Last person receiving a Civil War pension dies

[Daehawk]

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.

Pvt. Triplett married Elida Hall in 1924. She was 34 when Irene was born in 1930; he was 83. Such an age difference wasn’t rare, especially later, during the Great Depression, when Civil War veterans found themselves with both a pension and a growing need for care.

“You’re talking to somebody whose father was in the Civil War, which is mind-bending.”

Kinda crazy to think her dad was in the Civil War. For me you'd have to go back to my great grandfather.

[LawBeefaroni]

Pvt. Triplett married Elida Hall in 1924. She was 34 when Irene was born in 1930; he was 83. Such an age difference wasn’t rare, especially later, during the Great Depression, when Civil War veterans found themselves with both a pension and a growing need for care.

We should all be that lucky to get (and reciprocate) that kind of "care" at 83!

[Paingod]

Pvt. Triplett married Elida Hall in 1924. She was 34 when Irene was born in 1930; he was 83. Such an age difference wasn’t rare, especially later, during the Great Depression, when Civil War veterans found themselves with both a pension and a growing need for care.

We should all be that lucky to get (and reciprocate) that kind of "care" at 83!

While I'd love to believe in deep passions and love, given the situation I'm more inclined to go with "Teeth-gritted obligation through financial bondage" ...

[Scraper]

I wonder if the person who processes that payment every month in the government is out of a job? I mean was this an entire department devoted to making sure Civil War vets and surviving children got their benefits? (I kid, but somewhere in the government someone has one less thing to do each month).

[Blackhawk]

She and her father alone represented 173 years of US history. That's mind-boggling.

[Alefroth]

Wow.

[Rumpy]

The stories you could tell with that one. She must have had some very interesting stories to tell!

[Daehawk]

Just think his parents might have been born in the 1700s. If he joined the War in 1862 he was about 20 so born around 1840s.

[LawBeefaroni]

Just think his parents might have been born in the 1700s. If he joined the War in 1862 he was about 20 so born around 1840s.

Born in 1847 or so if he was 83 when his daughter was born in 1930.

So he would have been around 14 when the war started.

[dbt1949]

I'm still getting mine.

[Jeff V]

I'm still getting mine.

Civil War, not Revolutionary War.

[LawBeefaroni]

I'm still getting mine.

Civil War, not Revolutionary War.

I was thinking the American Civil War, not the English Civil War.

[Daehawk]

War of the Roses?

[stessier]

This is reminiscent of John Tyler's (1790-1862) having a living grandson. Time is a funny thing.

[Daehawk]

Just think if a family each member lived to be 100 and at age 100 had a kid that lived to 100 then had a kid. Heck their grandpa could have been in the revolutionary war. Great gandpa a pirate on the high seas.

But thats all fantasy. This woman's dad was in the civil war..I find it hard to wrap my head around that thought even saying it over and over. My dad was in Germany after WW2 and invited to Korea but declined. And he died in 2002. My wife's dad was in WW2 and died in 2006 at 91.

This womans dad fought in a war 158 years ago.

[gameoverman]

Pvt. Triplett married Elida Hall in 1924. She was 34 when Irene was born in 1930; he was 83. Such an age difference wasn’t rare, especially later, during the Great Depression, when Civil War veterans found themselves with both a pension and a growing need for care.

We should all be that lucky to get (and reciprocate) that kind of "care" at 83!

While I'd love to believe in deep passions and love, given the situation I'm more inclined to go with "Teeth-gritted obligation through financial bondage" ...

I find it disturbing to think that she might have been one of the lucky ones. Her involvement is with only one man, she's married and thus legitimate in society's eyes, and could even raise a child. What about the women who couldn't find an 80+ veteran to marry?

[Daehawk]

They starved. Or become known as spinsters and old maids at age 25.

[dbt1949]

Actually my pension comes in denarius. I'm not sure what army that was.

[Daehawk]

Hercules and Xena might know.

[Blackhawk]

Hercules and Xena might know.

They'd know drachmas. Denarii were Roman.

[Scuzz]

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.

Pvt. Triplett married Elida Hall in 1924. She was 34 when Irene was born in 1930; he was 83. Such an age difference wasn’t rare, especially later, during the Great Depression, when Civil War veterans found themselves with both a pension and a growing need for care.

“You’re talking to somebody whose father was in the Civil War, which is mind-bending.”

Kinda crazy to think her dad was in the Civil War. For me you'd have to go back to my great grandfather.

I think I remember reading a story when she became the last person to get the pension. And yes, it does seem amazing that something that happened "so long ago" can still only be a generation or so away.

[Alefroth]

Just think his parents might have been born in the 1700s. If he joined the War in 1862 he was about 20 so born around 1840s.

Born in 1847 or so if he was 83 when his daughter was born in 1930.

So he would have been around 14 when the war started.

1846.

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/129 ... e-triplett

She was only 8 when he died.

[LawBeefaroni]

I knew someone would look it up so I said "or so", dammit!