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Wednesday, September 29, 2021

Consent to Marriage Or I'll Elope With Your 13-Year-Old Daughter, Says 43-Year-Old, Sept. 29, 1921

Kentuckian, 43, Weds a 13-Year-Old Girl

Sergent, Ky., Sept. 21--”That love laughs at locksmiths” is proven in the marriage at Neally, a little hamlet below here in Perry County, a day or so ago by James Harrison Caskey, aged 43, a former Virginian to Miss Lillian Fletcher barely 13 years old, a winsome school girl whom he met a few days before. At first parents of the school girl made a bitter protest, but when the “man at the helm” declared he would elope with the girl if parents would not give her up, they consented. The mother, it is said accompanied the groom-to-be to Hazard, the county seat, to obtain a license the day before the ceremony was performed. Invited guests came from every quarter to witness the unique ceremony and a fine dinner was served. All partook. This was a remarkable wedding according to witnesses.

The bride “tips the beam” at less than 90 pounds. She is winsome, sweet and lovable, a disposition that takes among her friends who are legion. It is said the mother of the child bride is but 27 and she is 14 years older than her daughter, who has just been married. The groom came to this state from Virginia some years ago and since which time he has been employed at a diversity of work in the coal fields. They will go to First Creek to reside, where he has employment with one of the coal companies there.

From the front page of The Mount Airy News, Thursday, Sept. 29, 1921

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