| 词条 | Maudie Hopkins |
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| name = Maudie Hopkins | image = White May 2004.jpg | image_size = | alt = Maudie Hopkins | caption = Maudie Hopkins | birth_name = Maudie Cecilia Acklin | birth_date = {{Birth date|1914|12|07}} | birth_place = Baxter County, Arkansas, U.S. | death_date = {{Death date and age|2008|08|17|1914|12|07}} | death_place = Lexa, Arkansas, U.S. | nationality = American | known_for = Last publicly identified Civil War widow }}{{moresources|date=September 2017}}Maudie Hopkins (December 7, 1914 – August 17, 2008) was an American woman believed to be the last publicly known and identified surviving widow of a Civil War veteran. LifeBorn as Maudie Cecilia Acklin in Baxter County, Arkansas, she married William M. Cantrell (aged 86) on February 2, 1934, when she was 19. Cantrell had enlisted in the Confederate States Army at age 16 in Pikeville, Kentucky, and served in General Samuel G. French's Battalion of Virginia Infantry. He was captured in 1863, and was part of a prisoner exchange. He had a previous wife, who had died in 1929. Cantrell supported her with a pension of US$25 every two or three months, and she inherited his home in 1937. She received no further pension benefits after his death. She remarried later in 1937, and twice thereafter, and had three children.{{cn|date=September 2017}} It was not especially uncommon for young women in Arkansas to marry Confederate pensioners; in 1937 the state passed a law stating that women who married Civil War veterans would not be eligible for a widow's pension. The law was later changed in 1939 to state that widows born after 1870 were not eligible for pensions. Hopkins generally kept her first marriage a secret, fearing that the resulting gossip (of marrying a much older man) would damage her reputation.[2] After researching records from Arkansas and United States Census Bureau data, Hopkins was certified by various historical organizations, most notably the United Daughters of the Confederacy. A spokeswoman for the UDC, Martha Boltz, has said that there may be two other widows, one in Tennessee and another in North Carolina, but if they are still alive, they choose to remain in anonymity.{{cn|date=September 2017}} Maudie Hopkins died on August 17, 2008, in a nursing home in Lexa, Arkansas, aged 93.[3] See also
References1. ^Widow of Confederate soldier dies at 93, Associated Press 2. ^Barron, James. [https://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/16/business/the-last-civil-war-widow-has-a-successor-it-would-seem.html?_r=0 "The 'Last Civil War Widow' Has a Successor, It Would Seem"], The New York Times, June 16, 2004; retrieved January 29, 2017. 3. ^Hopkins' obituary, WashingtonTimes.com; accessed September 26, 2017. 4. ^Wall Street Journal, May 11, 2014. External links
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