Off topic maybe but that factoid is freaking insane if true!!!!
HKShooter65,
YEP. With consent of the parents, you may lawfully marry at age 14 in Texas.
(It's a 19th Century law that's never been changed.)
Fyi, my g-g-grandmother was married on her 15th birthday in 1864, shortly after she completed her public school education.
(My g-grandfather was born almost 2 months after she turned 16. - She birthed 11 boys & 9 girls. Only 12 of her children attained the age of 12YO.)
She & my g-g-grandfather were married for over 61 years until she passed away.
Note: in early TX, for every child who "--- lived to the age of a year & a day", the parents were gifted with 80 acres of land.= That was the major reason that TX families were then so large.
My mother always said that: "Frontier Texas was heaven for men & dogs but hell for women & horses."
(It was far from unusual for a man to outlive 4-6 wives, many of whom died in childbirth.)
yours, satx
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