October 2008 • Tennessee Pryors

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Martha, Daughter of Samuel N. Pryor

Posted on October 24, 2008 by Vanessa Wood

I’ve had emails asking for more information of Martha Adelaide Pryor and how she connects to Samuel N. Pryor. I’m posting some links to documents Martha’s reseacher uncovered that indicate she was a Pryor.

Death record of her son Daniel Pryor Hill
(As of 2019 link no longer available)

Grave Marker for Daniel P. Hill
https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=hill&GSfn=daniel&GSmn=pryor&GSbyrel=in&GSdyrel=in&GSob=n&GRid=22516917&

Mississippi Census Extracts (Tippah Co.)
https://tennesseepryors.com/pryor-website/state-records/mississippi/

Daniel P. Hill is included in an Ancestry Family with additional information
https://trees.ancestry.com/pt/person.aspx?tid=1090164&pid=-1963822730

Category: Tennessee Pryors

Samuel N. Pryor of the Marion County Line

Posted on October 18, 2008 by Vanessa Wood

This week I heard from a researcher who is trying to find more information on Samuel N. Pryor. She believes she has uncovered the identity of Samuel’s daughter.

Samuel N. Pryor is believed to be a son of Matthew J. Pryor of Marion Co., TN. Samuel was born about 1793 in Granville Co., NC. He was granted land in Marion County in 1824. In 1830 he was counted on the census in McNairy Co. He bought a lot in Purdy, McNairy County in 1831 and then sold it in 1833.

S. N. Pryor was counted on the 1840 Census in Tippah Co., MS. At that time he had a contemporary aged female in the home, believed to be his wife Delana Street, and a younger female who was between the age of 5 years and 10 years.

The researcher has found that Martha Adelaide, the wife of Thomas Jefferson Hill, was formerly a Pryor and suspects that she was Samuel’s daughter. Martha was born in 1833 in Tennessee and appears on the 1850 and 1860 Census in Tippah County, living with her husband. Their first born son was named Samuel. It should also be noted that a family with the surname “Hill” was recorded near Samuel Pryor on the 1840 Census.

The Tippah Co. genealogy site notes that Samuel served as a tax assessor and collector for the county.

If anyone has further information on Samuel or Martha, please comment on this entry. Thanks!

Category: Genealogy, Mississippi Pryors, Tennessee Pryors | Tags: marion county, mississippi, Tennessee, tippah

William Pryor of Stewart County, TN – Identified As One of “Austin’s Old 300”

Posted on October 12, 2008 by Vanessa Wood

Good news for Pryor researchers. Another TN Pryor line has been identified!

William Pryor who married Betsy Trammell has been long acknowledged as one of Austin’s Old 300, one of the group of settlers who migrated to Texas at the end of the 1820’s and two decades before the Mexican War. Information from researcher Betty Vaughn now connects the dots with documents to confirm that William is the same man who settled in Stewart County, TN in 1805.

While William has been identified there’s still the need to complete the family connections. William and his family left Tennessee for the Mississippi Territory (Clarke Co., AL) and then moved on to Texas. A James Pryor (probably William’s brother) and his wife Mary stayed in Stewart County. They and their kin were counted in subsequent years in both Stewart County and in Trigg Co., KY.