A Military Pension

[Jim Koepke]

Somethings are amazing coincidences of history:


The check arrived every month: $73.13.

Irene Triplett, who lived in a North Carolina nursing home, rarely talked about the source of the money. She was the last American to receive a pension from the Civil War — $877.56 a year from the Department of Veterans Affairs.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2020/06/04/she-was-last-american-collect-civil-war-pension-7313-month-she-just-died/

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[Frederick Skelly]

Yeah, I saw that. Fascinating story. Her Dad was in his early 80s when she was born? Wow!

[Michael Weber]

She sure had a hard life.

[Rick Potter]

Hmm. Did you just use an Oxford semicolon Mike?

[Bill Dufour]

My great grandmother got a widowers civil war pension in the depression. It was about $50 back then. It may have been more then most since he had been a POW. My dad remembered it was not much money when she moved in with them after her husband died. But when the depression hit $50 a month was not too bad of an income.
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[Michael Weber]

Hmm. Did you just use an Oxford semicolon Mike? my fourth favorite thing Rick.:)