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More Marion County Pryors

Posted on December 21, 2008 by Vanessa Wood

I wish the Pryors in Marion County Pryors were my line! It seems like this year some great discoveries have been made and DNA has helped to confirm some researchers connection to this line. I’m tying up the research on the “Marion” line who settled in Hardin County. I’ve updated the census extractions on the TN Pryor website, starting with the 1870 Census. Nova Lemons has been a huge helping to establish the connections has added information to her website at https://lemons.homestead.com/McNairyPry.html

We’re certain we have found in Hardin County George Washington Pryor, a son of Philip Pryor and a grandson of Matthew Pryor of Marion Co. In 1870 Andrew Jackson Pryor, George’s newphew, was also in Hardin Co. Andrew was a son of Jacob N. Pryor and a grandson of Philip Pryor. Jacob and his other children were in Henry Co., TN in 1870, but by 1880 his son William B. was in Hardin Co. and in 1900 his daughters Colestia and Caldonia were also in Hardin Co.

Something interesting came up in our digging, we found that William B. Pryor is buried under the name Button Pryor. Does anyone know of a connection of a Button family to these lines of Pryors?

Category: Genealogy, Tennessee Pryors | Tags: Census, Genealogy, Tennessee

Colestine Pryor b. 1861 – Great Grand-daughter of Matthew Pryor?

Posted on December 12, 2008 by Vanessa Wood

Colestine J Pryor

We have another Pryor to ID! Coletine Jocelyn Pryor was born in TN in 1861. She is on the 1900 in Hardin Co., TN with her husband James Ransom Creasy. Their marriage record clearly lists her name as “Melissa”. I guess genealogy wouldn’t be as much fun if folks kept the same on all the records!

I suspect that Colestine is the same woman who was counted as a daughter of Jacob N. Pryor in Henry Co., TN in 1870 and in McNairy Co., TN in 1880. On these earlier census records there was a sibling named William B. Pryor and there is a William B. Pryor of about the same age living in the same Civil District as Colestine in 1900. The daughters of Jacob Pryor were simply listed by their inital on the 1870 and 1880 census. Could Colestine J. be “C.J.”?

If Colestine is indeed the daughter of Jacob Pryor she would be a great grand daughter of Matthew Pryor of Marion Co., TN.

Category: Genealogy, Photos, Tennessee Pryors | Tags: Genealogy, Tennessee

Samuel N. Pryor of the Marion County Line

Posted on October 18, 2008 by Vanessa Wood

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!

Category: Genealogy, Mississippi Pryors, Tennessee Pryors | Tags: marion county, mississippi, Tennessee, tippah

William Pryor of Stewart County, TN – Identified As One of “Austin’s Old 300”

Posted on October 12, 2008 by Vanessa Wood

Good news for Pryor researchers. Another TN Pryor line has been identified!

William Pryor who married Betsy Trammell has been long acknowledged as one of Austin’s Old 300, one of the group of settlers who migrated to Texas at the end of the 1820’s and two decades before the Mexican War. Information from researcher Betty Vaughn now connects the dots with documents to confirm that William is the same man who settled in Stewart County, TN in 1805.

While William has been identified there’s still the need to complete the family connections. William and his family left Tennessee for the Mississippi Territory (Clarke Co., AL) and then moved on to Texas. A James Pryor (probably William’s brother) and his wife Mary stayed in Stewart County. They and their kin were counted in subsequent years in both Stewart County and in Trigg Co., KY.

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More Marion County Pryors

Colestine Pryor b. 1861 – Great Grand-daughter of Matthew Pryor?

Samuel N. Pryor of the Marion County Line

William Pryor of Stewart County, TN – Identified As One of “Austin’s Old 300”

Photo of “Overton” Pryor?