America's Last Confederate Widow Dies

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The nation has lost a historic lady. Mrs. Alberta Martin, the last known widow of a Confederate soldier, died on Memorial Day. She was 97 and a living link to history of which most Americans know little or nothing.

Mrs. Martin was born on December 4, 1906, at Dannely's Crossroads, Coffee County, Alabama. The small country intersection has changed little since her birth.

"Miss Alberta" was born into a sharecropper family. They went wherever there was work for planters and pickers. She learned the hard work of picking cotton at a young age.

Alberta married W.J. Martin in 1927. Martin was 82 and Alberta was 21. He had been a Confederate soldier over 60 years before they married.

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Mrs. Martin spent much time with members of the Sons of Confederate Veterans and she believed in flying the Confederate Cross of St. Andrew. In 2000 she participated in a rally in Columbia, South Carolina to support the flag which then flew on the state capitol. Though in a wheel chair, Alberta held her Southern flag and proudly waved it.

In 1996, Mrs. Alberta Martin was escorted to the National Convention of the Sons of Confederate Veterans in Richmond, Virginia. As she entered the meeting hall, everyone there stood and sang "Dixie."

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