Stop the search, my mystery has finally been solved after all the waisted years of searching the 1870 census. Connie on the TXCOOKE email list found him without much effort! :) George S. Lock is living right next door to his parents George F. Lock in the 1870 Crawford County Arkansas census, but the kicker is the census taker listed him as George Simon, um? he forgot to add that he was a LOCK ! lol. I have looked at that record a ton of times and missed it every time, Connie saw it and let me know. THANKS Connie! But now this new info raises new questions for me, we always knew him as George Sims Lock, the census listed him as George Simon, makes me wonder if we had his middle name wrong all this time too ;) No known record to prove either middle name is correct that I am aware of. Thanks everyone who may have started looking for me , but he has been found by Connie. Donald Locke