Benhill-Irwin-Sumter County GaArchives Obituaries.....Pryor, Sr., Shepherd Green March 26, 1952
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The Fitzgerald Herald, Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Georgia, Friday, March 28, 1952, Front Page
The Fitzgerald Herald
Fitzgerald, Ben Bill County, Georgia
Friday, March 28, 1952
Front Page
                FINAL TRIBUTE PAID S. G. PRYOR THIS AFTERNOON.
   Funeral services for Shepherd Green Pryor, Sr.,  were conducted this 
afternoon from the Central Methodist Church with the pastor, Rev. C. A. Jackson, 
Jr., assisted by Rev. Wade E. Scott,  Superintendent of the Thomasville District, 
and Dr. Carey T. Vinzant, pastor of the First Baptist Church officiating.
   Mr. Pryor was born in Sumter County, Georgia, on November 18, 1861,  the 
son of the late S, G. and Penelope Tison Pryor.  On December 24, 1883 he 
married Anna Gatewood Wilson, who preceded him in death in 1940.
   Mr. And Mrs. Pryor and family moved to Fitzgerald in January 1901.  Down 
through the years the Pryor family has been an outstanding asset to the civic, 
educational, social and spiritual life of the city.
   Mr. Pryor was a member of the Central Methodist Church and the several 
Masonic bodies.
   He was a true sportsman and during the latter years spent many an hour fishing 
and hunting.  Scores of men will off times recall stealing green sugar cane from 
Uncle Shep’s cane patch on Merrimac Drive, when they were young boys, which 
he never failed to have year after year.
   He had been in ill health for a number of years, the past three being spent bed-
ridden.  Mr. Pryor died very quietly Thursday morning about 2:40 o’clock.
   Surviving are one daughter, Mrs. C. C. Persons of Fitzgerald,  and six sons,  R.

W. Pryor of Douglas,  S. G. Pryor, Jr.,  of Fitzgerald,  R. M. Pryor of Moultrie, 
J. 
J. Pryor of Fitzgerald,  F. L. Pryor of Houston, Texas,  and  W. A. Pryor of 
Cordele.  Also sixteen grandchildren and eleven great grandchildren.
   Music for the service was furnished by the church choir and accompanied on 
the organ by Mrs. Cecil Cannon.
   Pallbearers were J. C. McDonald,  H. A. Powell,  H. L. Jay,  Elmer Archer,  D. 
L. Paulk  and  M. E. Mathis.
   Honorary pallbearers included the present board of Stewards of the Central 
Methodist Church and the members of board who were active when Mr. Pryor 
was a member of the board, and Clayton Jay,  Hardy Owens,  W.C. Helton,  
Derrick Jones,  M. E. Whitman,  and  I. T. Taylor.
   Interment in Evergreen Cemetery.
     


Additional Comments:
Compiler Notes: His father,  Capt. Shepher Green Pryor was born 7 Dec 1828 in 
Burke County, Georgia and died 2 May 1911 in Sumter County, Georgia and is 
buried there at Desoto Cemetery in Sumter County, Georgia.  His wife Penelope 
Eudoria Tyson was born 24 July 1834 in Pulaski County, Georgia and died 17 
May 1915 in Sumter County, Georgia.  And as stated she iburied at DeSoto 
Cemetery in Sumter County, Georgia.

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