Posted on 08/20/2016 4:31:20 PM PDT by Leaning Right
The Civil War ended more than 150 years ago, but the U.S. government is still paying a veteran's pension from that conflict.
"One beneficiary from the Civil War [is] still alive and receiving benefits," Randy Noller of the Department of Veterans Affairs confirms.
Irene Triplett – the 86-year-old daughter of a Civil War veteran – collects $73.13 each month from her father's military pension. The identity of Triplett was first reported by The Wall Street Journal in 2014.
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She was born in 1930; say her father was 18 at the end of the civil war in 1865; he was born in about 1847. He was about 83 when she was born.
$876 a year in 1913 would be worth around $21,000 bucks in 2016 according to the CPI Calculator at the BLS website. They don’t go further back.
Allot more than the average Social Security Check of around $14,000 a year.
These are children of the soldier. He had his children at 80 and 83.
Married out of kindness?.. You kiddin, a beautiful wife 50 years younger aint no act of kindness. I say giddy up.
A few years ago I read an obituary of a pilot who had died at the age of 90+. His Pilot’s License was #21 and had been signed by one of the Wright brothers.
IIRC, he had flown in WWII then flew Boeing 747s for the airlines. Finally, too old to pass an Aviation Medical Exam, he flew ultralights up to the age of 84.
His father was 65 when he was born. His father was the inventor of the Spencer Repeating Rifle and had personally demonstrated it to Abraham Lincoln.
A lot of history happened in those two lifetimes.
Wow!
And when she dies will the fully staffed department charged with writing a check to Civil War pensioners be dismissed, or will all of them be reassigned to join the staff of the fully staffed department writing checks to pensioners of the Spanish American war?
You get my drift!
I met General Robert L. Scott when he was around 90. This was at a meeting of a South Georgia historical society.
He flew and F-15 on his 85th birthday. He did have to get special permission from the Secretary of the Air Force.
History passes in the blink of an eye.
I lived next door to an old guy in New Jersey - out in the country next to the old Edison Cement Factory.
He would talk about working there after he dropped out of school at the age of 13. Did odd jobs around the plant, brought sandwiches to Tommy, etc.
After a couple of times hearing his stories it clicked.
“Wait - ‘Tommy’? You mean Thomas Edison!?”
“Well hell boy, who’d you think I was talkin’ about!?”
In my defense, I was new to NJ, and all sorts of thing had the name “Edison” in them.
What...no war of northern aggression? LOL!!
$13 war bonus, had a cousin who was a Regimental Sargent Major, $23 a month.
Wow, big bucks.
But, modern mining technology has put a lot more gold out there then there was back in the day.
But, but, the worlds population has increased.
Of course the hull of the boat doesn't need to be replaced because it is now made of fiberglass.
And so on and so forth.
Edison used to vacation about a mile down the road from me here in NY. You would never know it today because the estate is so run down.
Hey, I remember making $300 a month back in the the 1960’s.
Also, you could buy your way out of the Civil War draft for $300.
It makes no sense for a veteran’s child to receive a survivor’s pension after the child’s age of majority, unless the child was disabled before reaching majority.
When I was in High school I was doing a reenactment of the battle of Lewisburg. This very elderly gentleman was walking and looking around he asked my Company commander, what was going on my commander told him we were reenacting a civil war battle the elderly gentleman tells my commander my father fought in the war between the States. At first, we all thought he was talking about his grandfather but as turns out his father was a confederate solider who not only fought for confederatncy but also fought at Lewisburg so that whole weekend we dedicated the entire reenactment in his honor and we did it until he passed away. It was a real treat
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