Bio: Jesse S. Pryor, Claiborne Parish, LA
Source: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northwest Louisiana
The Southern Publishing Company, Chicago & Nashville, 1890
Submitted for the LAGenWeb Archives by: Gwen Moran-Hernandez, Jan. 2000


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Jesse S. Pryor is well fitted for the duties of a planter, for he is thrifty, 
industrious and enterprising.  He deserves the greatest credit for the prosperity 
which, he now enjoys, for he is in every sense of the word a self-made man, and 
has made his won way in life ever since he was twelve years of age.  He was 
compelled to labor very hard for a long time, but, unlike many boys, he did not 
foolishly spend his earnings, but carefully put them by for a "rainy day," using 
only a sufficient amount to clothe himself, so that in 1882 he was enabled, with 
the money he had saved, to purchase the plantation of 320 acres on which he is 
now residing, 200 acres of this land under cultivation.  He was born in Perry 
County, Ala., in 1859, and was one in a family of ten children born to Tabithy 
C. and W. S. Pryor, the names of his brothers and sisters being as follows: Robert 
(living), George and John (who were slain during the Rebellion), Benjamin (living), 
William, Thomas (deceased), James C. (deceased), Jesse S., Nannie (who died in 1878) 
and Charles.  In 1867 Jesse S. Pryor was brought by his parents to Louisiana, and 
with them located in Union Parish, where he grew to manhood.  He came to Claiborne 
Parish in 1877, attended school at Arizona for some time, and this parish has been 
his home to the present time.  He was married in 1886 to Miss Carrie Wade, a daughter 
of J. T. Wade, a native of Tennessee, who came to Louisiana in 1860.  Mr. and Mrs. 
Pryor have two bright and interesting little children: Blanche and Wallace.  They 
have a good and comfortable home, and, and being very congenial in their tastes, 
are prepared to enjoy life and make the most of their surroundings.  Mr. Pryor is 
a Democrat.

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