WHICKER, Irene (Triplett) (Age 84) July 23, 1930 to August 16, 2014 Irene was born in Kansas City, Missouri to Vernon and Bessie Triplett. In 1936 the family moved to Enumclaw, WA where Bessie had ...

The last person to receive a pension from the Civil War has died. Irene Triplett, whose father Mose Triplett served in the Confederate Army before defecting and joining the Union, died Sunday at age ...

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 final American to receive a pension from the ...

Irene Triplett, the last person receiving a pension from the U.S. Civil War, has died at the age of 90. Ms. Triplett’s father, Mose Triplett, started fighting in the war for the Confederacy, but ...

Irene Triplett, daughter of Civil War veteran Mose Triplett, died Sunday in Wilkesboro, North Carolina, according to The Wall Street Journal. She received a pension of $73.13 a month from the ...

Irene Triplett, the last person to receive a pension from the American Civil War, has passed away at age 90. Triplett died Tuesday after surgical complications following a fall at a North Carolina ...

The Civil War may have ended 152 years ago, but for Irene Triplett, it still continues in a way far more tangible than recent fights over Confederate monuments. For Triplett, 87, the Civil War means a ...

More than 150 years after it ended, the Civil War still directly impacts one woman's life. Irene Triplett, 87, is the last person still receiving a monthly pension for Civil War service from the ...

The last person to receive a Civil War-era pension died in North Carolina last week, according to reports. The Wall Street Journal reported that Irene Triplett died at a nursing home in Wilkesboro on ...

The Civil War may have ended 152 years ago, but for Irene Triplett, it still continues in a way far more tangible than recent fights over Confederate monuments. For Triplett, 87, the Civil War means a ...

Civil War veteran Moses Triplett, second from right, with his first wife, Mary, sitting to his left. After Mary's death in the 1920s, Triplett married Elida Hall, 50 years his junior. (Courtesy ...