This is truly amazing; early photos of surviving veterans of the - TopicsExpress



          

This is truly amazing; early photos of surviving veterans of the American Revolution, taken in the 1850s when they were in their 90s, even over 100. It points out something that the Kearneys posted a few weeks ago on the Civil War -- there are still two or three US federal pensions being paid out to Civil War widows. The soldier would have been 15 in 1865, meaning that he could have married a 20 year old woman when he was 80 in 1940. Since she would have been born in 1920, she cold still be alive as the widow of a Civil War veteran in 2013 at the age of 93!!
Posted on: Sat, 06 Jul 2013 16:17:54 +0000

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