Anybody else’s grandma marry this young?

Grandmother was 16 when she got married

My grandmaw on my dad's side was 14 when she married my grandpaw, who was 24.

I know things like this were somewhat common back in the day, but I cannot wrap my mind around marrying a child who hasn't even hit double digit years yet.

Just, why? And how? And...so many fricking questions but I don't know that I want answers to because it's fricking sick.

Proving once again that history CANNOT be viewed through a modern lens.

Marrying a 9 y.o. is weird.
I can understand 15 or so.

But, anything pre pubescent is weird AF no matter the time in history.

I have a story like this. I was at a bar when I was living in Fayetteville. I was in my mid 20s and saw a woman likely in her mid-30s looking really depressed. She said her grandmother just died two weeks ago and she was depressed about it. I told her that my grandmother also died earlier that year, so I understand it but at least they went down at a ripe old age. She told me that wasn’t the case and that her grandma died in her 50s. I’d been drinking so my response was “Now how in the hell is that possible?” She told me that her mom gave birth to her when she was 12 and that her grandmother gave birth to her mother when she was 13. My drunken response “Well that’s really fricked up.” This pisses her off where she screams that that was the norm back in their day, and then I smart off again “Yeah, it was the norm in the days of Jesus, but not any time recently in this fricking country.” She proceeds to dog cuss and I figure I better get the hell out of there before this hillbilly tries to kick my arse.

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Grandmother was 16 when she got married

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and Grandfather was 22.

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My girlfriend was giving me a blowjob the other day. She looked up at me and called me a pedophile.

The vocabulary on 8 years olds these days is next level.

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I'll give you a Rudy gif clap on this one, it's on an el Gaucho level !

My great great grandfather, in Johnson's Bayou, La., was 52 when he married my great great grandmother who was 15 at the time (in the 1860's). It was his second wife.

Between both wives he had 21 children. She was younger than all the children from his first marriage.