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William Samuel Pryor (Henry County, Kentucky, attorney.)

b. 1823-04-01 d. 1914-11-06

Henry County, Kentucky, attorney and farmer. Henry County, Kentucky, native. Son of Samuel Pryor and Nancy Samuel Pryor. Married to Mary C. Brinker Pryor in Henry County on January 8, 1848. Father of Joanna Pryor and Samuel Pryor. Married to Alphia Beasley Pryor in Henry County on January 31, 1856. Father of Anna Eliza Pryor, William Pryor, Nannie Pryor, Laura Pryor, and Robert Pryor. Attorney in Henry County in 1850. Owned six enslaved persons in Henry County in 1850. Attorney and farmer in Henry County in 1860. Employed Joseph Sedora and Nicholas Sedora in Henry County in 1860. Owned fourteen enslaved persons in Henry County in 1860.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Henry County, District 2, p. 440B.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Henry County, District 2.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Henry County, Subdivision 1, p. 321.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Henry County, Subdivision 1, pp. 181A, 183A.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Henry County, New Castle Precinct, p. 344B.

"Judge Pryor, Nestor of State Bar, Dies at Home at New Castle," Owensboro Daily Messenger (Owensboro, KY), November 17, 1914, p. 4.

"Judge Pryor Passes to His Final Reward," The Lexington Herald (Lexington, KY), November 17, 1914, p. 6.

The Biographical Encyclopædia of Kentucky of the Dead and Living Men of the Nineteenth Century, vol. 1 (Cincinnati: J. M. Armstrong & Company, 1878), pp. 28-29

Citation

Pryor, William Samuel. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32211413 (January 24, 2026).

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