From Wikipedia: The marriage of 22-year-old Charlie Johns and 9-year-old Eunice Winstead was a child marriage that took place in Tennessee in January 1937. The event received national attention after Life magazine published an article the following month. In response to Johns and Winstead’s marriage, the state of Tennessee introduced a law setting the minimum age of marriage at sixteen. They stayed married for 60 years and had nine children. She had the first aged 15. Less than a century ago! |