While packing up some of my mother’s things I found an hold horn. She had a note packed with it that it had been her father’s and that it had belonged to his grandfather. I’m guessing that it was his Grandfather, Allen L. Pryor, who was born in 1816. My grandpa was raised on the Pryor farm near Gallatin, in Sumner County, TN. I’ve done a bit of research, enough to learn that it isn’t a powder horn. My mom’s note said that she remembered her uncle blowing the horn (that would have been Allen Gregory of Nashville) in the 1930’s. From some photos online it looks hunting horns that people blow to call in the hounds on a hunt. Any ideas of what it was used for in Tennessee? Did they have fox hunting in Tennessee? Do you have a Pryor family heirloom you’d like to photograph and share?
