[LMB] Age at first marriage

[B. Ross Ashley]

My great-granddaddy Abe Ross married at the relatively advanced age of 
31, but he had been busy in the 7th Florida Infantry until the year 
before. Great-grandma Susan had waited for him, and was 29. Wars apart, 
though, great-great-granddad Hugh was 22 when he married 18-year-old 
Elizabeth in South Carolina in 1834; great-granddad Charles Tetro, on 
the other hand, married at the age of 35, the 23-year-old Harriet Jane 
French, in 1893.

IOW, these Florida cattlemen and New England factory workers were not 
marrying any earlier than I did.

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