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"Nirvana lasted longer than the Confederacy" (Original Post)
kpete
Jun 2020
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And in many cases, ancestors didn't live in the south or didn't support the confederacy,
Renew Deal
Jun 2020
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Renew Deal
(81,844 posts)1. And in many cases, ancestors didn't live in the south or didn't support the confederacy,
So the chances of being a descendent of old southern racists is pretty small.
Roc2020
(1,613 posts)2. wow. truth and facts are stubborn things.
progree
(10,890 posts)3. "great great great great grandfather". Or father. The daughter of a Civil War vet recently died
Irene Triplett, last person to collect an American civil war pension, dies at 90
The Guardian, June 7, 2020,
The last person to receive a US government pension from the American civil war has died.
Irene Triplett was 90 when she died last Sunday in Wilkesboro, North Carolina. Her father, Mose Triplett, fought for the Confederacy and the Union in the civil war, which began in 1861 and ended with the defeat of the slave power in 1865. He applied for his Union pension 20 years after the war and in 1930, when his daughter was born, he was 83.
Irene Triplett was 90 when she died last Sunday in Wilkesboro, North Carolina. Her father, Mose Triplett, fought for the Confederacy and the Union in the civil war, which began in 1861 and ended with the defeat of the slave power in 1865. He applied for his Union pension 20 years after the war and in 1930, when his daughter was born, he was 83.
He fought for the Confederacy, then deserted and fought for the Union.
Mind-boggling when one realizes the Civil War ended 155 years ago.
Mose Triplett was unsurprisingly not popular in post-war North Carolina but eventually, in 1924, still childless, he married a second time. He was nearly 80. His new wife, Elida Hall, was 34. As the Journal put it, such an age difference wasnt rare, especially during the Great Depression when civil war veterans found themselves with both a pension and a growing need for care.
Triplett and Hall had five children but only two survived: Irene, who like her mother suffered from mental disabilities, and Everette, a son born when Mose Triplett was 87. As the Journal wrote in 2014, Irene and Everette Triplett were born in tough country during tough times. The forested hills ran with white lightning from illegal stills. Ms Triplett said she didnt drink moonshine, but she got hooked on tobacco in first grade.
... A lot of people were interested in her story, Phillips said, but shed always deflect the conversation to something different going on in the news.
More: https://news.yahoo.com/irene-triplett-last-person-collect-100048991.html
Triplett and Hall had five children but only two survived: Irene, who like her mother suffered from mental disabilities, and Everette, a son born when Mose Triplett was 87. As the Journal wrote in 2014, Irene and Everette Triplett were born in tough country during tough times. The forested hills ran with white lightning from illegal stills. Ms Triplett said she didnt drink moonshine, but she got hooked on tobacco in first grade.
... A lot of people were interested in her story, Phillips said, but shed always deflect the conversation to something different going on in the news.
More: https://news.yahoo.com/irene-triplett-last-person-collect-100048991.html
I know this is Off Topic, but it's so fascinating that I can't resist. I don't post it to be contradictory at all.
Note also that she's the last Civil War pensioner. It doesn't say she was the last living child of a Civil War vet. Presumably there are still other ones out there. Imagine putting on your Match.com dating profile that your father fought in the Civil War.
niyad
(113,049 posts)5. Utterly fascinating. Thank you so much for sharing.
yardwork
(61,538 posts)4. Truth.
Nitram
(22,759 posts)6. Well said!
Salviati
(6,008 posts)7. New Coke lasted longer than the confederacy.
New Coke put up a longer fight than the confederacy. It lasted 7 years before being renamed Coke II, and then hung on for another decade before finally admitting defeat.
Nancy Waterman
(6,407 posts)8. And how long did slavery last?
And Jim Crow?
And the KKK?
And lynchings?
And the Trump cult?
TexasBushwhacker
(20,136 posts)9. And by seceding from the US, they were committing a federal crime n/t
Wednesdays
(17,309 posts)10. The Continental Football League
lasted longer than the C.S.A.
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