Confederate Widow’s Pension Restored
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Alberta Martin, possibly the only living Confederate widow, learned this week that Alabama has agreed to renew her Confederate widow’s pension and a supplement, 64 years after she became ineligible for the aid because she remarried. Martin, 89, will get a monthly check of $335. She was a 21-year-old widow with a young son in 1927 when she married 82-year-old William Jasper Martin, who had been a Confederate Army private. He died at age 87 in 1932.
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