Dennis,

As I understand it, that's the wording of the 1914 law, as revised from the original 1912 law as discussed above, just updated over the years. That law is actually still in force in Kentucky, although there are no longer any living Confederate widows.

My source was: https://books.google.com/books/about/Confederate_Pensioners_of_Kentucky.html?id=ha4dAQAAMAAJ

Mr. Lynn wrote a very interesting preface with a lot of info on how the pension law came to be and the debates over just who was eligible (although he didn't give the entire text of the law). The most telling debate was a requirement in state law that a payee had to have "rendered service to the state," and various parties questioned how a Confederate could have been considered as having rendered service to the state of Kentucky. This went up to the equivalent of the state supreme court, where it was decided, in essence, that soldiers rendered honorable service to their state, no matter whether they were on the winning or losing side. It's a very moving commentary, actually - just as applicable to today's situation.