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Message: <blockquote data-quote="C_Hallbert" data-source="post: 4166813" data-attributes="member: 42957"><p>My wife’s Grandmother was 14 when she married her 26 year old Choctaw husband (with her family’s permission). I’ve seen remarks that suggested she was too young to marry and that this relationship was child abuse. They married for life and she loved that man with all hee heart. I know for a fact that from the day they married, if people came to save her from her situation, she’d have fought them off with a shotgun! She gave birth at home to 9 children and raised 2 more. While her husband worked in the coal mines, farmed and ranched, she cooked, canned and gardened. Later, she worked at McAlester Naval Ammunition Depot during the war. With no only a grammar school education, she taught her husband to read and speak English; kept the books for their family business and negotiated purchases of what later amassed to 1400 acres with mineral rights, but the U.S. Army Corps of Engineer took 700 acres of their best bottom land in the 1960s.  She managed the ranch with one of her son’s working the cows and after her husband died in 1973. I used to stop by to check on her when I was in the area. One day, I walked in the kitchen and she was sitting down catching her breath (she was in her 80s); there was a fire burning in a 55 gallon drum in the yard. I asked if she was okay. She said she was fine but that she’d beaten a skunk to death with a broom handle because it was chasing the hound dogs around the yard.at high noon. What a lady! She always kept her husband in her heart…..my wife is as much like her as a person can be, but we married when she was 19 and serving as a U.S. Navy Corpswave (Corpsman). We’ll be married 53 years on December 19th…. , God willing.</p></blockquote><p></p>

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