Re: [DL] Last Union Widow dies (a mite OT)

["Daniel Gwyn" <dgwyn@colba.net>]

Dear Bryce,
    I saw the report on both news.bbc.co.uk, and cnn.com which suggests that
it might be a reliable story.  The BBC link is:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/2677095.stm
    If I may elaborate, the widow in question had married a Union vet in
1927 when he was about 81 (hardly impossible) and she was 18.  (I had
previously heard several accounts about elderly Civil War vets marrying
young women late in life, so it didn't seem that far fetched.)  There was
never any implication that she was abnormally old (93 isn't that unusual and
I once saw a man who lived to be 113) or that she had actually lived during
the Civil War.
    If I've been had, I've been had with a very convincing and very
underwhelming lie.  Might I respectfully suggest that you might inquire for
more information before replying in caps?  Thank you.
              Daniel
"Thus conscience doth make cowards of us all."
     Hamlet, Act III, scene i.

-----Message d'origine-----
De : Bryce Perry <sandchigger@yahoo.com>
À : deadlands@gamerz.net <deadlands@gamerz.net>
Date : January 20, 2003 6:52 PM
Objet : Re: [DL] Last Union Widow dies (a mite OT)


>Could you send me a link to that news report?  I think it'd be really
>neat to hear about someone who's (give or take) ABOUT ONE-HUNDRED AND
>FIFTY YEARS OLD.
>
>Daniel, I think you may have been taken...
>
>--- Daniel Gwyn <dgwyn@colba.net> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>     There was a news report today that the last surviving widow of a
>> Union veteran of the Civil War died recently.  It kind of makes you
>> think.  The report also said that there still was a Confederate widow
>> around.
>
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