My grgrfa: JohnT. Houze b. Ga. son of John Houze b. 1799 and Sarah Sheffield b, Ga. m. 1840 Morgan Co. Ga.; he died Tx. Navarro Co. Can't find anything else and that info on parents came by way of a geneology friend thru mail/ BUT there are lots of Houze's outside Springfield MISSOURI according to my mother's best friend who recently died and also I found a Rebecca Houze in home of John Donaldson with a 12 yr. old James Miller in same home in the 1850 Cherokee Co. Ga. census. frances