This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Spring Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/2RB.2ACE/8335.2.1 Message Board Post: Thank you again, Barbara! In 1860 George was 6 years old and living in Richville with his mother who had remarried a John Wells. He was listed as George A. Wells on that census. Obviously they didn't bother to tell the census enumerator that he was a Spring. I'm guessing he's still with this family in 1870 and that's possibly why you couldn't find him.