Posted on 06/17/2015 9:45:24 PM PDT by Leaning Right
WILKESBORO, N.C. — Each month, Wilkesboro’s Irene Triplett collects $73.13 from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs as a pension payment for her father’s military service — in the Civil War.
Triplett, 84, is the last living person collecting a pension payment for service in the Civil War.
Pvt. Mose Triplett was born in 1846 and lived to the age of 92. After his first wife’s death, he married Elida Hall, nearly 50 years his junior, in 1924.
In 1930, Irene Triplett was born when her father was 84 and her mother was 34.
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Presented as a break from all the bad news about trade deals and out-of-control politicians.
I did not know your father’s pension could supplement a daughter’s medical bills?
Is this being properly applied or is this an oversight?
Another site mentioned that the lady’s father joined the Confederate Army, but deserted to the Union in 1862. Perhaps that explains why she lives in North Carolina.
So they married, when he was 78. And she was 28. Either he or she must have been very exceptional in some way.
Old Civil War vet marries a much younger woman...I have read elsewhere that this was not uncommon back in the 1920s and 30s.
Those were hard times for many folks. I'm not saying it was the case here, but a Civil War pension (with rights of survivorship) could have looked mighty attractive to a desperate younger woman.
Didn’t the last CW widow die about 10-15 years ago? Same deal the guy married a way younger woman than he was.
It’s his daughter (from the 2nd, younger wife).
$73.13??
She's getting rooked. Even if you start the inflation adjustment in 1930, when she was born, the check amount should be $1036.08. According to the BLS.
Interesting. Thank you for posting it.
78 year old dude, says to 65 year old dude, you want to know how I could do this? 65 year old dude says, no, I don't want to know how you can do this. I want to know how I can do it. 78 year old dude was probably telling everyone, eat your hearts out you old duffers.
:-)
I took the dude's advice.
There were a large number of Southerners in the Union army, and a smaller number of Northerners fighting for South. One’s state did not always determine affiliation. Secession was not universally embraced by all Southerners, not all Yankees were Abolitionists.
Actual he told her he was 92 she didn’t expect him to live so long.
My word. The dude was even smarter than I thought. Maybe it wasn't just the companionship he wanted either.
:-)
And Not likely to be a very ,er, demanding position with such an old coot....
He was getting a government check and she wanted it.
It looks like he got what he wanted too. Her young nubile self. She wasn't the only gold digger here. I bet there are lots of 78 year old dudes, who look at 28 year old women and wish. He actually got one. I met a retired US Navy guy about 10 years ago. He was 78, his wife was 25. When he died, she got some good money, but they both got what they wanted. It worked for them.
As fraud, waste, and abuse goes, this is way (way) toward the bottom of the list.
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