Last Person Receiving Pension from Civil War-Era Dies-Post a coin
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Last Person Receiving Pension from Civil War-Era Dies
June 4, 2020
Please post a Civil War Era coin/token in her memory.
On Sunday May 31, Irene Triplett, the last person receiving a pension from the U.S. Civil War, died at the age of 90 following complications from surgery, according to the Wilkesboro, North Carolina nursing facility where Triplett lived.
Before her death Triplett continued to receive $73.13 a month from the Department of Veterans Affairs—nearly 155 years after the bullets stopped.
Triplett’s father, Private Mose (sometimes written as “Moses”), holds the distinction of fighting for both the Confederacy and the Union. At the age of 16, Mose enlisted as a Confederate soldier in the 53rd North Carolina Infantry in May 1862, before transferring to the 26th North Carolina Infantry Regiment. As his regiment marched through Virginia prior to the Gettysburg campaign, Mose fell ill and remained in a military hospital for the duration of the battle. He was one of the few who survived unscathed.
An interesting read here https://www.historynet.com/last-person-receiving-a-pension-from-civil-war-era-dies.htm
Please post a Civil War Era coin/token in her memory.
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Interesting story. How can one really be sure it's the last person? To me, many people would be at her age today? Receiving a pension though? Can't imagine living in that era, wow!
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I think he switched sides just to get the pension!
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Interesting story. Sounds like she had a pretty sad life though despite its length.
Our connection with the past isn’t so severed as we think. I just read recently that John Tyler has two living grandchildren. That is, former president John Tyler, born in the 1700s, has two grandchildren alive in 2020. It blew my mind.
Thanks for posting.
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Huh? Maybe 6x’s great grandchildren?
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Interesting story. It really compresses history when these inter-generational anomalies like this pop up. Sad that she and her mother had such a rough life.
He should have joined up with an Illinois unit, then. (Inside joke some will get.)
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Very interesting piece of history. Thanks for posting it.
Nope. Grandchildren.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/how-two-of-president-john-tylers-grandsons-are-still-alive/
As I said. It really compresses history when stuff like this happens.
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Thx for posting. I was thinking about this issue only recently.
I think the last CW widow lasted until not too long ago. She married the veteran many years after the war, obviously.
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If he did, he sure got good value out of it!
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If you like that, you should check this out from 1961 TV show, grandkids of a revolutionary war soldier.
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Right, they know who they are giving pensions to and from what war. If someone was entitled to a civil war pension, but didn't take it they would not be the last pensioner by definition.
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I was blessed to have a long lived great grandmother that was the daughter of a Civil War veteran, she was born when he was a bit over 70 years old. He passed away when she was about 12 years old, but her mother lived deep into the 20th century. My great grandmother was the only person I knew who had memories of a person that fought in the Civil War - a bit of a challenge even when she was in her 90's to get her to talk about it because she was born and lived in a border state where brothers literally fought brothers and the war was a bit of a taboo topic even a few years ago.
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Very interesting read - thank you. Here's one from his home state -
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You're very lucky they deactivated it. I think they usually just do a controlled detonation for old ordnance, such as the bombs that are still unearthed in European cities.
If someone was eligible for a pension but didn't take it I would not call them a pensioner, but rather someone who was eligible for a pension.
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155 years.
Wow.
I was reminded of a visit i made to the National Building Museum in Washington D.C when my brother exhibited there at an art event.
I heard at the time that the original purpose of the building was to house the offices and personnel who would process Civil War pensions. @1630Boston 's reminded me of that visit.
I just looked this up ...
***The historic home of the National Building Museum was built between 1882 and 1887 for three distinct purposes: to house the headquarters of the United States Pension Bureau, to provide a suitably grand space for Washington’s social and political functions, and to commemorate the service of those who fought on the side of the Union during the Civil War.
Before the Civil War, most pensions (money or land grants offered to veterans disabled in the course of military service and to the widows and orphans of officers killed) were paid out by state governments, as many veterans served in state militias, not for the federal government. However, by 1864, of the 51,135 pensioners on the rolls, more than 48,000 had served in the Civil War. By 1871, new claims and new eligibility provisions added over 250,000 new pensioners to the rolls—and the numbers kept increasing. Not only did the Civil War greatly increase the number of pensioners, the war also created a demand for federal workers and office space to administer the pensions. This tremendous growth is what prompted Congress, in 1881, to commission the Pension Building.***
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Holy sh$t. I stand corrected. He was 75 when a son was born. Geez. Well he would only be 93 at his sons high school graduation.
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According to OPs story, she must have been born in 1930. Private Mose was 16 in 1862... he would have been 84 when she was born! Quite the guy...
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Good thread with interesting info...
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