. Sketches of Pitt County, a brief history of the county, 1704-1910; illustrations and maps . being T. R. Cherry &Company. This partnership lasted until 1888, when T. R. Cherry re-tired. A few years later he associated with him in the business J. J. G. Move, the firm then being J. B. Cherry and Company. Thispartnership continued to his death. In 1874 he was elected treasurer ofPitt county and held the office continuously by re-election until 1890,when he declined a reelection. But in 1898 he was again elected treas-urer and twice thereafter reelected, when he positively declined to bea c
. Sketches of Pitt County, a brief history of the county, 1704-1910; illustrations and maps . being T. R. Cherry &Company. This partnership lasted until 1888, when T. R. Cherry re-tired. A few years later he associated with him in the business J. J. G. Move, the firm then being J. B. Cherry and Company. Thispartnership continued to his death. In 1874 he was elected treasurer ofPitt county and held the office continuously by re-election until 1890,when he declined a reelection. But in 1898 he was again elected treas-urer and twice thereafter reelected, when he positively declined to bea candidate for reelection. Altogether he was clerk of the court eightyears and treasurer twenty-two years, with a record of efficiency andpopularity to be justly proud of. He was a member of the Methodist church, and a Pythian. He wastwice married. His first wife was Pattie Sherrod, a granddaughter ofJohn Simpson; his second was Ada Pearce, daughter of B. C. is one child by tlie first wife, INIrs. F. G. James, and one bythe second, J. B. Cherry, died March 13th, PITT COUNTY MEN AND WOMEN. 253 SMITH, JOHN EICHARD, born May 18th, 1868, 1 SMITH, ROBERT WILLIAMS, born November Uth, 1869 1 ^*^^The lives and work of these two brothers liave been so closelyblended that a sketch of one is almost a sketch of the other, therefore,it is best to give them together. From infancy to manhood and on,their career, their interests have been as one Their father, TheophilnsSmith, was a farmer, as was also their grandfatiier, William father was a Confederate soldier and died when they were quiteyoung. In 1878 they went to Oxford, North Carolina, where they re-mained two years at the asylum, then under Dr. Mills. Ill health oftheir mother called them home and they again took up the work ofher farm. She died in 1888 and the next year they went to Winter-ville, as clerks for A. G. Cox, who took more than a business interest inthem and their future. He aided and enco
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