WELCOME to Tennessee Pryors...
More than 200 Pages of Pryor Families and Their Genealogy!

The Tennessee Pryor website is dedicated to tracing the Pryor families of Tennessee and the research of their migration within Tennessee and beyond. The search for Pryors began with with the Pryors in Sumner County., TN and associated lines in Overton, White, Jackson, Pickett, Fentress and Clay Counties and led to matching up records to Pryor families throughout the South. This website is an opportunity to archive Pryor research and to share the tremendous resources of countless Pryor researchers.

NEW! Improved TN PRYOR PROJECT... This project is a comprehensive list of all Pryors who lived in Tennessee before 1850. The project spreadsheet has been transferred to Google Documents
visit the web page and follow the link.

Where to start? If you know where your Pryors came from in the Southern US, go to the TN or US Census Records. If you want to delve back in to your Pryor genealogy start with Southern Roots and Pryor Histories.
There are lots of surprising old photos in the Photo Gallery.

Give back to the website. Please give back to the website by emailing your own Pryor histories, notes and photos!


History Websites...
Antique Names
Famous Census Records
1930 Census Book