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TheDrMonocle t1_iwelb5t wrote

Reply to comment by Jaded_Prompt_15 in TIL the last Civil War widow died in 2020. by sturnus-vulgaris

>So she got a widow's pension until the day she died.

I may be wrong, but isnt it only $25? Also OP copied the article, apparently she never took the pension.

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Jaded_Prompt_15 t1_iwell13 wrote

It was a substantial amount around the Great Depression...

Which I'm pretty sure was around when they married.

But I'm going off memory, this just gets reposted constantly

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