On CBS Morning Show they ran a story this morning on how President Obama is descended from an African slave named John Punch through his mother’s Virginia family. Obama is connected to the Pryors, now I’m wondering if the Pryors are connected to the Bunch line.
Pryor researchers who follow our Facebook Page probably saw that I posted a link to the President’s lineage back in April. http://familypedia.wikia.com/wiki/Ancestors_of_Barack_Obama. Barack Obama has a family lineage that traces back to the Childres/Childress family who married into Pryor families in Colonial Virginia; his 6th great grandparents were Robert Childers/Childress and Nancy Pryor. Robert was a son of Henry Childress born about 1730 in Albemarle Co., VA.
An article about Obama’s connection to the Bunch line also appeared in the NY Times this morning http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/30/us/obamas-mother-had-african-forebear-study-suggests.html?pagewanted=all. Bunch or Punch are not names that I’ve seen connected with the Pryors, so I had to Google to see what I could find, afterall they were all in roughly the same area of Virginia. In case anyone is interested in researching further, I found Thomas Bunch born 1763 in Louisa Co., VA was the father of Pryor Bunch. Perhaps there’s a Pryor connection in this line?
