Since so of us seem to argue with everyone and what everyone says, I would like to add to this marrying young. It's not really marrying young but it is something that also went on back then. My great grandfather not only married a young girl but also let her sister come along. He had a total of children by both of these young ladies. The sister that her really married died young and he never married the other sister. They were common law husband and wife. She also raised all the children as her own. Now you can argue with this but this is a fact.