Posted on 06/03/2020 2:31:06 AM PDT by naturalman1975
The last American citizen receiving a Civil War pension has died in North Carolina at the age of 90.
Irene Triplett, whose father fought for the Union Army between 1863 and 1865, passed away Sunday in Wilkesboro from complications following surgery.
Irene suffered from from mental disabilities and therefore qualified for federal financial support as a 'helpless adult child of a veteran', according to The Washington Post.
She received a monthly check of $73.13 from the Department of Veterans Affairs, which went towards expenses for the nursing home where she lived. Her father, Mose Triplett, was 83 years old when his much younger wide, Elida, gave birth to Irene in 1930.
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Fascinating! Thanks for posting.
And we give baby mommas and slothful men 10, 20, 30 times that a month in AFDC, SNAP, and other giveaways.
This nation could have honored this woman better.
Yes, fascinating.
“much younger wide, Elida, gave birth to Irene in 1930”
How wide was Elida?
It looks like that rate of payment was last changed in 1958 according to the forum where I heard about this - it was apparently just about adequate as a pension then.
This nation could have honored this woman better.
How do you know? She was almost certainly getting other assistance from the government. And it's not like she actually went through the Civil War. Marrying young women off to old Civil War veterans for the pension money was the AFDC and SNAP of those days.
There was a movie based on these people...I cant remember what it was called or who starred...
Might as well pass the CWII pension plan since it’s about to start.
My man! Getting it done 65 years before Viagra, (assuming he was the real father, there was a lot of fraud with paternity claims, especially with pensions involved, in the days before DNA and blood tests. A much younger women would get pregnant and "marry" a much older elderly veteran, who was a family friend, to ensure a pension for herself and her child).
Very good point.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110721/
Maybe you’re thinking of “Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All”?
He must have been pretty hot for an 83yr old, If you know what I mean.
Oh, about 83 years.
The TV movie was “Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All.”
Beat me to it!
One of my wife's ancestors was a Civil War veteran who was in his 70's when his first wife - with whom he had many children - passed away. He then married the widow of another Civil War veteran. I believe in this case it was a way for two distinctly "unwealthy" older people who had lost their spouses to achieve some degree of mutual support in the 1920's.
This woman eventually got the pension of my wife's ancestor, but I do not know if she "double dipped" and concurrrently got the pension from her first husband. In any event, she had no children and was no spring chicken herself, so she couldn't have collected either for very long.
The oldest living Confederate Widow or something like that.
btt
We might have civil war pension again soon
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