DigitalDrifter
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Well, a month ago anyway.
I read about this woman years ago, her mother was 28 when she married a Civil War vet who was 77.
Wouldn't that be weird that in 2020 she could still say her father was a Civil War vet.
Last Person to Receive a Civil War-Era Pension Dies
I read about this woman years ago, her mother was 28 when she married a Civil War vet who was 77.
Wouldn't that be weird that in 2020 she could still say her father was a Civil War vet.
Last Person to Receive a Civil War-Era Pension Dies
Irene Triplett, the last person receiving a pension from the U.S. Civil War, has died at the age of 90.
Ms. Triplett’s father, Mose Triplett, started fighting in the war for the Confederacy, but defected to the North in 1863. That decision earned his daughter Irene, the product of a late-in-life marriage to a woman almost 50 years his junior, a pension of $73.13 a month from the Department of Veterans Affairs.
Ms. Triplett, who suffered from mental disabilities, qualified for federal financial support as a helpless ((CQ)) adult child of a veteran. She died Sunday from complications following surgery for injuries from a fall, according to the Wilkesboro, N.C., nursing home where she lived.