Getting married at 14 wasn’t all that odd at the time...
I know someone whose great-grandparents married when they were both 13. This was in the early 1900s.
History for most Americans only starts on 7 December 1941. Beyond that...it’s a hopeless thing. Most of the real history of the 1920s and 1930s....are captured on three pages of text, and people have no grasp of period.
I was reading over Lincoln’s mother, her period in North Carolina, and the “deal” to get her hooked to Tom Lincoln. At the time when the arrangement was being worked...she was thirteen years old, and generally felt to already be pregnant.
You can find dozens of marriages along the Oregon Trail where some fourteen year old teen is married by the end of the eight-month trip to some kid in another wagon.
1000 years ago, girls between ages 12-15 were married all over the world. Average Life expectancy was very short, south of age 30. So as soon as the girls began menstruating, off they went to be married.
Did the Mormons stone any women to death? Did they behead non believers? In which year this mr. Smith died? I confess, I know nothing about Mormons.
Somehow Mormons are blind this. It should be clear to anyone that Smith was no prophet but a man driven by greed and lust.
Getting married at 14 wasn’t all that odd at the time..
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being one of 40 other wives was...
It happened although it wasn’t as common as people think, since the average marriage age was in the 20s, but which wife of his was this?
That’s what I was thinking.
Yes, and my grandmother was married at 15—she was a Roman Catholic.
You are sure about that?