Colestine J Pryor
We have another Pryor to ID! Coletine Jocelyn Pryor was born in TN in 1861. She is on the 1900 in Hardin Co., TN with her husband James Ransom Creasy. Their marriage record clearly lists her name as “Melissa”. I guess genealogy wouldn’t be as much fun if folks kept the same on all the records!
I suspect that Colestine is the same woman who was counted as a daughter of Jacob N. Pryor in Henry Co., TN in 1870 and in McNairy Co., TN in 1880. On these earlier census records there was a sibling named William B. Pryor and there is a William B. Pryor of about the same age living in the same Civil District as Colestine in 1900. The daughters of Jacob Pryor were simply listed by their inital on the 1870 and 1880 census. Could Colestine J. be “C.J.”?
If Colestine is indeed the daughter of Jacob Pryor she would be a great grand daughter of Matthew Pryor of Marion Co., TN.
