Maude Cecilia Acklin was born in Baxter County, Arkansas back in 1914. She married William Hopkins (age 86) when she was 19. William has enlisted in the Confederate States Army in Pikeville, Kentucky when he was 16. He served under General Samuel G. French’s Battalion of Virginia Infantry.
He was captured in 1863, later was a part of a prisoner exchange. He supported Maude with his pension of $25.00 per month. He died in 1937, he was 89. She remarried twice more having three children. She died in 2008, in Lexa, Arkansas, she was 93.
What you may not know is that she was the last surviving widow of a Civil War veteran.
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