I worked with a guy in Western North Carolina. He was a great guy I liked him as well as anyone I have ever known.
One day we were discussing beautiful girls and he happened to mention that he and his wife were married when she was 12 and he was 18. They had been married nearly 40 years.
My older Brother married a 16 year old in Alabama. They had a tough time for the first few years but eventually became comfortable and lived in an old mansion which they restored.
They were a very handsome couple thus not surprising that their four Daughters and one Son were too. Two of their Daughters were queens of their respective universities and I always thought the youngest one was the prettiest of all.
They are now buried beside each other near here.
My mom’s from western Carolina. My aunt and her boyfriend at the ripe old ages of 15 & 16 respectively were married about 63 years ago and going strong. (She makes the world’s best beef stew and biscuits on her old wood stove.)