LDS Film # 968928 Jackson County Marriage Register Simeon Whitson age 30 to Abie Sullivan age 19. 18 Sep 1882. His parents are listed as BB Whitson and Delilah Gaston. I read this film and read "Abie". Maybe I read it wrong. But maybe the Illinois marriage index is incorrect. I don't know. Are Eulila and Delilah Gaston the same person?? The Belle Henson who married Merit Way is Frances Belle Henson, daughter of Nicholas Darnall Henson and Francis C. Evans. In 1893 when Belle's grandmother Rachel Henson died, she is listed in the estate papers as Belle Ford, so she must have had second marriage. The marriage of BB Whitson to Eulila/Delilah Gaston must have been prior to 1843, the first record of marriages in Jackson County due to the courthouse fire. Or they were married in another county. Jackson County 1850 Census, from booklet by John W.D. Wright: #174 Section 6, Grand Tower Benjamin B. Whitson 33 IL Eulila 31 IL Joseph D. 12 IL Lorena 8 IL Amanda C. 5 IL Julia Ann 3 IL James G. Gaston 22 IL (her brother?)