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.
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