The Semi-Weekly Landmark
Statesville, North Carolina
15 May, 1903

The Bride Not Quite 14.

Troutman Correspondence. Charlotte Observer, 12th.
   This afternoon at the residence of the bride’s father, Mr. Robert Rogers, his daughter, Miss Carrie, was united in marriage to Mr. Wood Gilliland. Both parties are of well-to-do families. The bride lacked a few days of being 14 years of age. There seems no necessity for Mr. Gilliland choosing a child for a bride when the county is full of women between the ages of 20 and 50 who are willing and anxious to marry.

-transcription by Kate Maynard, 2012