While there are no links to our Tennessee Pryors, a post on the Ancestry Pryor Mailing List gave me a glimmer of hope in my own search. The Post is from researcher and author Tom Fiske who has been dilligently digging out the connection between Nathaniel Pryor of the Lewis and Clark expedition and the younger Nathaniel Pryor who settled in Los Angeles, Mexico (Yes, Mexico… he arrived before it became California and part of the United States). Read Post
I know I’m not the only one who has been frustrated by a “road block” in my Pryor family research. It’s a pleasure to learn about a Pryor line that like mine came from Virginia, into the frontier (Nathaniel was in Kentucky, while my Pryors went to Tennessee) and then beyond into Indian Territory. My own genealogy search seems a little more hopeful when you seen that there is still more information to turn over.
I’ve posted census extracts of many of the Pryors in California on the Tennessee Pryor Website. Since I love to see pictures, I’m posting below links to terrific old photos and other information that gives life to the Pryors in California.
PHOTO: Pablo “Paul” Pryor adobe in what is now San Juan Capistrano in Orange County.
http://content.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt6d5nc09q/
MAP: Aerial view of Pryor Adobe on MS Live Search Maps
PHOTO: Former home of Albert Pryor in San Juan Capistrano
PHOTO: Miguel Pryor and wife Rosa Sepulveda Pryor
PHOTO: Teresa Pryor Yorba
PHOTO: Albert Pryor
PHOTO: Soledad Pryor Landell
PAINTING: Nathaniel Pryor with Sam Houston
