In a message dated 98-06-14 00:37:03 EDT, randis@madison.tdsnet.com writes: > If you have need > for info from other counties such as Montgomery, Hamilton, Clermont, > Brown, Highland, Warren, Green, Clinton, Fayette, let me know and we'll > see what we can find at the Haynor Center. Dick, I am most interested in the Clinton County Kigers if you should turn up anything on them. Most notably I am interested in Benjamin and Samuel. There is definitely more than one Benjamin Kiger. My suspicion is that the older Benjamin is the father of Oregon Trail Pioneer William Wiekle Kiger and I would like to be able to prove it or disprove it. If he is he would have been born about 1770-1780 in Virginia most likely and moved to Gallia County, Ohio and then to Jackson County (we know that for sure) and presumably on to Clinton with his wife Catharine. A Samuel was in Clinton County on the 1830 census, in Chester Twp. page 237, and Benjamin is still back in Jackson County, in Washington Twp. on page 124. By 1840 Samuel is still in Clinton Co. in Chester Twp. on page 321, and Benjamin (presumably the same one from Jackson Co.) has moved to Clinton County and is in Richland Twp. on page 347. By 1850 the Kiger population in Clinton Co. has blossomed to 5 households: Benjamin (Keger) in Chester Twp. on page 289, with a second Benjamin spelled Kiger on the same page in the same twp. Mary J. Kiger is in Wilmington on page 347, Benjamin C. is in Wayne Twp. on page 402, and Ann E. is also in Wayne Twp. on page 403. I would love to know more about any or all of them. Joan