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Irene Triplett, the Last Person to Receive a Pension from the US Civil War, Passes Away at 90
TLDR Irene Triplett, the daughter of a Civil War veteran who fought for both the Confederacy and the Union, passed away at the age of 90. She was the last person to receive a pension from the US Civil War, receiving $73.13 every month from her father's death in 1938 until her own death in 2020.
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Irene Triplett, the last person to receive a pension from the US Civil War, passed away at the age of 90.
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Irene Triplett, the last person to receive a pension from the US Civil War, was the daughter of a veteran who fought for both the Confederacy and the Union.
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Moe's Triplett, a Civil War veteran, fell ill before the Battle of Gettysburg and later joined the 3rd North Carolina Mounted Infantry, which fought for the Union, and later had a second wife and five children, including Irene Triplett.
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Irene Triplett, the last child of a Civil War veteran, received her father's pension of $73.13 every month from his death in 1938 to her death in 2020, totaling approximately $17,000.
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The last Civil War widow, Maudie Hopkins, died in 2008 after marrying an 86-year-old Confederate Army veteran at the age of 19, while the last Union widow, Gertrude Janeway, passed away in 2003, and the last documented veteran, Albert Wilson, died in 1956 at the age of 106.
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Peter Mills, born into slavery in 1861, lived to be 110 and was the last surviving person who was born as a slave in the United States.
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Demographers estimate that the last veteran of World War II will pass away around 2044, highlighting the incredible span of some people's lives and the proximity of our own lives to historical events like the Civil War.
