Hi again, Still doing a look-up in the "KIDDER book," I came across this man. See below. It says he had moved to Nebraska, possibly around 1850, and that he serviced in the 1st Nebraska Infantry. And it says he died in service. Then it says he died in Nebraska in 1864. This leads me to a question. I've read in this book, and found out during my KIDDER research that some men or families had left the New England and New York area and moved to the Mid-West, in States like Kansas and Nebraska. And, then they serviced from those States. I'm curious how often that happened ! Betty (near Lowell, MA) FYI: I just went to find out when Nebraska became a State, and found this: On May 30, 1854, the Kansas-Nebraska Act created the Kansas Territory and the Nebraska Territory, divided by the Parallel 40° North. The territorial capital of Nebraska was Omaha. In the 1860s, the first great wave of homesteaders poured into Nebraska to claim free land granted by the federal government. Many of the first farm settlers built their homes out of sod because they found so few trees on the grassy land. Nebraska became the 37th state in 1867, shortly after the American Civil War. At that time, the capital was moved from Omaha to Lancaster, later renamed Lincoln after the recently assassinated President of the United States Abraham Lincoln. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nebraska 651 DANIEL ERSKINE KIDDER (Daniel Heath, Benjamin, John, Benjamin, John, James), born at Bristol, N. H., 15 June 1818; died in Nebraska, 17 June 1864. He married first, at Lowell, Mass., 6 Apr. 1843, JANE STETSON BONNEY of that city, born at Turner, Androscoggin Co., Me., 15 Mar. 1821 died in Missouri in 1857, daughter of Isaac and Abigail (Stetson) Bonney; and secondly, in Nebraska in 1857, NANCY E. ELLAS. Daniel Erskine Kidder resided at Lowell and later in Nebraska. He served in Company A, 1st Nebraska Infantry during the Civil War, and is said to have died in service. Child by first wife: 1076 i. ALBERT EDWARD, b. 12 Jan. 1844. Children by second wife: ii. THOMAS C., b. in 1858. iii. AMANDA, b. in 1860.