Post pictures of your Grandparents birthyear coins

Grandparents? Pshaw. Helen Viola Jackson, the last surviving widow of a Union soldier died only last December.

 

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I was about to post that

https://www.google.com/amp/s/wgntv....keeping-marriage-secret-most-of-her-life/amp/

 

Well, admittedly she was only 19 when she married 91 year old James Brolin.

 

From what I read it was not unusual for Civil War vets in their 80s and 90s to propose marriage to the young women or nurses taking care of them and even father a kid or two before shuffling off on their mortal coil.

 

No disrespect taken. I know it can be difficult to understand but as you can see, it happens. I'm just one of them. It all depends on life, our lives.