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To pick up on the idea that maybe your grandfather had a point to his stories (which would indeed differentiate him from most grandfathers), let's play along and assume that he went to see an uncle in Nebraska or at least the west.
Then let's say, for the sake of argument, that John J. Deuel is somehow a son of Henry7 (Jeremiah6). Could there be "uncles" that your grandfather could have been visiting in Nebraska, or at least the west?
Henry7(Jeremiah6), according to the ancestral file, had three male children, all born in Saratoga: George W.8, b. 1835; Isaac8, b. 1838; Harry, b. 1860.
The ancestral file doesn't have anything more, but if you look at IGI there is the following:
Marriage: George Wilbur Deuel, m. Edith Deuel in Omaha, Douglas Co., Nebraska ca. 1858
Marriage: Isaac Newton Deuel, m. Sarah Jane Wadsworth in Saratoga, ca. 1867
Marriage: Isaac Newton Deuel, m. Sophia Johana Bobzien in Chicago, IL, 27 May, 1875
Birth: George Wilbur Deuel, to Isaac Newton Deuel & Sophia Johana Bobzien, in Chicago, 26 May 1877
So if you at birth/marriage dates, there's nothing really out of line. And if you look at lines, you'll have to forgive my obsessions with lines and name repetition, but when you put the name "Wilbur" in anywhere, for a guy looking from my background in Little Compton, it's like waving the queen of diamonds in front of the guy from "The Manchurian Candidate," that's what hooked me in the first place.
So, just playing the hunch that John J. is the son of Henry7 (Jeremiah6), and plugging him in just for the sake of argument, what do the (probable) lines look like?
Saratoga/Chicago: George Wilbur9, Isaac8, Henry7
Saratoga/Omaha: George Wilbur8, Henry7
???/Passaic: George9 (do you know his middle name or initial?), John J. 8, Henry7 (i.e. your grandfather's brother)
Anyway, the general idea is that if John J. won't talk, maybe his (half)brothers and brother can tell us something. Harry8 (Henry7) b. 1860 has no tie to the Harry Porter Deuel who was the founder of Deuel County in Nebraska at first glance, the dates don't match at all and I can't come up with anything else on this Harry8 right now, but he might tie in somwhere too someday, somehow. Maybe these Deuel "cornhuskers" in Nebraska can lend us an "ear" as we "stalk" the elusive John J.
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