When Luke Pryor of Williamson County, TN made his will in 1844 he carefully described the property lines of the real estate he was leaving to his wife Nelly. One landmark is described as “a line beginning near old Jamyes grave coming down the to the Creek.” Who is old Jamyes? A neighbor, a relative, a slave, a horse?
Luke Pryor married Nelly Rogers in Orange County, NC in 1799. They are named in an 1819 notice of an estate as some of the heirs of James Rogers (see post). That raises a question: Did they bring her father to Tennessee. There is a James Rogers who died in 1815 in Williamson County, TN. He died intestate, the estate administrator was Robert Rogers and there are no Pryor names in the estate file. Could this be the same man who is in the 1819 NC estate notice?
Does anyone know where Luke Pryor’s property was located and if there is a cemetery on the property? And who was in old Jaymes grave?