This week I heard from a researcher who is trying to find more information on Samuel N. Pryor. She believes she has uncovered the identity of Samuel’s daughter.
Samuel N. Pryor is believed to be a son of Matthew J. Pryor of Marion Co., TN. Samuel was born about 1793 in Granville Co., NC. He was granted land in Marion County in 1824. In 1830 he was counted on the census in McNairy Co. He bought a lot in Purdy, McNairy County in 1831 and then sold it in 1833.
S. N. Pryor was counted on the 1840 Census in Tippah Co., MS. At that time he had a contemporary aged female in the home, believed to be his wife Delana Street, and a younger female who was between the age of 5 years and 10 years.
The researcher has found that Martha Adelaide, the wife of Thomas Jefferson Hill, was formerly a Pryor and suspects that she was Samuel’s daughter. Martha was born in 1833 in Tennessee and appears on the 1850 and 1860 Census in Tippah County, living with her husband. Their first born son was named Samuel. It should also be noted that a family with the surname “Hill” was recorded near Samuel Pryor on the 1840 Census.
The Tippah Co. genealogy site notes that Samuel served as a tax assessor and collector for the county.
If anyone has further information on Samuel or Martha, please comment on this entry. Thanks!
). He was born in Smithfield, RI in 1823. In 1854 he arrived in Memphis and married on 11-9-1853 (so did he marry in Nashville and move to Memphis?). In 1872 he moved to Louisville, KY to further his medical studies. On Ancestry.com I found a passport application from 1867 for a Christopher S. Fenner, but no information to further the search. He died in 1879.