On January 19, 1937, 22-year-old tobacco farmer Charlie Johns married his 9-year-old neighbor, Eunice Winstead.
Johns falsified Winstead’s age in order to obtain their marriage license. At the time of their marriage, the state of Tennessee had no minimum age for marriage.
Though the mothers of Johns and Winstead initially believed that Eunice was too young to marry, they ultimately decided to approve the matrimony.
In December 1942, at the age of fifteen years, Winstead gave birth to the couple’s first child. They subsequently had eight more children during their marriage.
The couple remained married until Johns’ death in 1997, which was followed by Winstead’s death in 2006.
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