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Now, I'm not an expert but...
1) the relationship is listed as Brother S or Step Brother
clue 1
2) other steps are listed thus this is the head of household's second marriage
clue 2
3) census takers in general were the cream of the crop so to speak, so if they took the time to write out brother S, then they likely didn't mean son in any way shape or form
3) Outside Evidence:
Even today people have 'accidents' way late in life
- perhaps even the mother or father of the second wife remarried and that's how they got their oops.
My Grandmother Dorothy was married to Nathaniel. Nathaniels mother died and Nathaniel's dad remarried Dorothy's YOUNGER sister. Dorothy herself got married at 15. So her sister, also 15 at that point, probably married a 40-50 year old man seeing as he already had 6 other kids (at least living; miscarriages and stillbirths or even died within a year were common and wouldn't be picked up by a census.) Technically in the mother/father remarried situation, I think that it would be Step Brother once removed. Then you can ask yourself, did the census worker understand such things? Heck I don't totally get all the interworkings of relationships. And, was the census worker going to take the time and the space on his/her form to write out "Brother S, once removed?" Probably not.
There's even the biblical story of Abraham and Elizabeth, she got pg after she'd been in menopause for years.
If it were me, I'd conclude that it was indeed a Step Brother (or SB1R, if you want to go there) not a Step Son or Son.
Hope that helps.
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