Of Pope and Hardin Co., IL -Madison (Martin Madison) SMOCK, b. 1836 AR, m. Lavinia HOLLOMAN -Nancy SMOCK/HUGHES, b. 31 Jan 1819, m. John DAVIS -Thomas SMOCK, b. 29 May 1821 IL, m1. Unk, m2. Mary SIMMONS I have no parents for the above three. Given that there was one large SMOCK family in Southern IL in 1810 (USC 1810 Randolph Co., IL Terr.) and the family descendants stayed in the area well after 1900, it is reasonable to assume that all subsequent SMOCK families were derived from the initial settlers, C. and Sarah (?) SMOCK. Of the six male children in 1810 only three are known, Hiram (1800 KY), Barney (1808) and Alfred (1810). There were five female children of whom the two youngest, Matilda and Nelly are known. This leaves three males and three females unknown. By the USC 1820 Pope Co., IL C. SMOCK had died, and Sarah , Widow SMOCK, was head of household. The males in her household had grown to ten while the females were reduced to two. Among the males there were two born after the 1810 census, while the remainder, eight, included Hiram, Barney and Alfred, were old enough to be in the 1810 census. Of these, five were unknown and two were additions to the previous census. The addition of older household members suggests that they were new husbands of SMOCK women or they were boarders and not SMOCK related. One insight maybe the IL State Census of 1818 in which Widow SMOCK had a family of nine including herself. Of the eight household members one was an adult and seven minors (<16). Since Hiram was b. 1800 he would be 18 and the adult. Leaving seven minors of whom we can identify four-Barney, Alfred, Matilda, and Nelly. This leaves three unknown household members. Chances are that these were males considering the distribution of the 1810 census. With three unknown SMOCK males in 1818 the identity of the parents of the original unplaced SMOCKs-Madison, Nancy and Thomas-may well rest with these unknown males. Looking for SMOCK families in the 1830 time frame, aside from Sarah in Pope Co., IL, there were in AR Alfred (single), Casper (married), and Barret (married). Subsequent census in IL show that Barney SMOCK had children born in AR which indicated that Barret was in fact Barney/Barent who returned to IL by 1840. Alfred returned to IL to marry in 1832. There is no further info on Casper. Best regards, Hugh