This is interesting and sad.

[I.S.T.]

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040613/ap_on_re_us/civil_war_widow_2

I would have thought the last widow died long ago.

 

[Sage]

She was a 21-year-old widow with a young child when she met and married 81-year-old Confederate veteran William Jasper Martin in 1927

he must've been a really nice person

William Martin died in 1932 after having one child with his wife.

getting her pregnant at 81+!? fertile old fart...

Two months later, Alberta Martin married her late husband's grandson

I couldn't... just couldn't... not with someone who had been with my grandfather

 

[I.S.T.]

Probably married him to give her kid a father. This was waaaaaay back in the '30s.