CHEEK BIOGRAPHIES, Henry County, Missouri
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CHEEK, Silas E. - b: 1854 Mason Co, IL
source: 1883 History of Henry Missouri , National Historical Co. - page: 507
residence: Clinton

Silas E. Cheek, dealer in real estate and loan agent, etc., was born in Mason 
County, Illinois, August 6, 1854. He was reared to manhood and was educated in 
his native county, spending his youthful days in the occupations of farming and 
clerking. In 1871 he emigrated to Merrick. County, Nebraska, where he was 
engaged in farming for one year, but after that time he returned east and settled 
in Clinton, Missouri. For two years he pursued a course of study under C. C. 
Dickinson, and then till 1875, was interested in clerking. Going west again to 
Tyler, Texas, he resided there one year, but then retraced his steps to Clinton, 
Missouri, embarking in the real estate and loan business. Mr. Cheek, was married 
November 9, 1881, to Miss Bettie P. Karsner, a native of Kentucky. Mr. C. is a 
member of the Masonic fraternity, and also of the Knights of Pythias. He is one of 
the directors of the Henry County Bank.

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CHEEK, Walter W. - b: 1862 Mason Co, IL
source: 1919 History of Henry Co MO, Uel W. Lamkin, Historical Publishing Co - 
page: 701
residence: Big Creek Twp

Walter W. Cheek, a prosperous farmer and stockman of Big Creek township, is a 
native of Illinois. He was born in Mason County, May 7, 1862, and is a son of 
Thomas and Mary (Newkirk) Cheek, the former a native of Kentucky and the latter 
of Maryland. The Cheek family came to Missouri and settled in Henry County in 
1883. The parents returned to Illinois and now reside at Havana, that State. They 
are the parents of the following children: George, Havana, Illinois; Thomas, 
deceased; Walter W., the subject of this sketch; Robert died at Urich, Missouri, in 
1901; John, lives at Manito, Illinois; Samuel, St. Louis, Missouri; Frank, Phelps 
County, Missouri; Fannie. died at the age of fourteen; James Madison lives in 
South Dakota; Marietta, resides with her parents at Havana, Illinois, and Delia, 
died in infancy. Walter W. Cheek came to Henry County with his parents in 1883, 
when he was about twenty-one years of age. He followed farming in the vicinity 
of Urich for a number of years and in 1890 purchased his present place in Big 
Creek township. This is a valuable farm of one hundred twenty acres, and is a 
part of the Fox estate, which was originally entered from the Government by 
William Fox, grandfather of Mrs. Cheek. He was a very early settler in this 
vicinity and entered a great deal of land from the Government in Henry County. At 
one time he owned about eight hundred acres. Walter W. Cheek was married to 
Miss Geneva A. Fox in 1888. She is a daughter of William C. Fox, a native of 
Kentucky, who was born in 1814. He married Emma Hornbarger, a native of 
Tennessee, born in 1826. William C. Fox died May 21, 1899, and his wife died in 
1897, and their remains are interred in the Carpenter Cemetery. Mr. Cheek is not 
only a successful farmer and stock raiser, but takes a keen interest in local 
affairs and is especially interested in the public school system and for seventeen 
years has served as director of his school district. He is a member of the Modern 
Woodmen of America and the Presbyterian Church and is one of the substantial 
citizens of Big Creek township. William C. Fox came to Howard County, Missouri, 
from Kentucky. He was a "forty-niner," crossed the country and was in the gold 
mining country of the Pacific Coast for twelve years. Upon his return via Cape 
Horn, he settled in Big Creek township, Henry County. He was a farmer and 
stockman on a large scale. W. C. Fox had two children: Mrs. Walter Cheek and 
James Edgar Fox, who died in 1908 in Kansas City, where he had moved from his 
farm in Big Creek township. William C. Fox was the son of James Fox, a Missouri 
pioneer who was one of the earliest settlers of Howard County and later of Henry 
County. W. C. Fox owned a fine farm of 320 acres and dealt extensively in live 
stock. 

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