The REED COLLECTION is now on the website! More than 40 amazing photos of Pryors and their allied lines from Sumner County, TN and Farmersville, Collin County, TX. There are several tin-type photos from the 1860’s and 1870’s, lots of photos of the children and grandchildren of Allen L. Pryor. Ms. Reed is a gracious benefactor to the website… bringing history out of the family album for all of us to enjoy! These photos are now on Shutterfly.com and 300dpi (print quality images are available to anyone who wants to prints. If you are a UPromise.com member for college savings… Shutterfly contributes 7%. The TN Pryor website is not selling these photos, Shutterfly is a reasonable price source for photo printing and offers the ability to let everyone share in these photos. PLEASE… if you can identify anyone let us know!
Recently there have been terrific postings to the Pryor-RootsWeb mailing list. William Lindsey, a detailed and accurate researcher, is posting his findings on the line of Richard Pryor and Mourning Thompson. If you aren’t a member of the mailing list you are missing some great information! On the RootsWeb site you can read archived mail from the list all the way back to 1997! To join the list or read archived mail visit http://lists.rootsweb.com
The Missouri Pryors piqued my interest. Are Samuel, Emsley, and James Pryor of St. Joseph, MO related. Samuel is the the patriarch of the musical Pryors (and father of trombonist Arthur Pryor). Emsley served as a bugler in the Civil War leading one to hope that he may be part of this musical line, while both Emsley and James were employed as cistern and well diggers. All three families lived near eachother the Washington area of St. Joseph. All 3 were born prior to 1850 yet do not appear on a census until 1870. The Pension file didn’t hold any remarkable discoveries, but provided the names and birthdates of Emsley’s children.
A new addition to the website. On the home page you’ll now find a link to a blog. I’m testing this out to see if there is an interest in keeping up with Pryor research through the Blog. If any of the TN Pryor subscribers have their own genealogy Blog, let me know I will consider linking to it.
