Delilah Simmons was born to Lebbeus & Sarah Simmons in Fulton County, Illinois in 1861. Delilah is the half-sister of my Third Great Grandfather, Lebius Simmons, son of Lebbeus & Esther Simmons.
Delilah appears in the 1870 census with Elias & Melissa Graves and son Henry age 3. She is listed as Delilah Graves. This Petition of Letters for Guardianship was filed on February 26, 1878, when Delilah was 17. According to the Illinois Statewide Marriage Index database online, Delilah and Wilson were married the next day, February 27, 1878.
PETITION
of
<Elias Graves> in the matter of the estate of <Simmons> Deceased, for Letters of Guardianship.
TO THE HONORABLE
<S P Cummings>
Judge of the County Court of Fulton County.
THE PETITION of the undersigned < Elias Graves> respectfully represents that...
<Delilah Simmons> aged <17> years on the <July> A.D. 187<8>
and that said minor <is a> resident of this county; that <s>he ha<s> no father living, or other legal guardian residing in this State; that said minor X-and that said minor-X has no property and wishes this guardianship that she may have legal authority to marry Wilson Casper.
and that your petitioner <having raised said minor> desires <to> be appointed guardian of said minor <Feb 26> 187<8>
<Elias Graves>
STATE OF ILLINOIS, FULTON COUNTY,---SS
<Elias Graves> being duly sworn, deposes and says that the facts averred in the above petition are true, according to the best of _____ knowledge, information and belief.
SWORN TO AND SUBSCRIBED BEFORE ME, the undersigned, Clerk of the County Court of Fulton County, this <26th> day of <February> A.D. 187<8>
<JCWorley> Clerk.
<Elias Graves>
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