Thu Sep 03, 2009 12:16 am
Generalisimo wrote:OH MY GOD!!
The story referenced in the book that was mentioned by TheDoctorKing is even stranger than the Janeway story.
Alberta Martin married William J Martin in 1927. Alberta was 21 years old and William was 81. William had been a veteran of the 4th Alabama Regiment. Ten months later Alberta gives birth to Willie Martin. William Martin by this time was 82. William dies in 1931. There is some confusion over whether or not Alberta qualified for a widow's pension or if she even knew anything about it. In order to save the farm she marries Charlie Martin, William's grandson from a previous marriage. She and her step-grandson are married until Charlie's death in 1983 - almost 50 years. In 1996 Alberta is 'discovered' by the newspapers and the state of Alabama reinstates her pension with back pay. Alberta died in 2004.
One of the main attractions of these older men to their wives was the pension which was important in the cash poor regions of rural America.
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'Nous voilà, Lafayette'
Colonel C.E. Stanton, aide to A.E.F. commander John 'Black Jack' Pershing, upon the landing of the first US troops in France 1917