JAMES S. PRYOR 1844 - 1910
The following are census records and information collected on James S.
Pryor. It is speculated that he may be connected to the Pryor of Marion Co.,
TN, perhaps through the line of John H. Pryor and wife Harriet Williams.
James was from the Hamilton Co., TN are and may have lived in GA before
moving on to the Nashville area and finally to Texas and Arkansas. His
only child, Hattie, was named Harriet Jane Pryor.
Contact Melba if you have any information on this
line.
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1860 Census Hamilton Co, TN Dist 14 Chattanooga
page 126, house 918, im37 Eliza PRYOR 33 housewifery $20 TN, James
16 day laborer TN
Civil War: James
S.Pryor joined the 37th Infantry Regiment, formerly the 7th Tennessee
Regiment Provisional Army, [and also called 1st East Tennessee Rifles] was
organized at Camp Ramsay, near Knoxville, Tennessee, in October, 1861.
1870 Census
Davidson Co., TN
19th
Civil Dist. Madison Stn. PO
Page 83 House# 30/32 Eliza
PRYOR 42 Keeping House TN, James P. Pryor 23 farm laborer TN, Melvina Pryor
24 at home TN, Charlie Douglas 12 at home TN
1880
Census Tarrant Co, TX Pct 3 ED95
page 165 James
PRYOR 34 farmer GA Unk,, Melvina 40 keeping house GA Unk., Hattie 8 GA
(daughter Hattie was named Harriet Jane)
His
daughter, Hattie
Jane PRYOR, married Rev. William Jefferson Osburne bef. 1887,
Powhatan, Lawrence Co, AR. James and Melvina are named on the
marriage record. Then Melvina died or they divorced: 1889 James Pryor
married Mrs Mary A.Hubble Sept.17,1889 in Lawrence Co, AR.
1900 Census Lawrence Co. AR Black River Twp.
Powhatan Town
House 150-153 James PRYOR, born Sept 1845, age 54, farmer, TN TN
TN. Mary A., wife, born Oct. 1845, age 54, GA NC TN.
From researcher Melba Pygott: Letter
to J. S. Pryor, Powhattan, AR from "R M Tankesley", Chattanooga, TN dated
July 6, 1902, discussed his application for a Confederate pension. R M
Tankesley was one of the captains of 37th Inf D Company and was counted in
Dist. 14 of Hamilton Co., TN on the 1860 Census (he was a 24 year old
merchant). In 1880 Rufus M. Tankesley, circuit court clerk, was
counted in Chatanooga TN. Another letter from a BUTLER who says
he has known James for over 40 years. There was an Asher Butler in Co D.
1910 Census, Lawrence Co., AR Black River Twp.,
Powhatan Town
Page 2B, House 43, James S. PRIOR 65 TN TN TN, married 2x, married 12
years, merchant, general merchandise. Mary, wife, 55 married 2x,
married 12 years, AR, Unknown, Unknown. Levi Russell, servant, 68, single,
TX OH IL, carpenter, odd jobs. (Census date April 16, 1910)
Powhatan Cemetery records: PRYOR,
J.S. b. 2 September 1844; d. 17 April 1910
1920
Census, Lawrence Co., AR Duty Twp, page 5B
William Osburn 52 AR TN TN, clergyman, pentecostal church. Hattie (PRYOR)
49 TN TN AL, Floyd son 17 AR, Beatrice dau 15 AR. Evert son 10 AR, Bessie
dau 7 AR
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