The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-08-24

elected member of the county board Of
commissioners and served in that capa-
city for two years. In 1894 he was
elected clerk Of the Superior court and
his record in that office was such that
again i'm 1893 he was reelected. He is
a Democrat Of the pureSt type and al
ways does all in his power to forward
the interest of the party. He is mem
Der of the Methodist church and thor
ough representative citizen.
PHILIP W. BRAY-MERCHANT.
The most prominent merchant of Cur
rituck county is beyond the question of
a doubt the gentleman whose name cap
tons this article, and who does thirty
ing business at Sligo a post office located
half way between Currituck court house
and Snowden on the Norfolk and South
ern.
Mr. Bray was born in the county on
October the s, 1853. After receiving an
elementary education by attendance at
the schools of the county he began the
battle of life as a clerk in the mercan-
tile establishment Of Bell and Morgan
at Shawboro In 1884 he entered the
grocery business at Norfolk with L. ii.
Morgan, where he remained one year
and then returned to the county and
entered into agricultural pursuits In
1891 the present business at Sligo was
founded where he deals in general mer-
chandise and does large and substan-
tial business.
WM. III. BRAY-RE REGISTER OF
DEEDS.
The road to substantial success lies
along no royal highway. Permanent and
well founded pre-eminence and honorable
and merted estimation with ones fellow
citizen, is only achieved by mOse inSpir-
ed with high aspirations based upon inn
mutible Justice unfaltering integrity and
a stern and resolute adherence, under all
circumstances and on every occasion to
law and duty, and such has been the
character of one of the sons of the old
North State who now dwells on the same
plantation where his fore fathers of six
generations have spent their noble lives.
Wm. H. Bray, the subject of this sketch
and the present register of deeds for
Currituck county, was born four miles
from the court house of the county on
the Doth day of June, 1850. His educa-
ton was received ut public and private
schools of the county and subsequently
-
which institution he attended for two
and a half years when at the expiration
of that period he returned to his fathers
farm, and on which plantation he still
continues to live, his father having died
in the spring of 1870 and in the fall of
which year our subject was married to
Miss Almeda Dozier and three children
were added to the happy home before the
decease of his loving wife.
Mr.. Bray has since been married to
Miss Emma Robertson and now enjoys
the comforts of happy home and has
three children by his second wife.
In politics he is a Democrat and as
such has served the county as commits
sioner from 1872 to 1876, and then four
years as register of deeds, then four
years as sheriff which was Followed by
four more as treasurer and then from
1886 to 1892 was commissioner and up
to the time of his election to his present
office in 1896 he was a member of the
finance committee of the county. He is
making an envible record as register
and it is by his trustworthyness and
business sagacity that has Won for HIM
the everlasting friendship of the people
of that entire section.
HON. A. M. SIMMONS ATTORNEY.
The only representative of the law pro-
fesSion Mt Currtuck court house is Hon.
A. NJ. Simmons who was born in the
county in 1864 near the county seat. He
subsequently removed from the county
and attended the schools of Fairfield in
Hyde county.
After graduating from the University
of North Crolina in 1887 he was princi-
pal of the Hartford Academy for one
year.
The next two years of his life were
spent by attendance at the University of
North Carolina. in the law department
under the tutorship of DR.. Manning, and
in 1890 he WIS admitted to the bar. He
has for the past two years been practic-
ing his profession at Currituck court
house. He is a Democrat and a MEM
her of the Methodist church, and an
able exponent of that grand and noble
profession, law; with a prospect before
him of exceeding brightness. His
friends are legion and are only limited
by the number of his acquaintances
w. b. FULFORD POSTMASTER.
Currituck county has mOng her citi-
Zens men of the highest integrity and
trustwomhness and among that list we
find the gentleman whose name captions
this article and who so ably serves rs
postmaster at Currituck court house. He
is native North Carolinian and was
born in Currituck county in 1860. After
receiving his education by attendance at
the public schools of the county he be-
came engaged in farming
On Jan. 81, 1899, he was appointed by
the postal department as postmaster at
Currituck court house, and in that posi-
ton he still continues giving entire sat
isfaction, and is making many warm and
lasting friends who wish him a long,
prosperous and happy life in Currtuck
county.
Mr.. Fulford is also the proprietor of
the hotel of the place called the Gram
berry house where you can get good ac-
cOmmOdationS and also n team to so To