, 2020, Helen Viola Jackson died at age 101. The Civil War widow had married her veteran husband when she was 17 — and he was 93.
Jan 11, 2021 · Helen Jackson was, by most every account, the last surviving widow of the Civil War. She was just 19 in 1936, when she married 91-year-old Civil War veteran James Bolin after...
Feb 2, 2021 · She died on December 16, 2020 at Webco Manor Nursing Home in Marshfield, Missouri. Helen Viola Jackson, a Civil War widow, married her neighbor, veteran James Bolin, when she was just 17 years old and he was 93.
Helen Hunt Jackson (born October 15, 1830, Amherst, Massachusetts, U.S.—died August 12, 1885, San Francisco, California) was an American poet, novelist, and advocate for Indigenous rights. She was the daughter of Nathan Fiske, a professor at Amherst College in Massachusetts.
