The Reed Collection

A collection of family photos of Pryors and aligned families from Sumner County, TN. In February 2007 this collection of family photos was loaned to the Tennessee Pryor website.

Among the photos are several tin-type photos from the 1860's and 1870's and photos from the 1880's and 1890's of the children and grandchildren of Allen L. Pryor of Sumner County. In the late 1890's Lycurgus Pryor, his sisters Ann Eliza Pryor Simmons and Alice Pryor Belt with their respecitve families left Gallatin for Farmersville in Collin County, TX. Many of the photos are from these lines who migrated to Texas.

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Click on the links below to view the photos. If you are able to identify anyone in a photo(s) please the Contact Us link on the left. Please cite the photo number in your correspondence so we can accurately match up photos to their correct identity.

01.jpg	unknown, male, tin type, no markings.
02.jpg	Betty Pryor Gregory, daughter of Allen L. Pryor. Born 1861. Tin Type. No Markings. Identified by additional tin type that was in the possession of her son Tom Gregory.
03.jpg	unknown, male, tin type, no markings. Slightly tinted as if it had been colorized by hand. Note: This man looks similar to girl in photo 4. 4. unknown, female, tin type. Writing on back says "Aunt Gertie, Mama's sister"
04.jpg	unknown, female, tin type. Writing on back says "Aunt Gertie, Mama's sister"
05.jpg	IDENTIFIED!... man and woman, on back "Aunt Vickie and Uncle Apell". Aunt Vickie may be Victoria Wright from Sumner County, TN. Photo taken by Alex de Anquinos, Nashville, Tenn....Aunt Vickie is Susan V. Simmons born 1858 in TN, sister of Joshua Simmons who married Allen L. Pryor's daughter Ann Eliza. Uncle Appell is Theron B. Appell born Dec. 1837; he was from New Haven, CT.
06.jpg	unknown female, no markings. Possibily the same woman identified as "Aunt Vickie" in photograph 5.
07.jpg	unknown man. Photo by Richardson, Farmersville, Texas.
08.jpg	Clara Simmons (daughter of Joshua Simmons and Ann Eliza Pryor). Possibly with first husband Robert Faullin. Photo by Rising sun Picture Gallery, J. P. Jennings, Proprietor & Operator. Clara and her husband left TN for TX in about 1897. Identity is in doubt because Clara Simmons' grand-daughter identified photo 14 as Clara Simmons... these are deffinitely two different people!
09.jpg	Writing on back: Clara Simmons and Robert Faullin, Roberta Durham and Henry Neal, Alice Wright and Walter Hillson. Photo taken by J. P. Jennings' Art Gallery, Gallatin, TN
10.jpg	Possibly a daughter of Allen L. Pryor. No markings. Tin type. Photo has similar size, style of clothing as other photos identified as daughters of Allen L. Pryor.
11.jpg	Unknown female. J. P. Jennings, Rising Sun Picture Gallery, Gallatin, Tenn.
12.jpg	Unknown female. Possibly related to woman in photo 11. The photos are printed on similar card stock from the same studio, both women are wearing same square jewelery at their neck. Photo taken by J. P. Jennings, Rising Sun Picture Gallery, Gallatin, Tenn.
13.jpg	Unknown female. No markings. Same paperstock as photo 23. Woman in photo 13 and in photo 23 appear together in photo 28. Possibly Clara Simmons daughter of Ann Eliza Pryor Simmons.
14.jpg	Unknown female with children. No markings. Possibly the same woman who was in photo 13.
15.jpg	Unknown woman. Photo by Otto B. Griers, Nashville, Tenn.
16a.jpg	School photo. Written on photo "8 Princeton 1933" Princeton is near Farmersville, Texas.
17.jpg	The woman the back row of this photo is possibly "Gertie" as she resembles the childhood photo of Gertie... photo 4. The young woman in the front row is possibly the same girl who appears in photo 13 and 14. Possibly family photo of Ann Eliza Pryor and husband Joshua Simmons.
18.jpg	unknown woman, tin type, no markings. Possibly Ann Eliza Pryor Belt, daughter of Allen L. Pryor. Her facial features resemble the woman in photo 13 who is suspected to be Ann Eliza's daughter Clara Simmons.
19.jpg	IDENTIFIED!... Walter A. Pryor born Jan. 1875, son of Thomas Jefferson Pryor and Permelia Ann Talley of Sumner Co., TN. Walter was a grandson of William Pryor and Margaret Curry, and the great-grandson of John Pryor and Massy Taylor. Identified from another existing photo that had his name written on the back.
20.jpg	Children of Alice Pryor (daughter of Allen L. Pryor) and husband James "Burt" Belt. From left to right Arcie, Cleora, Golden, and Wavie.
21.jpg	Unknown family. Photo by Griers and Knoellein, Nashville, Tenn.
22.jpg	Possibly two sisters. These two girls are also standing next to each other in the back row of photo 27. Photo by Hearn, 306 1/2 Union Street, Nashville, Tenn.
23.jpg	Unknown woman, also in photo 28
24.jpg	Woman in front is possibly "Gertie" as identified in Photo 17. Boy in this photo is also possibly the boy in photo 17. Photo by J.P. Jennings' Art Gallery, Gallatin, Tenn.
25.jpg	Unknown woman. Possibly member of same family in photo 21. Photo by Griers and Koellein, Nashville, Tenn.
26.jpg	Children and Grandchildren of Allen L. Pryor. This photo was taken at the same time as Photo 27, shortly before the family left for Texas in 1897.
27.jpg	Children and Grandchildren of Allen L. Pryor. This photo was taken at the same time as Photo 26, shortly before the family left for Texas in 1897. Back of photo: " Remember October 1893, We all came from Portland.
28.jpg	Woman from photo 23, and woman from photo 13 are together in this photo. Both are wearing the same clothes they were wearing in the other photos.
29.jpg	Unknown young man. Probably related to women in photo 28 as the paper stock appears to be the same.
30.jpg	More info... photo accompanied a 1936 letter to Clara Howell (grandaughter of Allen L. Pryor). The letter was from her cousin Nellie Bradley of Russellville, AR. Unknown baby. Photo by Jno. H. Ganner, Russellville, ARK.
31.jpg	Unknown women. Photo by J. B. Stanford, Farmersville, Tex.
32.jpg	Unknown woman. No markings.
33.jpg	Young man and young woman. The young man is possibly the same person as the young boy in the front row of photo 21. Photo by Stanford Bros. Farmersville, Tex.
34.jpg	Inscription on the back: "To Clara form Uncle Will, March 1893" Possibly William Simmons. Photo by Bromowicz, Laredo, Tex.
35.jpg	Inscription on the back: "Dear Cousin Clara...it was taken on my 19th brithday - March 31, 1942 - Mary K. Harris.
36.jpg	Printing on back of photo, "J. C. Pinner, Photographer, Dyersburg, Tenn., Negatives of this Photograph will be preserved. All orders for Pictures from the same Will be promptly filled."
37a.jpg	Two photos. No markings. Same paper stock. Possibly brother and sister in resemblance.
37b.jpg	Two photos. No markings. Same paper stock. Possibly brother and sister in resemblance.
38a.jpg	Baby photo and photo of young boy (below) on same paper stock.
38b.jpg	More info... Baby photo (above) and photo of young boy on same paper stock. Boy resembles Walter Pryor in photo 19. He is possibly one of Walter's brothers, Hugh or Burley Pryor.
40.jpg	Ann Eliza Pryor Simmons Center (Ann Eliza, daughter of Allen L. Pryor.
41.jpg	NEW...Allen L. Pryor. Tin-type. A. L. Pryor was born in 1816, it's estimated that this photo was taken in about 1870-1875. The cardboard boarder is similar to photo 42, it's assumed that they were taken by the same studio.
42.jpg	NEW...John Edward Pryor, son of Allen L. Pryor, born 1851. Tin-type. Photograph is in a paper frame that names studio: Ground Floor Photography Gallery, G. C. Rhine, Photographer, Gallatin, Tenn. G. C. Rhine was on the 1870 Census in Sumner County and listed his occupation as photographyer. He was still in Gallatin on the 1880 Census.
43.jpg	NEW...Ann Eliza Pryor Simmons, daughter of Allen L. Pryor, born 1846. Tin-type. Ann Eliza married Joshua Simmons in 1874, so photo may have been taken shortly before that time.
44.jpg	NEW...Lucy Pryor, a daughter of Allen L. Pryor, born 1864. Tin-type. Wife of James Golden "Burt" Belt. Photograph was taken around 1874 or 1875.
45.jpg	New... Allen L. Pryor born 1816 with second wife Margaret McWhirter, daughter Betty Pryor born 1861 and husband Thomas Washington Gregory. Children left to right Elizabeth Gregory b. 1893, Allen Foster Gregory b. 1887, and Vernon Head Gregory b. 1890.
46.jpg	NEW... Lucy Pryor, the same girl as photo 44. This photo was taken at about the same time as the photos of her sisters. It is a very darkened tin-type, but you can make out that she is wearing the large beaded necklace that her sisters were wearing in their photos.
47.jpg	NEW...Buster Simmons? Son of Ann Eliza Pryor Simmons. Photo is printing in cardstock.
48.jpg	NEW...Unidentified woman. Tin-type.
49.jpg	NEW...Unidentified woman. Tin-type.