ODD: The last Civil

War widow died in 2020.

Yes, really. Helen Viola Jackson was just 17 when she married 93-year-old veteran James Bolin in 1936. The two lived in Missouri during the Great Depression, and Bolin was concerned about Jackson’s future.

They wed so she could obtain his pension. She never applied for it, worrying she’d seem like an opportunist. She died in December 2020.

Telegrams came to an end in 2013 in India. The final telegrams in the U.S. went out in January 2006.

Remember the Marlboro Man? The last cigarette ad on television in the U.S. was Jan. 1, 1971. Cigarette ads on billboards were eliminated April 23, 1999.

The Marlboro Man campaign was from 1954 to 1999 in the U.S. and featured Robert C. Norris over a 12-year span. An actual cattle rancher, Norris was friends with actor John Wayne. From 1968 to 1989, the model for the rugged man was Darrell Winfield, a rancher from Wyoming.

Here’s an interesting one — the last prisoner held at the Tower of London was in 1952.

According to Ranker, com, ‘Prisoners held at the Tower of London include then princess Elizabeth Tudor in 1554, two of Henry VIII’s wives — Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard — and Guy Fawkes after the Gunpowder Plot of 1605.

‘The Tower continued to be used as a prison on and off through history, with a pair of brothers serving as its last prisoners. The Kray twins, Ronnie and Reggie, were members of an organized crime outfit in London’s East End, but it was failing to report for military duty that landed them in the Tower in 1952.’