GILES CO., TN PRYORS

Gravemarkers:
Rose Hill Cemetary, Columbia, TN


Ethel McGriff Pryor, wife of Aaron Pryor

Henry Mark Pryor, son of Ethel McGriff and Aaron Pryor

Information from Trish Smith

Aaron Lindsey Pryor
1st marriage: Myrtle Peden. Children: Annie, Robert and Kate. Possibly a 4th child named Thomas. Annie married a Mr. McGriff and Robert Pryor married Icie Garrett.
2nd Marriage: Ethel McGriff. Children: Clyde, Willie, Wilburn, Henry Mark, and Eugene "Gene", Loula, Helen, Edith, Oneita, Danese "Dee", and an adopted daughter named Billie Jean.

Kate Pryor was the mother of Darnell, who was raised by his Pryor grandparents and later went to live with his mother when she married William Hollis Williams.

Census Notes:

1920 Census Giles Co., TN
Page 281b, Dist. 19, House 43/43 Aaron L. PRIER 55 TN TN TN, Ethel L. wife 35 TN TN TN, Kittie H. daughter 24 TN TN TN, Willie L. son 15 TN, Lula daughter 14 TN, Clyde U. son 12 TN, Wilber Lofton son 10 TN, Helen dau 7 TN, Eugene H. son 6 TN, Edith dau 3 TN, Henry M. son 2 TN, Darnell grandson 1 TN. (Ethel Pryor is listed as a widow and head of household on the 1930 Census in Maury Co., TN)

1910 Census, Maury Co., TN
Walnut St., Mt. Pleasant, 7th Dist., sheet 8b, A. L. PRYOR 44 md 3x - 8yrs. TN TN TN blacksmith-blacksmith shop, Ethel wife 26 md. 1x, TN TN TN, Robert son 17 TN TN TN, Kittie dau 15 TN TN TN, Willie son 6 TN TN TN, Lulu dau 4 TN, Clyde son 3 TN, Wilbur 7/12 TN.

1900 Census, Giles Co., TN
19th Dist., page 292a, house 4, Aaron L. PRIER 5/1864 36 widow TN TN TN, blacksmith. Mary A. dau 12/1891 8 TN, Robert W. son 7/1893 6 TN, Kitty H. dau 3/1895 4 TN, Vern? Richardson boarder 8/1874 25 TN TN TN.

1880 Census, Giles Co., TN
Dist 5., Page 83A Joseph Cross and family... Lindsey PRYOR 16 farm laborer TN TN TN.

1870 Census, Giles Co., TN
Dist. 19. House 99 John G. PRYOR 35 blacksmith TN, Sally J. 36 TN, Henry M. 14 TN, Mary A. 13 TN, John V. 11 TN, Jefferson 10 TN, George W. 8 TN, Aaron L. 5 TN (John G. Pryor was the father of Aaron Lindsey Pryor. He is on the 1860 Census in Giles Co., TN. He may be a son of Henry N. Pryor (also a blacksmith) and Susan Taylor--they also had a son named Aaron Lindsey Pryor who would have been John's brother. Henry is reported to be a son of Thompson Pryor and Dicey Tripp.)