This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/xhC.2ACE/594.1.1.2 Message Board Post: This man might have served in the War of 1812, but was too old (almost fifty) to have enlisted in the Mexican War, and certainly too old (almost seventy) to have been in the Civil War. Perhaps his grandchildren were soldiers.