Welcome:
 
 After years of hitting road
 block after road block from
 this point back, I  decided
 the best thing for me to do
 was to map every Houk I
 could find starting in
 Missouri. I think we are all
 in agreement that the main
bulk of the Houk family starts
with George Houk. 

 Below I have the 1830 and
 the 1840 census records.
 they show george in Cooper
 County in 1830 then in 
 willow Fork Township 
 (Moniteau Co) in 1840.
 In 1850 George is back in 
 Cooper Co. Could it be he
 never really left. did a
 census taker catch him at
 the home of a son? It does
 not matter other then his
 children started out here.
 !n 1850 in Moniteau Co
 his son Andrew was 26 was 
 living with wife Mary and 
 1 year old son John. His 
 Older son Squire age 29 was
 also living with 1st wife Susan 
 son William 7 and James 6m.

 As a note of interest Squire
 was in the census just above
 Mariah Elliott and her family,
 She would become the first
 wife of  his brother William.