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Living link to Civil War history Nellie Baker Featured
Nellie E Baker of Topeka is one of the few surviving widows of Civil War veterans remaining in the United States. Born in 1878 she married John A Johnson in Osborne County in 1897 when she was 18 and he 53. The article notes there are 487 surviving widows with Union or Confederate ties.
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