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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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Newletter #19

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MORE ON THE JACKSON COUNTY TN PRYORS… Over the past months it was discovered that Sinderilla Pryor (wife of Allen Pryor b. 1810 in SC) was on the 1860 Census in Jackson County. The probability arose that Cinderella Prior on the 1870 Census in Franklin Co., IL was the same person. I recently obtained two death certificates from Illinois to try to confirm the identity of the Pryors in Franklin Co. And they do!

While working on the Pryors I weighed whether Alfred Pryor who was on the 1850 Census with Allen and Sinderilla was the same person who appeared on Franklin Co., IL census record through 1920. His age differs wildly on the census records. In 1850 he was 5, in 1860 he was 14, age 16 in 1870, 23 in 1880, twenty years later in 1900 his age was recorded as 51, aged 56 in 1910, and aged 70 in 1920. The death certificate of Alfred Pryor states he was about 75 years old in 1921 (born about 1846 which would be close to his birth year on the 1850 census), although his date of birth wasn’t known. The certificate also confirms that his father was Allen Pryor of Tennessee.

Summaries of the death records are now on the TN Pryor website:
https://tennesseepryors.com/pryor-website/tn-records/tennessee-counties-j/

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This month all roads seem to converge on the Jackson County Pryors… but not without detours through Illinois and Williamson County, TN! A Pryor researcher contacted the website to report a link to Transcripts of court records for the probate of Luke Pryor’s will in 1848 and his sister Sarah Pryor McPhail’s will in 1851. (As of December 2019 link is no longer available)

The transcripts are interesting because they mention Rhoda Ann Pryor and her sister Polly (Mary) Ann Pryor who were living with a William Pryor in Jackson Co., TN. Both of these women are daughters of Henry B. Pryor (great grand-daughters of Luke Pryor).

Which raises the question: Are Rhoda and Mary, their guardian William, Allen and Alfred Pryor of Jackson County, and the line of Luke Pryor of Williamson Co., TN related?

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Do all these Pryors have your head “spinning?” Well, check out the website for information on the Pryor women from Jackson Co., TN who were spinners and weavers.
(waybackmachine link)

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Newsletter #17

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More Pryors added to the 1920 Census transcripts of TN. 3 households in Dist. 1 of Overton Co.

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Does anyone know how to interpret the cemetery records on Ancestry.com? The book/source information is not present in direct context with the data. I found “William T. Pryor, Revolutionary Soldier, Virginia”. I’d like to clarify where his grave was found. Is it in the Cleveland Family Cemetery in Philadelphia, TN?
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FOUND! Jackson Co., TN Pryors… Remarkably another Pryor family has been found on the 1860 Census. Sindarilla Pryor, widow of Allen Pryor from SC appears on the 1850 Census. She has now been found in District 13 of Jackson Co. with several of her children. If you try to find her in Ancestry.com… watch out! She’s indexed as Lindanter Pasc. No wonder it’s so hard to find our kin!

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Charlotte Pryor b. 1816 in Mississippi added to the African American section. Read this interesting article to discover her connection to the noted Luke Pryor and his son John Benjamin Pryor of Adams Co., MS.
https://www.tennesseepryors.com
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Did you know… the TN Pryor PDF file is searchable? If you’re using a PC press CTRL F. A pop up window will apear. Type in a word you’d like to search. Try searching by county. You may find some lost kin!
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Cornelius Pryor of Hardeman (1860), Davidson (1870) and later Warren (1880) counties in TN has been identified as Cornelius Winter Pryor. He married in Dorset, England in 1844 and appears on the 1841 UK Census of Dorset.

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