The American Civil War ended in 1865, but the US Department of Veteran Affairs is still paying a pension to the child of a soldier who fought in it, says the Daily Mail. She was born as late as 1930 and is living in a nursing home in North Carolina.
It had been widely reported, not least by the Mail itself, that there were two children of Civil War veterans still alive, but the second, a 93-year-old man living in Tennessee, died last August.
Even more remarkably, the last widow of a Civil War veteran died as recently as 2003.
But then, as I blogged a year ago, two grandsons of John Tyler, the 10th President of the United States of American are still alive.
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A witness to the Lincoln asassination made it to the TV age:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_iq5yzJ-Dk&list=FL5o0e1kdQrlD1Q58Trgwgcw
You are not a regular reader then. :)
See my post from August 2011.
This always fascinates me, that there are in fact 30, and possibly more, people still alive today children of Civil War vets.
http://suvcw.org/kids/CWkids.pdf
Please click on the link, this site is updated regularly.
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