CHILD MARRIAGE IN TENNESSEE
Nine-year-old Bride
"We are going to build a house and start housekeeping.” That, remark, made by thousands of brides, was made recently by nine-year-old Eunice Winstead, of Sneedville, Tennessee, as she revealed that she was married to tweuty-two-year-old Charles Jones. As she spoke she clasped a large doll, a wedding present from her husband. .She played with the doll while her husband cooked the meals.
"Eunice has not. learned to cook yet. 1 am going to make things easy Cor the missus Cor a while, until she learns what ibis marriage business is all about,” drawled Mountaineer Jones.
The couple were married by a minister. the consent of Hie girl’s parents making the ceremony legal under Tennessee Stale law. The bride’s mother, who was married at. the age of sixteen, has another daughter who married al; the ago of thirteen, and is now the muthei; 6‘t a baby.
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Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 154, 27 March 1937, Page VI (Supplement)
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