...sometimes the enumerator's handwriting and/or spelling is so bad - that you cannot attempt to find names on census index...
...sometimes families are moving when census is taken...
...sometimes the enumerators cannot make their way to the family's location...due to flooding, etc...
...sometimes the transcribers totally get the names wrong...
...it will drive you nuts...
...i have looked at every name in every household on census images for county where my family lived - trying to find them...very tedious - but sometimes i did get a hit...
...i did find some of john solomon's family on the 1860 & 1870 census...plus other info...will send to you direct...