Beeks line: William Lock 1779-sometime later

I'm so confused!  William Lock is an ancestor in the Beeks line.  But the name was a common one in Kentucky, where we can first place him, and it looks to me like various trees have conflated two or possibly three men named William Lock into one.  So this is a tentative post, subject to change at any moment based on potential new findings.

Right now, it appears that William Lock was the son of Benjamin and Sarah Demarest (Demaree) Slot, and was born probably about 1779.  Three different Williams appear to have been born in 1779, each in Virginia, and that is where the confusion seems to start, so I'm not sure about the date.  Based on what is known about Benjamin's life, it is quite possible that somewhere in Virginia, possibly Frederick County, is a good potential birth site.  

You may be wondering why William's name was Lock and Benjamin, his father, was a Slot or Slodt.  This is a family with Dutch origins going back to early New Amsterdam days.  But by sometime in the 1790s, William had begun using Lock as his name, which was the English translation for Slot.  We know the family was in Kentucky prior to 1796, when Benjamin seems to last be noted in the records, so he would have heard the stories of the early settlement of Mercer County, which had close ties to Daniel Boone and James Harrod.  The Dutch families seem to have moved on from Mercer and Madison counties to Shelby County, Kentucky beginning about 1790.  

William Lock married Elizabeth Teague or Tague on Christmas Day, 1797 in Shelby County.  The Tague name is also of Dutch origin but her parentage is somewhat uncertain.  I show her father to be "John William" Teague and Elizabeth, last name unknown, but I have no documentation for that.  William and Elizabeth possibly had five children, or possibly two.  There is a William Lock who married a Nancy Keith about 1805, also in Shelby County.  Were these two Williams the same man?  I tend to think probably not, but I could easily be persuaded otherwise.  If they were the same men, then Elizabeth likely died and William quickly remarried.  

The next records I can find for William have him in Switzerland County, Indiana in the 1820 census, in Craig township, Switzerland County.  He is in the 26 through 44 age group, which would fit the late 1770s birth date, and has 2 males under 10, 2 aged 10-15, 1 female under 10, and one female 16-25.  This is the picture of a family with a very young wife, or an older daughter, with the older mother missing.  This may or may not be be the same William Lock who is listed on a Switzerland County probate index as number or page 125, which includes deaths from 1823 to 1847.  Unfortunately, this William died in 1839 and left everything (including a four year old boy, Moses) to his brother Benjamin, so I think we are "close, but no cigar" to identifying the two Williams as one and the same.  They are very likely related, however.  And who was Moses?  He wasn't a son, so one wonders if this was an enslaved person, and if so, where was the rest of Moses's family?

I have seen death dates of our William as being in 1854, which isn't beyond the realm of possibility, but I've not found any records yet to back that up.  Obviously, more research is needed. 

One additional note:  At this time, I don't think our William is the William F Lock who fought in the Battle of the Thames in the War of 1812.  The William who is on those lists seems to have led an entirely different life. 

The line of descent is

William Lock-Elizabeth Teague

Sally Lock-the elusive Jeremiah Folsom

Leah Folsom-Darlington Aldridge

Harvey Aldridge-Margaret Catherine Dunham

Cleo Aldridge-Wilbur Beeks

Mary Beeks-Cleveland Harshbarger

Their desendants