Tennessee Pryors

Pryors in Tennessee Land Warrants

vanessa — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 18:17:32 +0000

From Laws of the State of Tennessee: Including Those of North Carolina …, Volume 2

Can we match these warrants to the correct Pryor in the correct Tennessee county?

“… one warrant issued by the commissioners of West Tennessee to JOHN PRYOR and since transferred by assignment to James Walker , No. 121, for 249 1-2 acres, dated November 8th, 1808.”

“… one duplicate military warrant issued by ———- to John Carter, jun. and since transferred by assignment to GREEN PRYOR, No. 236, for 640 acres dated May 30, 1817.”

Chapter 70, An act to provide for establishing a new Court House in the County of Morgan (1820)
“… Be it enacted, That PHILIP PRYOR, Ezekial Philpot, John M. Davis, Benjamin Hagler, and Joseph Englan, shall be, and they are hereby appointed commissoners to carry this act into effect, and a majority of them shall at all time be competent to transact any business, or perform any duty imposed upon them as commissioners. (I suspect this is Philip Pryor of Marion County since some of the names on this document appear in Roane County records).

Eliza Pryor of Marion Co. – Photos of Matthew Pryor Jr.’s Line

vanessa — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 19:55:24 +0000

More photos? YES! Thanks to researcher Jeanne Maxi we have some very old photos of Matthew Pryor Jr.’s line. Jeanne is in possession of a photo album that was once owned by Matthew Jr.’s daughter Eliza A. Pryor who was born in Marion County in about 1837. Eliza married Carl Biese.

Enscribed in the album: “Grandma Biese’s photo album before she married Grandpa in 1874 – so this book is at least 100 years old – Mother.” [written in pencil] and “This was a step-grandmother but the only one I ever knew – Dad’s own mother died of yellow fever in 1873. Her name was Harriett Narcissa McDonald before she married Grandpa” [written in ink].

There are almost 30 wonderful photos and we need your help to ID these even if it’s to ID when the photographer was active in the area. Can you ID the era from clothing or accessories?

VIEW THE ALBUM on the Tennessee Pryor webiste
http://www.tnpryors.com/photo_gallery/photo_gallery_biese.html

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Photos of Overton Co. Pryors: James and Nancy Pryor Line

vanessa — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 12:49:11 +0000

Old photos are alway an exciting find for Pryor researchers. I’m happy to share with you photos from Ruth Larson’s MyFamily.com website: Photos of Mary Ellen Pryor and her husband Jeff Engler, an early photo of Mary Ellen Pryor and probably her first child, and Mary Ellen’s half-sister Lizzie Pryor with her husband William Reid (or Reed)– the photos appear in this order below. Both Lizzie and Mary Ellen were daughters of John Pryor, and granddaughters of James and Nancy Pryor.

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New Info: James and Nancy Pryor Line from Overton Co., TN

vanessa — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 12:07:26 +0000

Another clue has surfaced to help piece together this line. I was contacted by a researcher who identified the wife of Samuel Pryor who lived in Perry County, IL.

Samuel Pryor b. 1832 in Tennessee is believed to be a son of James and Nancy Pryor from Overton Co., TN. Samuel left Tennessee with his brother Jesse some time between April 1849 (Jesse’s son was born in TN about that time) and September 29, 1850 when he was counted on the Census in Carroll County, AR.

The new clue? We now have the identity of Samuel’s wife! Samuel Pryor married Sarah Jane Poston, also from Overton County, TN. She and her family are on the 1850 Census in Overton Co. Samuel and Sarah married about 1856. Their first child was born in 1857 in Illinois. By 1860, Samuel’s brother Henry Logan Pryor had married Sarah Elizabeth Mize. Both of these Pryor brothers were counted on the 1860 Census in Perry Co., IL.