Biographical Sketch of John L. Pryor, Webster County, Missouri

>From "History of Laclede, Camden, Dallas, Webster, Wright, Texas, 
Pulaski, Phelps and Dent Counties, Missouri" The Goodspeed Publishing
Company, 1889.
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John L. Pryor is a prosperous farmer and stock man of Hazelwood town-
ship, Webster county, Mo., and was born in Marion county, Tenn., on the
16th of December, 1836, being a son of William and Nancy (Griffith)
Pryor, who were also Tennesseeans, and who moved to Greene county, Mo.,
in the fall of 1840 and to Douglas county in 1858.  Here the father 
resided until the fall of 1881, when he went to the Indian Territory,
where he had two sons living, and there died January 5, 1888, at the 
age of seventy-five years.  His wife died in 1857.  John L. Pryor grew
to manhood on a farm in Christian county, Mo., and remained with his
father until he reached manhood, and on the 26th of July, 1860, was
married in Douglas county, Mo., to Miss Catherine Kerr, a daughter of
James H. Kerr, formerly a Tennesseean.  Mrs. Pryor was born in that
state, and by Mr. Pryor is the mother of five children: Nancy Olive
(wife of William S. Haley), Mary E., Amanda, Dona Jane and Araminta S.
They lost four sons in infancy, and one daughter, Lydia J., at the age
of fourteen years, in 1884.  In the fall of 1862 Mr. Pryor enlisted in
the Enrolled Militia, Sixth Provisional Cavalry, and served until 
March, 1864, when he went to Illinois and enlisted in the One Hundred
and Fiftieth Illinois Volunteer Infantry, serving as corporal until
February, 1866, when he received his discharge, being mustered out at
Atlanta.  He returned to Missouri in the fall of 1866, and located near
where he now lives, and since the fall of 1883 has been residing on his
present farm of 120 acres, seventy-five of which are under cultivation,
and furnished with fair buildings.  Mr. and Mrs. Pryor are members of
the Christian Church.

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