100 years ago today: Wedded Bliss
By AmberLynn
@ScribbledAdNauseum (104632)
United States
February 22, 2021 4:05pm CST
This was borrowed from The Prescott daily news. (Prescott, Ark.) 1907-1941, February 22, 1921, Image 1Found on ChroniclingAmerica.Loc.Gov
Doesn't this just warm your heart?
100 years ago today(ish) they celebrated their 75th wedding anniversary. The couple was originally from a little place called Galicia which is located in the Northwest portion of Spain.
Absolutely cute & the woman looks to be wearing a little tiara.
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104632)
• United States
23 Feb 21
I did the math and they would have been around 13 when they married! Wow! (I mean, my grandmother was 16 but 13? wow!)
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@bunnybon7 (50973)
• Holiday, Florida
23 Feb 21
@ScribbledAdNauseum my grandma was 13 and grandpa 20. in late 1800's
at least most marriages lasted then. They had 12 kids and they always still seemed so much in love .when I was little and Im 72 now 
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104632)
• United States
23 Feb 21
@bunnybon7 That kind of an age gap with marriages just isn't heard of today. Of course, I know (first hand) that marriages don't last as long as they used to either. People (not everyone, but a lot) don't want to work on their marriages anymore.
My mom was 13 when she had my brother, but that's another story. I'm pretty sure that's the youngest a woman has had a baby in our family.
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104632)
• United States
23 Feb 21
She does! I love little stories like this and it was on the front page too!
@moffittjc (118590)
• Gainesville, Florida
22 Feb 21
Such a cute couple. And amazing that they were married for so many years. They must have gotten married a quite a young age.
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104632)
• United States
23 Feb 21
Well it says they were 88 in this piece and married for 75 years, so yeah they were around 13 years of age!
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@marlina (154165)
• Canada
23 Feb 21
@ScribbledAdNauseum , Awfully young to get married
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@Chellezhere (5363)
• United States
23 Feb 21
@marlina marrying at the young of an age was not unusual back then.
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@Chellezhere (5363)
• United States
22 Feb 21
That does not sound like a Spanish place name. Are you sure they were not from Galicia in Eastern Europe instead? I have ancestors who came from what is now Ukraine and settled in Arkansas and Oklahoma.
Galicia, historic region of eastern Europe that was a part of Poland before Austria annexed it in 1772; in the 20th century it was restored to Poland but was later divided between Poland and the Soviet Union. During the Middle Ages, eastern Galicia, situat
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104632)
• United States
23 Feb 21
No, I wasn't completely sure when I posted this. I thought Spain was an odd place, but Anna noticed the thing I called a Tiara and explained that it was a comb that Spanish woman wear, so I assume she was from Spain.
@LindaOHio (157371)
• United States
23 Feb 21
75 years is certainly a diamond anniversary. We made it to 50. I wish we could make it to 75.
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104632)
• United States
23 Feb 21
I hope that you will get as close to it as possible.
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104632)
• United States
23 Feb 21
Such a cute little couple too! I love that style of hat on a man too, why aren't they back in fashion?
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104632)
• United States
23 Feb 21
@CarolDM Well, you aren't wrong. I've seen some very strange styles.
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@CarolDM (203451)
• Nashville, Tennessee
23 Feb 21
@ScribbledAdNauseum I think anything goes these days.
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@kaylachan (58294)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
22 Feb 21
That is cute. I hope my marriage lasts that long.
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@Tina30219 (81536)
• Onaway, Michigan
22 Feb 21
Yes it does because you don’t see many couples stay married that long. I was married 21 years.
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@Tina30219 (81536)
• Onaway, Michigan
23 Feb 21
@ScribbledAdNauseum I am not sure either
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104632)
• United States
23 Feb 21
@Tina30219 I think most people just stay in a committed relationship now without getting married. It's the easier thing in my opinion.
@ScribbledAdNauseum (104632)
• United States
23 Feb 21
I was married 2.5.
Not sure I want to ever get married again.
Not sure I want to ever get married again.
@ScribbledAdNauseum (104632)
• United States
23 Feb 21
Absolutely! Lots of people give up way before that now.
@ScribbledAdNauseum (104632)
• United States
23 Feb 21
Oh, thank you very much for clarifying that for me. I was just basing it from what I could make out of the photo.
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@LadyDuck (459448)
• Switzerland
23 Feb 21
@ScribbledAdNauseum I show you how a peineta looks like. I have one somewhere that I bought in Spain, just because I liked it.
