By Steve Hathcock
Washington, Dec. 30.- Although the Revolutionary War ended 111 years ago, 20 widows of that war still survive and draw pensions. Most of them evidently married their husbands on the verge of the grave in order to get pensions due to them as widows.
The two oldest of these are only 100. Yet they were not born till 11 years after the war of which they are now beneficiaries. Even if their husbands enlisted in the service of their country before they were of age, they were 35 years older than the widows pensioned by their death. Most of the widows are below 90, but even this would make them 40 years younger than their husbands, but twenty at the close of the war.
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