On May 31st, 2020, Irene Triplett passed away at the age of 90.

Her life was rather unremarkable save for one important fact.

She was the last person to receive a pension from the United States government from the US Civil War.

Find out how a woman who died two decades into the 21st century was still receiving a pension

from a war which ended 155 years ago on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. This episode is sponsored by Audible.

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Irene Triplett was born in 1930 in Wilkes County, North Carolina, 65 years after the end of the US Civil War.

How she ended up receiving a Civil War pension

is one of those stories that you wouldn't believe if it wasn't true, but when you do

the math it actually does work out. Her father was Mo's Triplett, was a veteran of the Civil War. He had the

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