It’s time to get out the No. 2 pencil and add another member to the Richard and Mourning Pryor tree. Posted on the Payton surname board at Ancestry.com was a request for info on Alfred Payton who married Sarah Pryor. I followed the researcher’s leads and found that Sarah is most likely the daughter of Walton Pryor and Mary Powell and a grand-daughter of Jeremiah Pryor.
Sarah is on the 1850 Census in Gentry Co., MO living in the household of Walton Pryor. She married Alfred Payton in Cass Co., MO in 1856. I haven’t found Walton on the 1860 Census nor have I found Alfred and Sarah, however Walton’s daughters Syntha (Cyntha) Pryor Smith and Artemesia Pryor Sigman are on the 1860 US Census in Cass County.
In 1865 Walton Pryor and his daughters Artemesia and Sarah were counted on the Kansas State Census in Linn Co. Sarah and Alfred are on the 1870 US Census in Linn Co. and then counted on the State Census in 1875 living in Miami Co., KS. It appears that Sarah was deceased by 1880 as Alfred had remarried and the family was living in McDonald Co., MO.
Sarah’s connection to Walton Pryor is reinforced by the naming 2 of her 6 children after her siblings: Artemesia and Jeremiah.
Sarah’s daughters, Izora and Elvira, married McGarrahbrothers and settled in Big Spring, Benton Co., AR near their Aunt Cyntha Pryor Smith Sigmon.
