WILLIAM HENRY SMITH- CHILDHOOD

OK, here it goes. The first time William shows up on a census is in 1880. Not only does he show up, but he shows up TWICE, on two different census's. This is where it starts to get sticky. The second record we will discuss could be a different William H. Smith, but I'm inclined to believe that it's the same person. In June of 1880, William is shown on a census in Bucks County, Pennsylvania with Thomas (40) and Effie Harkins (the census says 28, but according to my calculations with her birth date, she would only be 25 right?), and his brother, Clarence Smith. The census says William is 8 at the time and lists him as a stepson to Harkins. Clarence is listed as a female, and a step daughter. So maybe he really is a she?? They were all living with a man named William Baker (age 60). The second census (MONTH??) a William H. Smith shows up in Frederick County, Virginia, which is less than 200 miles from Bucks County. The Census shows a William H. Smith (33) as Head, Louisa J Smith (28) as wife, and William H. Smith (7) as a son along with a couple of other children. William's son, Ernest, wrote that his father (William) told him that he was bound out on a farm in Virginia, near Richmond. (Frederick County is about 100 miles away from Richmond). So maybe this was the time he was bound out, but Ernest also says that he talked about Baron Hill farm and people named Oberly, so maybe not. Maybe the man is Effie's brother, but we do not have any record of a William as a brother to Effie. The other sticky thing is that there is a baptismal record (I'm not sure where it came from??), but it has a William Henry Smith born in December of 1872, with a William and Annie Smith as the parents. Anni Smith is the name of Effie's sister (on the 1870 census and a family group record). NOW, this probably is not the same person, but I'm not discarding it as a possibility quite yet. AND I have a paper that I think grandpa wrote about this family that states that on Clarence's wedding certificate, he lists his father as William Smith. It just seems like all these things are more than just coincidences. The 1890 census' were all burned in a fire, which is really too bad, because that would be another great piece to our puzzle, but the next census record we have of him is in 1900. By this time he is married to Florence Anna Davies.