On Joan Young's advice, I consulted the 1860 Census schedule for Bethania, Forsyth Co., N.C., p. 185 (that's the handwritten page number, I find, not the printed one), and found two Lewis Kigers. Lewis Kiger, Sr., is listed as a farmer, born in N.C., aged 54, living with Paulina, age 37; Franklin, age 17; Julia, age 10; Alexander, age 8; and John W(?)., age 1. Just below this entry is one for Lewis Kiger, Jr., a day laborer, aged 28; Mary, age 24; Jephthah, age 1 [this one took a while to puzzle out, but I'm sure it's right--in Hebrew it means "He [God] opened [the womb for a first born"]; and John Kiger, age 25, a wagoner. On her Geiger/Kiger Family Home Page, Faye Moran lists a 2nd-generation "Lewis Geiger (b. 1808) m. Paulina/Polina (1824-1893?) (could be his second wife?)." This looks like the Lewis, Sr., and Paulina listed in the 1860 Census. If she is indeed his second wife, then this would make Lewis, Jr., and John good candidates to be two sons of his by a previous wife. Thus this Lewis Kiger, Jr., seems likely to be both my 2g-grandfather (LK1) of my previous post and also LK3, the veteran of Gettysburg; my first hypothesis, that LK2 (son of Simon Kiger and Polly Moser) was my 2g-grandfather, now seems to have been wrong. Joan has also suggested that I try to get the Civil War record of Lewis Kiger from the NARA and his pension records from the N.C. State Archives, which I will do. What else? My guess is that I must check the 1870 Census to see if great-grandfather Nathaniel, age 9, is living with Lewis, Jr.; and I should look at the 1850 to see if Lewis, Jr., is living with Lewis, Sr., and the 1840 and maybe 1830 to see if Lewis, Sr., is living with a woman other than Paulina. Right? Mike Montgomery <michael@princeton.edu>