The last person to receive a Civil War-era pension died last week

[Maverick]

The last person to receive a Civil War-era pension died in North Carolina last week, according to reports.

The Wall Street Journal reported that Irene Triplett died at a nursing home in Wilkesboro on May 31. She was 90.

Triplett’s father, Moses "Mose" Triplett, was a confederate soldier who deserted in 1863 and joined Union forces the following year, according to The Journal. The Wilkes-Journal Patriot reports that he married Irene’s mother Elida Hall in 1924 when he was 78 and she was 28. Mose Triplett was 83 when his daughter was born.

https://www.foxnews.com/science/last-person-civil-war-era-pension-died-last-week

 

[Jayson]

I guess that old bugger liked his wives young.

 

[DrHenley]

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[tmttactical]

OR Irene like the pension plan.