<Tr> <Th> Nationality </Th> <Td> American </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Known for </Th> <Td> Last known Civil War widow </Td> </Tr> <P> Maudie Hopkins (December 7, 1914--August 17, 2008) was an American woman believed to be the last publicly known 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 . </P>

When did the last civil war veteran widow die