Who is Lucy Marsden from Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All and what is their importance?

Lucy Marsden was born in 1885. She grew up in Falls, North Carolina, the only child of a prosperous family. Lucy was fifteen when she became interested in Will Marsden, who was close to fifty at the time. They married, honeymooned in Georgia, and returned to live in the Marsden home. The couple went onto have nine children.