Last widow of a civil war veteran dies

Now we can begin healing

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He was 93 years old; she was 17

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He was also married to Barbra Streisand.

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any idea how much his pension was?

getting a pension for 84 years seems pretty sweet

I wonder if she at least thanked him for it

It says in the letter that she never applied for the pension.

Irene Triplett, Last person to receive a pension from the U.S. Civil War, has died at the age of 90. Triplett’s father, Mose Triplett, began fighting in the war for the Confederacy but defected to the North in 1863. His decision earned his daughter Irene, the product of a late-in-life marriage to a woman who is 50 years his junior, a pension of $73.13 a month from the Department of Veteran Affairs.

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a little more than a 2nd round stimulus check a year.

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She never even took it.

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I read everything except that last sentence