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Ms. Franklin: I believe the "unknown Pryor" you seek was John Pryor who married Anne Bland, daughter of Richard Bland and Anne Poythress. This is according to the 1901 D.A.R. application of my great aunt (I am a Richard Bland descendant). According to that application, John and Anne had a son named Luke Pryor Sr. who married Anne Batte Lane (in Va.) in a second marriage (his first marriage was to Martha Scott, sister of Gen. Winfield Scott). Their son Luke Pryor Jr. (1820-1900) married Isabella V. Harris was appointed to fill the unexpired term of George S. Houston (his law partner) in the U.S. Senate following the Civil War and was elected to Congress in 1883 (see for many of the references I am making here "The Journals of Thomas Hubbard Hobbs" by Faye Acton Axford published as part of a bicentennial series by the U. of Alabama Press. Luke Pryor Jr. lived and worked in the environs surrounding Athens, Alabama in Limestone County. That Axford book also mentions Roger Atkinson Pryor (1828-1912) as "an ardent secessionist" who turned down firing the first shot at Ft. Sumter. If you wish to know more please email me.
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