A Scottboro couple recently celebrated their 80th wedding anniversary, one of the longest marriages among living people when compared to reports in the 2007 Guinness Book of World Records.
Alonzo, 97, and Beulah Sims, 94, celebrated their anniversary a day early Sunday at the nursing home where they have lived since May 2002.
I am not even going to write anything. Take a minute and re-read to the above sentences. Have you done the math in your head yet?
Waiting………..There it is. Sure it was 1927 but I think that is a pretty young age to be married even in those days. I got no problem with a couple of young kids in love. The weird part is that someone qualified to wed people said “Yeah, I got no problem with this.”
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My parents are from Scottsboro. AL-A-BAMA.
Alonzo was the R. Kelly of the 1920s!
Do they know the Sims?
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