This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: WHITSON Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/QJH.2ACIB/300 Message Board Post: I am trying to find information on this Byars who married a Whitson in Jackson County, Illinois in 1863. They had three children but by 1870 census the wife is married to someone else and has the children with her. I'm trying to find out if he died or if there was a divorce. I have heard information both ways. Anybody out there know anything?