General Notes

    Find bio on g/g/g/grandson Justice William Samuel Pryor here:
    http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~lpproots/Pryor/justice_w_sl_pryor.htm

    excerpt:

    The following is a very brief outline of one of many Pryor jurists. Most of the material is offered courtesy of Northern Kentucky Heritage magazine.

    Born on April 1, 1825, in Henry County, KY, little William Samuel Pryor was certainly no April fool. He was to become Kentucky's most famous jurist of his life-time.

    Will's genealogy was easy to follow. It was almost a joke in the family. Nearly every male Pryor in his line was named Samuel. First, there were Robert and Betty (Green) Pryor. Robert was the exception. Then Robert's son Samuel Pryor in VA, 1693 to !760. Next came Samuel, II (1725-?). After that came Samuel, III (1762-1811) and Samuel, IV (1804-1833). (The Roman numerals are the author's for ease of explanation.)

    This line of the large Virginia family had moved west to Henry County, KY, when the fourth Samuel was born. Samuel, IV, was married to Ann (Nancy) Marshall Samuel, who came from several legal families. The Country's best known U.S. Supreme Court Justice, John Marshall was one of her cousins as well as the Clark family of lawyers, generals and explorers. Her brother was a judge as well.

    . . . Tom Fiske, Jan. 1, 1999