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VA approves pension claim from Civil War veteran
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You laugh, but i think somewhere I read that there is a Civil War widow still receiving a pension; she was rather a good bit younger that her late husband, I’m given to understand.
And I rented a room from nice little old lady (the talk your ear off kind, Daughter of the Confederacy, had donated to a state collection the paper work where her maternal ancestors had been allowed to leave Scotland after the Forty-five—1745, that is). She received half of her son’s insurance policy when his plane was shot down during WWII; she was paid monthly from 1944 or 45 until her death at 102. Her son’s widow took a lump son payment.