Chez Chesler

Alberta Martin, the last widow of a Civil War veteran, died on Memorial Day, 2004. In 1926, Martin, a 21-year-old widow with a young son met William Jasper Martin, an 81-year-old widower with a veteran's pension, "and a marriage of convenience was born. ... They were married on December 10, 1927, and 10 months later had a son, William." "William Jasper Martin died on July 8, 1931. Two months later, Alberta Martin married her late husband's grandson, Charlie Martin. He died in 1983." That marriage would have been illegal in Massachusetts. It would be wrong to question the younger William's paternity, even given Alberta's whirlwind romance with Charlie, so this makes William one of the last people fathered by a Civil War veteran. Is he the last? From both sides? And who is the oldest living offspring of a Civil War veteran?