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There was mention in that second reference that the Western US and frontier areas continued to marry at younger ages just like the early Colonial East coast did. So, I am thinking this was the age of 15 to a few years older, not counting some of the even younger Morman marriages at that time.
Plus, even though women may not be married by their 30's and are "spinsters", most did eventually marry when first wives died in childbirth and those husbands remarried to have a "woman" take care of them, their children, and homes.
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