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Samuel N. Pryor of the Marion County Line

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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!

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

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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.

Read more… (Wayback Machine link)

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John Pryor and Rebecca Cook: Connection to Other Pryors?

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I’ve heard from a researcher who is working on the line of William Pryor who married Mahala Lewis in Montgomery Co., AR.  William is probably William Henry Pryor who was born in 1829 in TN, the same man who served in Co. H. , 1 (Colquitt’s Arkansas Infantry) during the Civil War.  It’s suspected that he’s the Henry Pryor who was working as a farm hand in Wilson Co., TN in the Ricketts household at the time of the 1850 Census.

Some researchers have included Henry William Pryor as a son of John Pryor and wife Rebecca Cook.

So which line of Pryors is this John Pryor from?  He was married in Rutherford Co., TN in 1823.  There’s an Allen Pryor on the 1820 Census in Rutherford Co. John and Rebecca were on the 1830 and 1840 Census in Wilson Co., TN. From these census entries we can surmise that John was born between 1800 and 1810. By 1850 John was probably deceased, his wife and several children were in Chistian Co., KY.

I’m now wondering if John Pryor is the connection to link up some of the “straggling” Pryors in the census records. There’s the Allen Pryor in Rutherford Co. 1820, then an Allen Pryor on the 1830 and 1840 Jackson Co. census. We know the Allen born in 1810 in SC and living Jackson Co. in 1850 is related to the Thomas Pryor born 1813/1814 in TN who was living in Wilson Co., TN in 1850. Are John, Allen (and Alfred in Jackson Co.), and Thomas related? How?

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PHOTOS: Amazing Tin-Types on the Site

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I received 4 more photos from the “Reed Collection”. 3 are tin-types of Pryor women from Gallatin, TN and one is of Buster Simmons, the son of Ann Eliza Pryor and a grandson of Allen L. Pryor. The tin photo were pretty dark with age, but I did my best to bring out the images with Photoshop. One of the photos is of Lucy Pryor, also a daughter of Allen L. Pryor. It helps to tie together the photos of the Pryor women already noted in the collection… they all wore am exceedingly large bead necklace in their photos! It look like the strands of giant Austrailian pearls. Read NY Times Article on Big Pearls 

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Newsletter #20

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Do you WIKI? Have you visited WIKIPEDIA the online encyclopedia? In December I submitted an article on John Benjamin Pryor, son of Luke Pryor and Ann Batte Lane. I recently updated the Wikipedia article on his brother Senator Luke Pryor of Limestone Co., AL. If you are interested in what Luke looked like, his portrait is on the website of the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/bibdisplay.pl?index=P000557

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More information on NORTON PRYOR – Norton owned land in Middle TN in the early 1800’s. The Internet sleuthing of researcher Barbara VanHout has uncovered information that confirms Norton Pryor was a Philadelphia land speculator. Although he held large amounts of land in Tennessee, he probably never even visited Tennessee.
(Wayback Machine link)

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Added another Pryor to the TN Pryor list. SARAH PRYOR born about 1810 in Tennessee, married Stephen Paxson. They lived in Scott Co., IL, Pike Co., IL (houses away from Isaac Pryor on the 1850 Census), and in St. Louis, MO.
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Found Ann E. Pryor Simmons (daughter of Allen L. Pryor of Sumner Co.) on the 1900 Census in Collin Co., TX. Apparently she and her family accompanied her brother Lycurgus Pryor to Texas and lived near their other brother, William Thomas Pryor.
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New PHOTO added to the TN PRYOR GALLERY! Family Portrait of Allen L. Pryor of Sumner County with daughter Bettie Pryor Gregory’s family (about 1895).

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List of Killed and Wounded in the action of morning of January 27, 1814. Captain Owen’s Company: Allen Pryor, wounded slightly. — Memoir of Gen. David Blackshear. (During War of 1812?)

May 29th, 1794?
Allen Pryor to James Wood, Lieutenant-Governor– Enclosed I submit to the Board the contract entered into by me with  Mr. Cavendish, to supply the Troops raised for the defence of Kanawha with provisions.

— Calendar of Virginia State Papers and Manuscripts

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New on Ancestry.com…PHOTOS!
http://www.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=1093
Search by name and keywords (like county or town name). I saw photos of Pleasant Pryor of Johnson County, TX (born Overton County TN!) and Nannie B. Pryor Lorance of Cannon County. Not just photos… there are copies of death records, wills, marriages and more.

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