A HA! I found my first Pryors on the 1940 Census. I started with my clan in Sumner County, TN. The 1940 Census is an interesting thing… no more information on the origin of the person’s parents, some information about the person’s education, and no one asked if the person owned a radio (good-bye dumb question of the 1930 Census!).
Here’s who I found so far…
Dist 10, page 212, sheet 1a, house 3 Dewey PRYOR head 41 grade 8, TN. Lavelle wife 31 grade 8 TN, Edna dau 13 grade 5 TN. Otis son 11 grade 5 TN, Marjorie dau 9 grade 1 TN. Mabel dau 7 grade 0 TN. Zunzika? dau 4 grade 0 TN. Rebeckah dau 2 grade 0 TN. (Dewey Pryor , son of John Pryor and a grandson of Allen L Pryor.)
Dist 10, page 212, sheet 1a, house 3 John PRYOR head 88 grade 8 TN, Eugenia wife 69 grade 8 TN, Owen son 39 grafe H2 TN, Russell dau 30 grade H2 TN (John Pryor, son of Allen L. Pryor)
Dist 10, Dry Fork Creek, page 218a, sheet 7a house 109 Leonard Lee 32 grade 6 TN. Annie wife 29 grade 8 TN, Betty dau 6 grade 0 TN, Nellie dau 4 grade 0 TN, James son 2 TN, Willie (PRYOR) Gregory mother in law 67 widow grade 8 TN, Walter PRYOR uncle 65 grade 8 TN. (Walter Anderson Pryor and Willie Ann Pryor Gregory were children of William Pryor and Margaret Curry Pryor Hunter)
Dist 10, Rockbridge Rd, page 218b, sheet 7b house 113 Lila PRYOR head 44 widow grade 8 TN, Milton son 20 grade 4 TN, Evelyn dau 14 grade 6 TN, Dorothy dau 12 grade 3 TN, Lynard son 10 grade 2 TN, Louise dau 9 TN, Gene dau 7 grade 2 TN, George son 5 grade 5 grade 0 TN. (Lila Satterfield Pryor, widow of George Washington Pryor, great grandson of John Pryor and Massa Taylor Pryor)
Dist 10, Rutledge Lane, page 221b, sheet 10b, house 167 Ed PRYOR head 45 grade 6 TN, Annie wife 36 grade 6 TN, Mary dau 15 grade H1 TN, Howard son 13 grade 5 TN, Willie son 10 grade 2 TN, Katherine dau 7 grade 1 TN. Eugene son 4 grade 0 TN, Harold son 1 grade 0 TN.
