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`lag

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Just as an aside to this you'd get these Civil War widow...


stories, last Civil War widow dies and/or you'd find out they are still paying out civil war pensions. This happened because Civil War veterans were getting old about the time of the depression, no one had any money so some of them "married" their young nurses so they could hand over their pensions to their "wives" as payment and hence many of them were still receiving veteran pensions as recently as 20-30 years ago.
[Post edited by `lag at 04/10/2020 10:10AM]

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