RICHARD AND MOURNING PRYOR: Son, Joseph Pryor
Joseph Pryor of
Jackson Co., TN has been attributed to Richard and Mourning. That may be
true. However, I notice most researchers claim him to be the Joseph b.
1-Dec-1767 in SC and counted in Tuscaloosa, AL from 1824 through 1850.
I've gone through several family trees posted on Ancestry.com and have
extracted the actual census records and I am now not at all convinced
that these are the same man. All of the strong candidates who are
children of Richard and Mourning were born in VA.
Joseph Pryor in
Jackson Co. was counted on the 1820 Census. He was aged 45 or older, so
he is the correct age to be Joseph in AL. However, he does not appear to
be married, or perhaps married to a much younger woman. He had three
females living with him: one who was between 16 and 25, and two girls
who were under 10.
There is no doubt
that Joseph in AL was in TN from 1803 through 1817 since there is a
clear census record of his daughters stating TN as their birthplace.
A researcher on Ancestry.com has a date of birth of 25 May 1793 in TN
for his daughter Mary, which would place Tuscaloosa Joseph in TN
before 1800.
So, if Joseph from
Jackson Co., TN and Joseph in Tuscaloosa Co., AL are the same man, where
was his daughters in 1820? Where was his wife?
