Elizabeth “Lily” Kempson McAlerney, believed to have been the longest surviving rebel in the US of the 1916 Rising, died in the US on January 21, 1996, at 99 years old.
The last remaining person in the U.S. to have fought in the 1916 Rising in Ireland died in Seattle, Washington, at the age of 99 on January 21, 1996. Elizabeth "Lily" Kempson McAlerney, who threatened a man at gunpoint when he wanted to leave the scene of the fighting, was exiled to the U.S. when