Last Person to Receive 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.

1890 to 2020 (130 years) the US Government paid a Civil War pension from a treasury that has been empty since 1934. 35 Trillion debt

Hopefully it wasn't $73 in confederate money

She'll get another chance

My sympathies.

RIP Irene

You forgot the part about how she was the inspiration for ERISA in the 1970s.

Crazy!

Our research shows there are many options for stabilising society developing local economies relocating unemployed and racially harrassed. Pandemic showed govt can move wealth quickly and its time it did so more often. Every dollar reciruclates not lost as some believe

She should have been in the news throughout her life- who else still living has a parent that fought in the Civil War and was a contemporary of General Grant and Abraham Lincoln? Astounding!

Just $73.13 in year 2020 as pension to serve the country during world war

morgfair I bet you the veterans administration closed that loophole as fast as they could, God forbid they help any other veterans for that long.

The interest should be compounded

Fortunately, she will still be casting her vote for the Democrats this fall.

Does this take into account inflation? If so, uncivil.

They finally got around to sending it 155 years later - sounds like the VA.

Fascinating that her father was a Confederate soldier then changed his mind and joined the Union army. Thanks 🙏🏼 for sharing this unique historical vignette.

I’m i the only one that finds this an odd timing event. Just paid off one so, time to fiance another? CivilDisobedience

Great life, but now, those books are closed.

Wow absolutely fascinating!

Actually quite cool. God bless her soul.

Wow, that’s Four bucks more than my mother in law gets from the Teamsters widow benefit. Who knew?

We are in great need of some more positive news, and this is some. Thanks.:-)

Oh that's real cute what a great time to throw that out there you guys are nasty fake news has no place in America

Her mom was 34 and her dad was 83 😬

Amazing story!

Yikes!! No need for the close up WSJ!!

Must’ve been a Union soldier. RIP 🌺

Wow!

the South has risen

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