Hello, David. I am seeking information regarding a line of my family named
Pryor that I'm told lived in
Pryor, OK for a while. My great-grandfather, James Arthur
Pryor, and family lived in
Oklahoma around 1909, when one child, James H. "Buss"
Pryor was born. His birthplace is listed as
Shawnee, OK. The family apparently then went back to
Crawford County, KS, from which they had come, and returned to
Oklahoma between 1917 and 1919. In 1919, Tom
Pryor was born in OK. The 1920 OK census indicates the family lived in Picher,
Ottawa Co., OK. My grandmother, Bertha, was born in 1924 in
Crawford Co., KS, so the family apparently moved back sometime between 1920 and 1924. My great-aunt, the only one in the family with any recollection of family history, reports that they lived in
Pryor City, OK when she was a child -- Possibly around the time that James H
Pryor was born in 1909(?). I understand that the city of
Pryor was named after Nathaniel
Pryor, a member of the Lewis and
Clark expedition. I haven't determined that there is an family relationship with this person. My great-great-grandfather, James Henry
Pryor, father of James Arthur was born in OH in 1850, and James Arthur was born in 1867 in Pittsburg,
Crawford Co., KS. Any information you may have about this family would be appreciated. Or if you are able to point my in a direction that might be useful for research, I would appreciate that also.