VA PRYORS IS HERE! Keeping with the ALL PRYOR format, there is now an ALL VIRGINIA PRYOR pdf file on the website. Go to SOUTHERN ROOTS and click on the VA link. The file includes all PRYORS who were born in or resided in Virginia with a year of birth of 1820 or earlier. When lineages are known the parents’ are listed. Like the TN PRYOR file, this is a work in progress.
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A Jackson Co. Marriage… Eugene Byars, a researcher of the Jackson and Overton County Pryor, has information on the marriage of John Pryor of Jackson and Macon Counties in TN. From the book “Siftings from Putnam County, Tennessee” by Mary Hopson (1991): John Pryor married Mahala Moran. John’s mother was Nancy, a weaver from Jackson Co. His brother’s death record records the father as Caleb Pryor. Mahala Moran was the daughter of Martin and Annis Moran of Green Co., KY.
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Photo… Eugene also sent an email that points out that there is a photo of the house of Canada/Kennedy Lee on the Overton County website on the GenWeb. There is a family group included in the photo with the liklihood that Lee’s wife Martha Malone, the widow of William Pryor, is one of the women in the photograph. William Pryor was the son of James and Nancy Pryor and the sibling of at least 8 Pryors, many of which migrated to Carroll Co., AR. To view the photo go to http://www.rootsweb.com/~tnoverto/images/CanadaLeesHome.jpg
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More MO Pryors… Additional census information has been added to the US Census Records area, under Buchanan Co., MO as the hunt for the ancestry of famed trombonist Arthur Pryor continues.
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Just identified… William B. Pryor and Richard Pryor on the 1830 Census in Tipton Co., TN. William and Richard are brothers and sons of Richard Pryor and Ann Bland. William was recorded on the 1820 Census in Brunswick Co., VA, in 1840 in Warren Co., MS and in 1850 in Madison Parish, LA.
