Family Man In The Class
At 17. one of the boys in her class at a high school in Harrison. Ohio, had been married for two years and had a son, said Miss Jean Polson, of Waimate, on tier return after a year in the United States as an American field scholar. He lived with his wife in a 60ft long trailer in the back yard of the girl’s family home.
In Ohio girls and boys were allowed to marry at 16 with their parents’ consent. If they wished, they could cross into Kentucky and get married at 15, she said. But it was usually the "hill-billies” who married in their early teens in Kentucky. she said. They had their own language and lived in their own groups in the hills of Tennessee. Indiana, and West Virginia, as well as in Kentucky, Miss Polson said
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Press, Volume CI, Issue 29909, 24 August 1962, Page 2
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