I wasn’t referring to these specific instances. I was referring to the age of marriage to point out that the current social and legal norms were different in the 1800s.
In other words it wasn’t all that unusual for a 30 yr old man to marry a younger woman, some times as young as 15. Heck I remember hearing about people in my grandmothers generation getting married as young as 13.
Now anyone doing that today would be deemed a deviant and rightly so.
Those ages are still legal in some states, it is not now or has it ever been legal in the US to “marry 50 women”, or marry women who were already married.
Is it normal for a 30 year old man to hit on a 12 year old girl ???
Joey Smith did that to one of his young victims ..
She managed to rebuff him until she was 15 ...
Joey Smith was one sick lustful dog...