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Jesse S. Pryor

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 own 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 being under cultivation.

He was born in Perry County, Alabama 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 sister 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 1807 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 1800. Mr. and Mrs. Pryor have two bright and interesting little children: Blanche and Wallace.

They have a good and comfortable home, and, being very congenial in their tastes, are prepared to enjoy life and make the most of their surroundings. Mr. Pryor is a Democrat.

Biographical Sketches| Claiborne Parish

Source: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northwest Louisiana, Southern Publishing Company, 1890