Fourth Generation

8. Jeremiah ^ CHERRY^43,44 was born on 1 Apr 1766 at Virginia. He appeared in the census in 1790 at Halifax District, Martin County, North Carolina. 1-1-1-0-1 (1 male 16 or older, head of household, 1 male under 16, white female, head of family, other white females, all other free persons)

He appeared in the census in 1800 at Martin County, North Carolina. p. 388 40010-1112003 He died on 29 Jan 1821 at Columbia, Maury County, Tennessee. He was buried in Greenwood Cemetery, Columbia, Maury County, Tennessee.⁴⁵ Opened early tavern in Columbia in 1808; Constable during War of 1812.

It is probable that the father of John C Cherry was Jeremiah Cherry, who was listed in the 1820 Census of Maury Co, Tn as 20012/01001. This would indicate he was over 45 and his wife over 45. If this census was accurate, then John C would be one of the children at 10-16, and would place a sister at about the same age.

The same 1820 Census lists a Cherry on p. 49 and a Jerey Cherry on p. 49 both being in Maury County.There was also a Jeremiah Cherry in Columbia, Maury Co., in 1810 as operator of an inn. This would indicate that he was at least 21 in 1810, which would place his birthdate between 1780 and 1790. There was the administration of an estate in Maury Co, in 1821 for a Jeremiah Cherry. There was no will. A check with the Probate Clerk at Columbia, Tn developed no will having been filed, but the papers do indicate some of the purchasers of the estate assets, John C Cherry, however, was not one of them.

Jeremiah Cherry is named as one of the executors of the will of William Price in 16 Jan 1800, putting Jeremiah Cherry in Martin County, NC before and after 1800, implying that most if not all of the children were born in Martin County, North Carolina.

Jeremiah Cherry was named in his father's will, dated 23 Feb 1811, proven Dec 1814 in Martin Co, NC, but he had already gone to Maury County, TN. Although Jeremiah was barely mentioned in the will.: "...all the residue of my estate be sold and the money so raised be equally divided between my six children to wit: Mary, Ruth, Joshua, Jeremiah, Job and Abner Cherry, ..." This was the only passage in the will where Jeremiah was mentioned. Most of Job's other children got land and various properties. A Roderick Cherry, of Martin County, whose daughter Elizabeth married Thomas Howell 3 Jan 1833 (Pitt Marriage Notice, NC Star, New Bern, NC, Jan. 18, 1833. Groom of Martin Co., NC; bride dau. of Roderick Cherry, Esq.) might be another brother of Jeremiah etc who died previous to the will of Job Cherry.


Possible additional sons of Jeremiah, based on Land Records of Columbus and Pontotoc MS in the early 1840s and late 1830s include Joel B., James M, (also listed in Land Records for Tuscaloosa Land Office, Alabama in 1835,). Willis W is also listed in the marriage records of Monroe Co, AL. and is known to have settled in Saltillo, the same as John C. Cherry). the John W. Cherry who purchased land in Columbus land Office in early 1840s could be a cousin of John C. and possibly son of Jeremiah's brother Joshua who also went to Alabama and died there in 1840. A Joseph B. Cherry, also purchased land at Pontotoc in 1838, and a Thomas Cherry (on land records at Tuscaloosa, AL in Aug. 1825) purchased land at the Columbus land office on Feb. 27, 1841 (the same date as John C. Cherry). Willis W. Cherry is listed along with others as Patentee on over 75 separate tracts of land between 1838 and 1840. Jeremiah ^ CHERRY and Mary "Polly" PRICE^ were married on 9 Dec 1782.

9. Mary "Polly" PRICE^ was born on 12 Jan 1768. She died on 15 May 1832 at Columbia, Maury County, Tennessee. She was buried in Greenwood Cemetery, Columbia, Maury County, Tennessee. Children were:

	i.	Jeremiah CHERRY Jr? was born on 27 Oct 1797 at Williamston, Martin County, North Carolina. He died on 22 Oct 1856 at Columbia, Maury County, Tennessee. He was buried in Greenwood Cemetery, Columbia, Maury County, Tennessee. Early Postmaster of Columbia, Maury Co, Tn
	ii.	Kenneth CHERRY was born in 1798 at Virginia. He died on 15 May 1832 at Columbia, Maury County, Tennessee. He was buried in Greenwood Cemetery, Columbia, Maury County, Tennessee. Obituraries from Early Tennessee Newspapers, 1794-1851, states "A Kenneth Cherry died in Maury County. His age or date of death is not given, but it was published in the Nashville Banner and Nashville Daily Advertiser Jan 10, 1829
	iii.	Dempsey CHERRY was born on 1 Apr 1802 at Virginia. He died on 29 Apr 1849 at Columbia, Maury County, Tennessee. He was buried in Greenwood Cemetery, Columbia, Maury County, Tennessee. 47-00-28. "He professed faith in Christ, 7 April 1838,continued with the Baptist exhorting services...until his death" Dempsey Cherry is an almost unique name in all the Cherry branches, according to John H. Cherry. But probably all were born in Norfolk County, Virginia. Dempsey Cherry is listed in 1752 on the Norfolk County Tax List, and again in 1753, 1754, 1757, 1759, 1766, 1767, 1770 and 1771, possibly in Portsmouth Parish. The Dempsey Cherry listed in the 1752 Tax List must have been an adult and so, was probably born about 1730. Another Dempsey Cherry is listed on the Norfolk County Tax List at Deep Creek Township in 1814, 1819, and 1820. Dempsey Cherry is also listed in the 1820 Norfolk County, VA Census. In 1825 a Dempsey Cherry Jr, listed in the same place. By 1826, one was listed in Portsmouth or Portsmouth Parish, Virginia. This Dempsey Cherry seems to disappear from Norfolk County Tax lists after 1825, and may be the one who died in Maury County, Tennessee. Of course the fact that he was referred to as Junior could only mean that there was an older Dempsey Cherry, his father or another in the same neighborhood in 1825. On 21 April 1810, a Dempsey Cherry married Frances richardson in Norfolk County, Virginia, and on 9 July 1814, a Dempsey Cherry, possibly the same one, married Rosanna Green in Norfolk County, Viriginia.
	iv.	William Clark CHERRY was born on 26 Dec 1803 at Martin County, North Carolina. He died on 2 Dec 1886 at Columbia, Maury County, Tennessee.
	v.	Gen. Willis Whitaker CHERRY46 was born in 1804 at Orangeburg District, South Carolina. He died in 1840 at Potontoc County, Mississippi. Willis W. Cherry bought a great deal of land in 1841, some in conjunction with John L. Winston, mostly Jesse W. Garth, and in 1842 with Dorn Patton, Thomas Nelson Columbus Land Office, in 1843, Willis W. Cherry was granted land in Lee (Itawamba) County, MS
4	vi.	John C. ^ CHERRY.
	vii.	Rosanna CHERRY was born in 1806 at Martin County, North Carolina. She died after 1860.
	viii.	James M. CHERRY appeared in the census in 1830 at Tuscaloosa County, Alabama. A Thomas Cherry is in the same census, possibly father or brother. He appeared in the census in 1850 at Southern District, Tuscaloosa County, Alabama. p. 349 A James M. Cherry shows up buying land in Columbus Land Office (Lee County) in the early 1840s along about the same time as John C. Cherry and Willis W. Cherry. (also in early land records of Tuscaloosa Land Office in Alabama. In Marriages of Mississippi 1829-1900, p. 41 a J.M. Cherry is shown as married to Maggie BELL 10/12/1898, James B. Cherry is shown marrying Lydia A. CHAMBERS on 23/02/1854
	ix.	Glisson CHERRY. A Glisson Cherry shows up in Columbus Land Office Records in the early 1840s in Mississippi, shortly after John C., Willis W. andJames M. Cherry purchased land in the same area.
	x.	Joel B. CHERRY. As purchaser and assignee (for John Rayburn) in several land records, Columbus and Pontotoc Land Offices Mississippion Aug 7. 1838. On August 9, 1838, he purchased 13 separate tracts of land consisting of 160.* acres each at the Pontotoc Land Office.