This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: CARLOCK, CEARLOCK, GOODNIGHT, LANDERS, LANDIS, TRUMAN Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/zdH.2ACEB/43.151 Message Board Post: This is in reply to Joann WITT's ([email protected]) Oct. 30, 1999, posting to the CARLOCK Board titled "Carlocks in IL". This is also my line. My maiden name was CEARLOCK. George W. CARLOCK's (ca. 1779 - ca. 1862) descendants used both the spellings "Carlock" and "Cearlock" (pronounced like "Carelock"). I have not yet positively identified George's father, but all indications are that George is somehow descended from David's son Frederick who lived in Mecklenburg Co., NC, probably as a grandson. Two possible fathers for George are the David CARLOCK who was in both Mecklenburg Co., NC, and Warren Co., KY, and the Henry CARLOCK who was in Rutherford Co., NC. I do not yet have a great deal of information about either of these individuals. David lived near George in Kentucky, as also did the family of John CARLOCK (s/o Lemuel, Hanchrist, David). John's son William, b. 1814, Warren Co., KY, also migrated to the Ramsey, Fayette Co., IL, area. Some descendants of John's son George Washington CARLOCK (1812 - 1862) also used the spelling "Cearlock". Descendants of this second line of CEARLOCKs can be found in the area near Marlow, OK. Henry can be found in Rutherford Co., NC, records from 1782 to 1800. Mecklenburg Co., NC, 1787 court records show that Henry was awarded money for the orphans of Christopher LANDIS. Christopher LANDIS was the grandfather of George's wife Rachel LANDERS. Christopher was also a direct ancestor of President Harry S. TRUMAN, making all of George's descendants distant cousins to Harry TRUMAN. For further discussion about George's ancestry, see the archives of the RootsWeb CEARLOCK list (http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/). For further information about Harry TRUMAN's ancestry, see the archives of the RootsWeb GOODNIGHT list.