Ancestry.com has put up a database of Tennessee Marriages: “Tennessee State Marriages, 1765-2002”. What I like about this database is that there are actual images of marriage licenses and registers. It gives a unique online opportunity to look at the handwriting and solve a few family history mysteries.
A new database wouldn’t be any fun unless it has a few Pryors in it… and it does!
In 1850 Emily Pryor married Austin L. Green in Roan Co., TN. They are on the 1850 through 1900 Census in Roane County (extractions are now on the TN Pryor website). They were married in January, so probably Emily is not the mother of the 5 children in the household at the time of the 1850 Census. In 1860 5 additional children were counted in the family. In 1880 and 1900 Emily reported her parents were born in VA and TN.
Was Emily a widow of a Pryor or was she born a Pryor?
