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KEY01JJTI0VARY WIDOWS.Sevnt Pensioners Whose Husbands Served Under WashInyten.“Sc*veil women are still drawing pensions as tlie widows of men who saw active service in the War of the Revolution—women whose husbands served under Washington more than 120 years ugO,” writes Clifford Howard in the February Ladies' Home Journal. “The oldest of these surviving widows of the Revolution is living at Los Angeles. Gal. She is Mrs. Lovoy Aldrich, now in the 98th vear of her age. Her husband was Private Caleb Aldrich, who was bom in the vear 17(53, and served as a soldier boy in the New England campaigns of the war. Mrs. Nancy Jones, of Jonesboro, Teun., whose husband was Darling Jones, a private in one Of the North Carolina regiments. is the- youngest of the Revolutionary widows, being now about 83 years of age.The other five are Nancy Cloud, who is living at Chum. Va.. and is the widow of Sergeant William Cloud, Of Captain Christaiu's Virginia line; Esther S. Daiuon, of l’lymouth Cnion, Vt.,whose husbaiitl was Private Noah Datuon. of Massachusetts; Mary Snead, living at Parksley, Va .widow of Private Bowdoin Sucad: Nancy A. Weatherman, who lives at Klk'Mills. Term.. ami whose husband was Robt. Wlasscock. a lifer in one of the \ ir-giuitt regiments, and Rebecca Mayo, living at Newberu, Va., a widow^ol Stepbeu Mayo, a soldier from \ ir-eiuia. That these women can be the widows of Revolutionary soldiers is readilv understood in view of The fact that their husbands were well on in vears when they married. As for example, when Esther Sumner married Noah Damon in the year Idol's It v-two vears after the close of the war—she was but 01, while he was 70. The last Revolutionary widow pensioner who had married prior to the close of the war, and had. therefore, actually lived during Revolutionary times, was Nancy Serena, widow of Daniel F. Bakeman. She died about twenty seven years ago, onlv a vear or two after her husband, who was the last of the Revolutionary soldiers on the peusion roll.
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Big Stone Gap Post
Big Stone Gap, Virginia, US
Wed, Oct 02, 1907
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