Colonel William H. CHEEK, yesterday elected Master of the State Grange, was born in Warren county and is now forty-three years old.  He graduated at Randolph Macon College in Virginia in 1854, studied law under William EATON of Warrenton, and was admitted to practice in June, 1856.  He was elected County Attorney in August following, and held that position until elected to the legislature in 1860.  At the breaking out of the war he resigned his seat in the Legislature and raised a company for the First North Carolina Calvary.  He was promoted to the Colonelcy in 1863, and was in active service during the entire war.  He was wounded in 1864 and while on wounded leave married Miss Alice M. JONES of Warren county.   After the war he did not resume the practice of his profession, but turned his attention to farming.  He is now Chairman of the Inferior Court of Warren County — Observer

Source: Roanoke News, 13 February 1879, page 3. Available online at DigitalNC.org.