I saw that this morning and thought "Awww! Too cute! The world's longest marriage and it so happens to be a Black marriage in the South. Who woulda thunk!?"
He's 104 and she's 101, which means he was 19 and she was 16. They were born in the early 1900s (I assume in NC). So it is still cute (assuming it is a healthy and happy marriage), but it's no longer shockingly awesome.
PrettyBoy, 47 years is darn good and context matters.
Perhaps your parents will make it to 85 years, but that is generally a testament to longer than average life expectancy. People who get married later in life would be doing darn well if they made it to 47 years.