He was 18 and she was 3 years older. This is the couple who, with their children, came to America in 1846.
Mountain people love their country, especially their particular little corner of it.
They can scarcely ever be persuaded to leave it. But they and their neighbors were tired of the continual wars and revolutions, and the sacrifice of their sons, and decided to go to America. They loaded their wagons, and said goodbye knowing they would never be back. They started off on the 600 mile trip across France .