The Pryors are of English origin, and Tennessee had been the home of the family for several generations. In that state, Isaac Pryor, the father of our subject, was born in 1807. About 1838, he came to Pike county, Illinois, making the journey according to the common custom -- with a horse and wagon, camping out by the way.
Much wild game still roamed through the forest and over the prairies in this locality, and Mr. Pryor hunted considerably. He bought land in the township where his son now lives, first building a log cabin, and continuing to clear and improve the place. He lived thereon until his death, but bought one hundred and sixty acres additional, having three hundred and twenty acres when called hence. He had but little means with which to begin his work, but industry and determination met with their due reward.
Isaac Pryor became known here as a man of strict honesty and indomitable courage and perseverance. He held the office of Township Treasurer for seventeen consecutive years, and was also Constable. In politics, he was a Democrat, and in religion a Methodist, quite devoted to the interests of the cause of Christianity. He belonged to the social order of Masonry.
He breathed his last in 1864, leaving a family of six children, named respectively: Mary, William H., Samuel, Lucy, Sarah, and Thomas. The mother bore the maiden name of Sarah Harris, was born in Tennessee in 1808, and died in 1840 at the early age of thirty-two years.
(From "Portrait and Biographical Album of Pike and Calhoun Counties, Illinois." Published 1891, Biographical Publishing Company, Chicago, Illinois.)
The Pryors are of English origin, and Tennessee had been the home of the family for several generations. In that state, Isaac Pryor, the father of our subject, was born in 1807. About 1838, he came to Pike county, Illinois, making the journey according to the common custom -- with a horse and wagon, camping out by the way.
Much wild game still roamed through the forest and over the prairies in this locality, and Mr. Pryor hunted considerably. He bought land in the township where his son now lives, first building a log cabin, and continuing to clear and improve the place. He lived thereon until his death, but bought one hundred and sixty acres additional, having three hundred and twenty acres when called hence. He had but little means with which to begin his work, but industry and determination met with their due reward.
Isaac Pryor became known here as a man of strict honesty and indomitable courage and perseverance. He held the office of Township Treasurer for seventeen consecutive years, and was also Constable. In politics, he was a Democrat, and in religion a Methodist, quite devoted to the interests of the cause of Christianity. He belonged to the social order of Masonry.
He breathed his last in 1864, leaving a family of six children, named respectively: Mary, William H., Samuel, Lucy, Sarah, and Thomas. The mother bore the maiden name of Sarah Harris, was born in Tennessee in 1808, and died in 1840 at the early age of thirty-two years.
(From "Portrait and Biographical Album of Pike and Calhoun Counties, Illinois." Published 1891, Biographical Publishing Company, Chicago, Illinois.)
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