Delilah Hahn--No More Confusion

I believe I have finally figured out the confusion with Delilah (Hahn) Thompson and just exactly where she fits into her family. Here’s the problem:
I have notes made from what appears to be Hahn Bible records passed on to me by Marcelle (Hahn) Klein. They have been very accurate; however the birth information on Samuel Hahn’s five children by his first wife lacks detail, and his first wife remains unnamed.
There are several children listed for Sam and his second wife, Nancy (Harless) Hahn. According to the Bible records, the first child, Delilah, was born before Sam and Nancy were married. This fact has always been puzzling.
Did Sam and Nancy have to wait for a preacher to come through the area to make the union official? I think not; Darke County, Ohio was quite populated in 1844. Finding a judge or a minister would have been no problem.
Did Delilah actually belong to Sam’s first wife? Again, I don’t think so for two reasons. First, she is clearly listed in the Bible record as Nancy’s child. Second, Delilah was a recurring name among the Harless families from Giles County, Virginia, where Nancy was born.
The first census to name all members of the household is the 1850 census. The Hahn children, born after 1840, were very young, and accuracy of ages among young children on the census was higher than when those children grew older and forgot or fudged on their ages. The information on the 1850 census matches the information in the Bible notes. It shows that Delilah’s age fits in among the first five children and that she is the same age, in years, as one of them. This would lead the researcher to believe that Delilah was a twin; however, such is not noted on the census like it usually is, and it is likely this information would be included in the trustworthy Bible notes, but it is not.
I conclude that not only Sam, but Nancy also, was married before. Sam had five children and then his wife must have died. Nancy had one child, Delilah, when she was nineteen years old, and then something happened to her husband. The two needed spouses and another parent for their children so they combined families. Delilah was three years old at the time.
Thus, Delilah, a Harless name, appears with Nancy in the Bible records, yet with an earlier birth date than the last child from Sam’s first marriage. And she appears on the census in between the children from the first marriage because of her age, bears the same age as one of those children, and yet is not labeled a twin.
This conclusion only opens up more questions. We’ve always wanted to know who Sam’s first wife was. Now we must ask who Nancy’s first husband was. This means descendants of Delilah (Hahn) Thompson have a biological line other than that of Samuel Hahn.