<Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This article needs additional citations for verification . Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . Unsourced material may be challenged and removed . (September 2017) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This article needs additional citations for verification . Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . Unsourced material may be challenged and removed . (September 2017) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) </Td> </Tr> <P> 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 . </P> <P> Born 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 . </P>

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