I just found out about this lady today in an email. She died in 2020 The US have been paying that pension for over 100 years!

This is like a widow of a Vietnam veteran living to the year 2106.

@ThorCarlton

4 жыл бұрын

No it isn't.

@javieranguiano3206

4 жыл бұрын

Crazy but true.

@beezertwelvewashingbeard8703

4 жыл бұрын

There's still a lot of those out there.

@evanw2195

4 жыл бұрын

Holy shit

@ptrekboxbreaks5198

3 жыл бұрын

Plenty of those still around. My dad was in the draft (never was drafted) and he just turned 70. So I can imagine theres tons of widower's left

$73 a month went a long way back then, especially during the Depression.

@williamarchibald1378

5 жыл бұрын

It was over 1000 dollars in the 19th century

@javieranguiano3206

4 жыл бұрын

Yes but understand that those were the inflation rates of that time.

@evanw2195

4 жыл бұрын

5 bucks a day was big money during the depression, 10cents for gas, 10 cents for bread

@ptrekboxbreaks5198

3 жыл бұрын

Especially when gas was under 20 cents a gallon

@thesmithersy

2 жыл бұрын

Shame for them that it was never increased with inflation. It's like the Seigneur of Sark paid the British Monarch £1.63 for the right to rule Sark as a feudal Lord up until the 2000s.

It was not uncommon at that time for young women to marry old Civil War veterans for their pensions. So much so that laws were passed to disqualify them.

RIP Irene Triplett you will be missed

Imagine if a guy fought the war at like 15, and then lived to be 120 uears old, then married a 20 year old girl at 100 something. That girl would be the last civil war widow ever. Literally bei g alive today.

@Titanic19127

4 жыл бұрын

monny287 really?!

@beezertwelvewashingbeard8703

4 жыл бұрын

The only way that could happen is if he came across a lot of money, like winning the lottery or something. What 20 year old would marry a 100 year old man otherwise?

@MayoFilms83

3 жыл бұрын

that movie came out in 1994 with Diane Lane.

@ptrekboxbreaks5198

3 жыл бұрын

@monny287 I believe this lady in the video didnt die until 2020 . That's what someone said, but I could totally be wrong

@KentPetersonmoney

2 жыл бұрын

Most 20-year-old girls aren't going to find a 100-year-old man attractive. a 20-year-old girl could injure a 100-year-old if she tried to have fun with him as if he was a young man.

The old man in the overalls is Zeletese Walsh, he’s my great uncle and all those Tripletts my cousins

Yes, she was born around 1930. He died when she was about 6 or 7.

@ptrekboxbreaks5198

3 жыл бұрын

I saw she didnt pass until 2020??

@randomm392

3 жыл бұрын

She was born 1919.

He served on both sides he should have gotten two pensions

@StephanieDeAyalaLarragoiti

5 ай бұрын

😂

He switched sides mid war lol thats epic

I literally just found out about this lady... Wow. I wish I could have talked to her. I bet they never gave her any real help like todays pensioners.

According to the UDC, there's a somewhat large chance that there are still two alive, one in Tennessee and one in Virginia. They either don't want to be known, or have passed away.

@jasonx-ray3921

7 ай бұрын

UDS = United Daughters of the Confederacy?

@billclearwater2783

6 ай бұрын

​@@jasonx-ray3921UDC is United Daughters of the Confederacy, yes.

Imagine if people were immortal. The tales they would tell.

@davidabbott1959

2 жыл бұрын

We will hear them personally in the great by and by...

@jephrokimbo9050

2 жыл бұрын

for one thing the Earth would run out of space for people to live and secondly there would be a great deal more INSANE PEOPLE from all of the chaos that has occurred in the past along with the trauma associated with those events.

@nocturnalrecluse1216

2 жыл бұрын

@@markfrost4785 Adam?

RIP Ma'am.🙏🙏

The last child born to a Civil War vet was Bob Hottenstine of Bartlesville, OK

Miss Irene must have lived a hard life, for only being 84 here she looks 94 or more

@BigRiceEnergy

Жыл бұрын

According to articles I read, she was physically abused by both her parents growing up. When her dad, she and her family had to move into poorhouse because her mom’s mental disability made it hard for her to keep a job. She, like her mom, had mental disabilities and she ended up living in a nursing home for the entirety of her life

And now May 31,2020 she is gone too...RIP

@Titanic19127

4 жыл бұрын

Very sad... 2020 has been a awful year. She would have been 94.

@ptrekboxbreaks5198

3 жыл бұрын

SHE ONLY DIED THIS YEAR

Irene Triplett died the day after my grandfather did. He died of lung cancer at the age of 77

@jamesagwe2981

3 жыл бұрын

May they both along my own grandfather (whom died before I was born) rest in peace

@claudethesilentman7841

3 жыл бұрын

@@jamesagwe2981 I lost my grandad at 48 In June 2007 2 months after I was born Motor Neurone Disease😔

I find it so very interesting that people exist that remember things like world war 1 and the depression. Even the moon landing. Of course there would be nobody who fought the Civil War alive today because it was over 200 years ago but this is the closest thing and I really find that great. I hope she lives good life.

@mariocisneros911

4 жыл бұрын

154 yrs ago not way off 200. Many old guys with money were accepted as husbands because people were/ are poor and marry their daughters off for money

@ptrekboxbreaks5198

3 жыл бұрын

The moon landing? Lmfao that was only the 60s. My dad was under 15 so he clearly remembers it

@JustRyan76

3 жыл бұрын

@@ptrekboxbreaks5198 lol

@gardensofthegods

Жыл бұрын

@@ptrekboxbreaks5198 Yep I was 11 years old during the moon landing . I remember it very clearly ... seems like it was just last month ... there was a full moon ... every now and then somebody would go out and just look up at the moon and then go back in and watch it on TV .

@Raydington

5 ай бұрын

The older I get the more I realize how a short amount of time a hundred years really is.

That's quite a story, very interesting.

I think Walter Williams was the last Civil war veterin to die in 1959..

Why would a daughter receive a pension? Don't get it...

@TheMrPeteChannel

4 жыл бұрын

Some daughters & sons of fallen police officers get a pension.

@ashleyhorn5381

4 жыл бұрын

Immediate family of KIA or vet military and some officers receive pensions. This woman would receive the pension because she’s the only living, immediate family member of that soldier. If her mother were still alive, the mom would receive the pension, then, once the mother is dead, the next of kin (the eldest child or the only living child) would get it. Idk if parents of fallen/vet soldiers get it, but I think so, and only if they have no spouse or child at the time of their death.

@gregoryburns648

3 жыл бұрын

@@floatingaround22 the military still receives pensions.

@ninjaked1265

3 жыл бұрын

She was born disabled that’s why

@CaptainSpalding72

2 жыл бұрын

the same reason children get Social security payments if the parents die before the kid is 18.... Ass.

He was a smart Southerner

amazing!

@williamzhao2521

5 жыл бұрын

someone is going to happy with their new pension cuts.

Irene is my Great-great-great Grandma's sister

So... at 84, if she marries a 20years old... ?

@JustRyan76

3 жыл бұрын

30 year old, it was 50 years between

She was the daughter

So when was this film made ? Was she born 1930 ?

@ptrekboxbreaks5198

3 жыл бұрын

She was born 1930. I believe passed away in 2020

@davidjames666

3 жыл бұрын

born in 1930, and she was 84 would make this video made in the 2014 timeframe. to think she lived 6 more years after this video was taken

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Interesting

We hiring doctors all over the world to have a good health to the veterans. Take care of all the old grandma and grandpa . They are the eldest here in United States .

What year did he die

@Willy1811

5 жыл бұрын

1938

How could he have fought on both sides of the war and not go to jail for being a traitor that is one tough brave man I am so glad she got a pension but after the years went by and things started going up in price why didn't they raise her pension she should have been getting paid by then on what every one got paid who fought in other wars since then that doesn't seem kind of fair to me especially since the civil war was the bloodiest war I think they said over 600 thousand people died in it it would be kind of neat to know exactly how many people actually fought in that war then and what did they do with all of the bodies that dropped from both sides I know people stole the deads Boots and what clothes or what ever else that they have in thier bag's that is pretty crazy to think about too did they dig pits in the ground and put the dead on top of each other and closed it up I just don't understand how they could have had time to bury each person individually and not be shot at I also wonder how many of them died from injuries and from surgeries and I read that it was common for young women to marry older men who fought in the civil war and they were trying to deny them pensions because of it that is crazy it must have been really hard times for everyone

@jasonb.6623

6 ай бұрын

No computers in 1864 ... Record keeping was all by paper and the records existed only where the paper existed. Something like this could very easily have occurred (and probably happened more than we think). If you "deserted", it was next to impossible to find you in 1864 America.

Any pensiones from the Confederate States of America?

@robertbuckley550

6 жыл бұрын

Hey, Jeffrey ... not that I'm aware of. The foot soldier pensions from the CSA were meager and not long-lived, from what I was able to find. This, as you saw, was an unusual case of an 80-year-old man's (at the time of birth) now 80-year-old daughter.

@jeffreyd508

6 жыл бұрын

Robert Buckley He married her in his 70s and she was like 14 right?

@robertbuckley550

6 жыл бұрын

Mose was in his late 70s when he married a woman who was 35, and they had a child who was born when Mose was 80. That daughter was 80 when we did the story and that daughter is now 80 and she is the one drawing the pension.

@ernesthegmann699

5 жыл бұрын

How can she Receive a Pension from a Government that hasn't been around since May 1865?

@brianhopkins3857

5 жыл бұрын

Ernest Hegmann because he switched sides...he was with the US army after he deserted the Confederate army

I will always bleed GRAY good ole REBEL

an 80 yr old fertilizing a woman and having a daughter.

@KentPetersonmoney

2 жыл бұрын

I never understood why men are able to have kids that long. Not good for the kid since they'll be taking care of their father before they even make it to their teens. Chances of them dying before they hit graduation would be high.

@epaminon6196

2 жыл бұрын

#Invidelity

@NoOne-kr4jc

2 жыл бұрын

​@@KentPetersonmoney Well back then, women had a closer fatality to death. There can be plenty of birth complications from what I can imagine. In my tree, so many died off. Some men had 16 children, which were from more than one marriage. I wonder if it is something in the Bible that tells them to continue to take a shot.

Absolutely bullshyt!!!. I cant believe people fall for these lies... Gawd!!;

The day George Floyd died in police custody, the daughter of a Civil War veteran was still alive. Let that sink in.

@Casey28027

3 жыл бұрын

He was a criminal. Let that sink in.

@NJGuy1973

3 жыл бұрын

@@Casey28027 My point is, slavery isn't as far in the past as we think.

@pjvalenzona2002

3 жыл бұрын

@@Casey28027 doesn't mean he deserved to die. He didn't do anything that warranted being killed by a police officer. Goddamn bootlicking idiot does human life have 0 value to you?

@paddyret7968

2 жыл бұрын

@@pjvalenzona2002 Doesnt mean his life was worth much either, not enough for hundreds of thousands, possibly millions to live in fear for almost a year like myself watching our cities burn

@minotaurminott3105

2 жыл бұрын

Slavery is still going on around the world

he was a trader and tried to be a sugar daddy off the gov. money.....call it what it is.

She lived her whole life off the American taxpayer! Excellent work!

@BigRiceEnergy

Жыл бұрын

She had mentally disabilities you piece of shit

@madc2004

5 ай бұрын

She had impairments, that's why she got the pension, she wasn't able to work

If getting a pension softens the blow of having to admit he was a traitor then do be it.

So she can get a pension for Civil War shit but the ex slaves relatives can't get 40 acres and a mule or some form or reparations to people who decend from ex slaves that they were promised by the US Govt back then??? GET THE FUCK OUTTA HERE 🤬

@lostsailor2089

2 жыл бұрын

The united states fought a devastating war to end slavery. The north didn't have to fight that war, they could have just let the south have their own country with slavery and be done with it. Many formal slaves were given the 40 acres until the program was stopped by the democrats in 1865 after Lincolns assassination.

@epaminon6196

2 жыл бұрын

Good idea. There is so much irradiated desert land out there in Nevada. And a lot of mules that are too old to be of much use anymore. It's high time for the distant descendants of those wronged people to get their due. Next up: North Africans demanding reparations from Italy for the destruction of Carthage during the 2nd century BC.