something you don't see every day

[jeff of pa]

thankfully

 

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[DizzyDigger]

It's rare, but I'm at a loss for words on this one.

 

[jeff of pa]

looks like she was 12 when they married also she was still a Veol in March 1

 

[jeff of pa]

only thing that would make sense If she Caught Typhoid or Something
& For some reason Being Married Before she Died was Important

 

[BigWaveDave]

Now I gotta ask…. How did that come up in your research?

 

[jeff of pa]

yep on the typhoid Also They were Both 12

Perhaps the saddest story is that of Hattie Starnes. She married Jim Starnes at the age of 12 and died of typhoid fever just before her 13th birthday. In the 1900 Federal census, Jim is listed as being 12 years old and working in a cotton mill. Census records show that Cotton Mill Worker was the largest employment category in the census district where he lived at the turn of the century. As we said, the setting is peaceful but life in 19th century Polk County was difficult.

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[jeff of pa]

awesome church

 

[jeff of pa]

Now I gotta ask…. How did that come up in your research?

The Picture of the Church on google images Pulled Me in
But Still not sure it Is the Church connected to the Story

 

[Red-Coat]

Interesting.

Under English civil law, the minimum age for marriage was 12 years for females and 14 years for males until 1753, and those became the default minimum ages in colonial America. The English Marriage Act 1753 still permitted child marriages at those ages but introduced marriage licences requiring parental consent for those under 21, or the publication of ‘banns’, which parents of those under 21 could forbid.

Those requirements remained in force in the United States until and unless a specific state law was enacted to replace or modify the Act.

[Child marriage is, I believe, still currently legal in 37 states in America and 20 of them have set no minimum age for marriage if there is a parental or judicial waiver. There is also a “statutory rape exception” when one of the partners is below the age of consent such that child marriage is considered a valid defence.]

 

[Jeff H]

Children marrying children. Yeah they had to grow up quicker back then but still disgusting. It is horrifying to consider that still occurs these days. Men marrying child brides under the guise of "religious" tradition. They should be charged with rape and castrated.

 

[jeff of pa]

in this case I think it was Puppy Love & both Famalies Agreed as a Dying Wish

There Could Not have been a consumation being she was apparently on her Death Bed.

that is IF the Story is true & Not one of those Romatic tales
Historians Like to make up and put in their local history Books to explain a strange happening

 

[BennyV]

I was thinking Maybe it was arranged and the deal never closed.