Dennis, it seems like I've heard about the last Confederate widow for the last 15 years. I do have relatives in the south where the man has been about 20 years older than the bride, I have to say the Turchinov's...Turchins...try to keep it either five years older at the most or five years younger more or less. Don't know much about that pension theory though....the benevolent Federal Government took my g-g-Aunts pension away because she had a child out of wedlock, after my ancestor 1st. Lieutenant James K. Morrow died. Guess they though you and everybody in your family had to be a Saint to kill rebs. Anyway maybe true love is just blind.... or so they tell me.

Cump.