Through a series of vignettes, 99-year-old Lucy Marsden tells the story of her marriage, at age 15, to a 50-year-old veteran of the Civil War. She shares with the audience his antebellum experiences ...

Lucy married at the turn of the last century, when she was fifteen and her husband was fifty. If Colonel William Marsden was a veteran of the "War for Southern Independence", Lucy became a "veteran of ...

BLAINE, Tenn. -- Gertrude Janeway, the last widow of a Union veteran from the Civil War, has died in the three-room log cabin where she lived most of her life. She was 93. Bedridden for years, she ...

LITTLE ROCK -- News reports in May that the last widow of a Civil War soldier had died in Alabama prompted relatives of an Arkansas woman to verify her claims, kept private for decades, that her late ...

LITTLE ROCK -- Maudie White Hopkins did what she had to do as a young girl living a hard-scrabble life in the Ozarks during the Depression. In a family of 10 children, she did laundry and cleaned ...