Confederate Widow Dies

[hoosier]

Maudie White Hopkins, age 93, and the widow of a Confederate army veteran, has passed away in Arkansas. Read about it at

http://www2.arkansasonline.com/news/...te-widow-dies/

Hopkins married again after her first husband passed and was the mother of three children from her second marriage.

[Freddy]

Hopkins, 19, married Cantrell, 86, in 1934 almost 70 years after the CW ended.

[Michael19103]

Huh! And I thought "Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All" was a stretch! (The title character, who we meet in 1984 at age 99, was married off at about 15 - so in 1900 - by her parents to a 50-year-old man who'd been about 11 when the war started and lied about his age to enlist; by our heroine's day he's fairly well-off and the town character.) Wonderful book, by the way.

[RoadDog]

When the "last" Confederate widow Martin died several years ago, I was still teaching and talked about it in class. When I metioned the age difference, that totally grossed them out, especially the girls.

I explained how that pension was huge back in those days.

The fact that a Civil War widow was still living when the kids were connected them to the war.