A recent message posted on the Rootsweb.com Pryor surname board gave a link to a list of the victims of the 1900 Galveston Hurricane. https://www.gthcenter.org The lists names an Edward Pryor “of St. Joseph, MO”, his wife and 4 children. This Pryor family is on the 1900 Census in Galveston: Edward, wife Mary, and children Mary, Frank, Edna, and Edith. Edward was born June 1863 in MO. It is likely that he is Edward son of Emsley R. Pryor of St. Joseph, Buchanan Co., MO.
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The Free African American Pryors of King George County, VA – 100 years before the end of the Civil War and the abolishment of slavery, there was a free black community in King George County, Virginia. Free African American families date to the 1750’s. Visit the new African-American section of the website to read more about these early Pryors.
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New Pryor photos… Just added to the photo gallery. I recently visited my mother and obtained a new photo of Willie Ann Pryor (b. 1873), daughter of Thomas Jefferson Pryor of Sumner Co., TN. Trish Smith has sent photos of grave markers of Pryors in Columbia, TN.
