{"id":950,"date":"2004-06-01T07:42:55","date_gmt":"2004-06-01T11:42:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2004\/06\/last_matrimonial_link_to_the_c\/"},"modified":"2004-06-01T07:42:55","modified_gmt":"2004-06-01T11:42:55","slug":"last_matrimonial_link_to_the_c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/06\/last_matrimonial_link_to_the_c\/","title":{"rendered":"Last Matrimonial Link to the Civil War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This year&#8217;s Memorial Day brought an unusual milestone: the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/uslatest\/story\/0,1282,-4153273,00.html\">last widow of a Civil War veteran died<\/a>.<br \/>\nAlberta Martin, then 21, married 81-year-old William Jasper Martin in 1927.  They had a son, who, if I read the article correctly, is still alive.  After the veteran died, Ms. Martin married her late husband&#8217;s grandson.  Which would make her son her second husband&#8217;s step-uncle.  Or something.<br \/>\nIf this all wasn&#8217;t strange enough, according to the article didn&#8217;t receive Confederate widow&#8217;s benefits until 1996.  Not sure why it took so long.  One would think that the funding for such a program would have ended a long time ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/06\/last_matrimonial_link_to_the_c\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Last Matrimonial Link to the Civil War\"><p>This year&#8217;s Memorial Day brought an unusual milestone: the last widow of a Civil War veteran died. Alberta Martin, then 21, married 81-year-old William Jasper Martin in 1927. They had a son, who, if I read the article correctly, is still alive. After the veteran died, Ms. Martin married her late husband&#8217;s grandson. Which would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-950","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}