I imagine different states had different rules. Am told some states never
awarded widows pensions. (example Missouri)

Also, it may be a myth, but supposedly some of the real elderly veterans
"married" their very young relatives so they would receive a pension the
rest of their lives. Some girls as young as 14 and I assume they began to
receive the pension immediately upon the veteran's death.

Janet Lewis Crain
http://www.GenPage.com/genealogyDNA.html
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~craingen/



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Subject: Civil war pensions


> Hello everyone,
>      Does anyone know how old a woman had to be to apply for or to receive
> confederate widows pension? It would sure help me naroow doen the age of
the
> woman if I knew. Thanks Debbie
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