References to CARLOCKs in "The Virginia Germans", by Klaus WUST, 1969: Page 102 - 103: "The three forks of the Holston, the Clinch, and the Powell all received a fair number of Germans. ... The first landholders on the Middle Fork, during 1774-86, were Hunchrist and Conrad Carlock, Peter Harman, George Spangler, and Henry Kounts. ... Many of the Wythe and Holston families spread into Scott, Lee, Wise, Dickinson, Buchanan, and Russell counties. Susong, Blabough, Engle, Fleenor, Hinkle, Kaiser, Kinder, Snider, Spangler, Hunsaker, Kinser, Rosenbaum, Brunk, Grabill, Hartsock, Rivercomb, Henderlite, Wassum, Copenhaver, Greever, and Carlock are names which all have a familiar ring in these westernmost counties of Virginia. When individuals and families moved on into the narrow valleys, they became dispersed and neither German churches nor schools emerged. Assimilation was an absolute necessity for them long before the communities in Wythe and Smyth gave up their cherished language and traditions."