[cripplecreek]

In the town where I grew up there was a couple in which the husband was quite elderly and the wife was middle aged. I asked one of the local old timers about it and he said that the couple had eloped when he was 25 and she was 13 or 14.

They ran off and got married down south. When they returned to Michigan her parents had him arrested and he went to prison for 5 years. When he got out of prison the couple got right back together and continued their marriage for another 60 years untill he died.

[SteveMcKing]

Beautiful story.

Ask half of the folks here, and the two of them would go to prison for decades.

[vikzilla]

When they returned to Michigan her parents had him arrested and he went to prison for 5 years. When he got out of prison the couple got right back together and continued their marriage for another 60 years untill he died.

Wow!

[Northern Alliance]

In the town where I grew up there was a couple in which the husband was quite elderly and the wife was middle aged. I asked one of the local old timers about it and he said that the couple had eloped when he was 25 and she was 13 or 14.

They ran off and got married down south. When they returned to Michigan her parents had him arrested and he went to prison for 5 years. When he got out of prison the couple got right back together and continued their marriage for another 60 years untill he died.

This happened more than 65 years ago and he went to prison? 13/14 was a fairly typical legally marriageable age in those days. It was as young as 11 in some states. I guess the guy had the misfortune to be living in the wrong state.