Comments on: Oddball Holidays http://www.messofthedamned.org/2004/06/16/oddball-holidays/ Re Vera, Potas Bene Fri, 17 Sep 2010 13:59:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: bangpitcher http://www.messofthedamned.org/2004/06/16/oddball-holidays/comment-page-1/#comment-267 bangpitcher Mon, 21 Jun 2004 15:06:12 +0000 http://control-access5.com/~rader/2004/06/16/oddball-holidays/#comment-267 Interestingly enough, I met Miss Martin - along with two of the three surviving widows of Union soldiers - when we buried the remains of a soldier found on Seminary Ridge a few years back. She was a feisty southerner even at her age. As a sidenote, the caisson used to bear those remains to the National Cemetary is the same caisson used the other week to bear Ronald Reagan's remains to the Capitol. -bp Interestingly enough, I met Miss Martin – along with two of the three surviving widows of Union soldiers – when we buried the remains of a soldier found on Seminary Ridge a few years back.

She was a feisty southerner even at her age.

As a sidenote, the caisson used to bear those remains to the National Cemetary is the same caisson used the other week to bear Ronald Reagan’s remains to the Capitol.

-bp

]]> By: uncle pete http://www.messofthedamned.org/2004/06/16/oddball-holidays/comment-page-1/#comment-266 uncle pete Fri, 18 Jun 2004 02:56:01 +0000 http://control-access5.com/~rader/2004/06/16/oddball-holidays/#comment-266 FlAG DAY MAY HAVE SIGNIFIGANCE AS Aunt Lindsey's birthday 48 same as the number of stars on the flag as when she entered this Union point of interest did you see that the LAST surviving Civil War widow just recently passed Alberta Martin 97 married a Confederate in 1927 who was 81 at the time Maybe it was for his $50 a month pension? After he died in 1931, she upped and married his grandson! NO, it was not as we all would suspect, they were not from VA, but in fact that land of cousins , Alabama TIME 6/14/04 Take care of yourself Uncle Pete FlAG DAY MAY HAVE SIGNIFIGANCE AS Aunt Lindsey’s birthday 48 same as the number of stars on the flag as when she entered this Union
point of interest did you see that the LAST surviving Civil War widow just recently passed Alberta Martin 97 married a Confederate in 1927 who was 81 at the time
Maybe it was for his $50 a month pension?
After he died in 1931, she upped and married his grandson! NO, it was not as we all would suspect, they were not from VA, but in fact that land of cousins , Alabama
TIME 6/14/04
Take care of yourself
Uncle Pete

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