Irene Triplett
publication date: Wednesday, June 11, 2025 (part of June 2025)
category: 
Records
clue: She didn't have two identical siblings, but she did have a different family connection that brought her fame (and government money) in the years preceding her 2020 death, one involving her father's actions more than a century and a half earlier.
explanation: Triplett was the last person to receive a pension for the American civil war. Her father Mose Triplett had fought for the Confederacy and later for the Union, and collected a pension until his death in 1938 at the age of 92, after which Triplett (born in 1930) collected the pension as the dependent child of a veteran for the rest of her life. more…
intended difficulty: hard
solved by: Russ Wilhelm, Steve West, Samir Mehta, and Richard Slominsky
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