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

[Bryce Perry <sandchigger@yahoo.com>]

And might I also add, way to go John Janeway!  

-Bryce "seriously, this time: re-lurking" Perry

--- Daniel Gwyn <dgwyn@colba.net> wrote:
> 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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