HudsonHawk
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I was wondering about that the other day. How many children of Confederate veterans are still alive? As you know, during the depression, it was almost a sport for young women to seek out the veterans because of their pensions. Not sure when the last child was born? Since! know quite a few people born in the 1930s, it stands to reason there are at least a few left!
There can't be many. A Civil War vet would have had to been born no later than about 1850, which by 1930 would have made him 80 years old. Probably not a lot had children at that age, and their kids would be 85 now. There may be a few, but given that there aren't even any WWI vets left, I can't imagine it's many.