Ulysses Sheridan Pryor and Jessie May Hughes

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Husband Ulysses Sheridan Pryor

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           Born: Sep 1864 - Rockland Twp, Venango Co, PA
     Christened: 
           Died: 30 Mar 1931 - Franklin, Venango Co, PA
         Buried:  - Rockland Cemetery, Rockland Twp, Venango Co, PA 1

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         Father: Jesse L. Pryer (1823-1889)
         Mother: Henrietta Caroline Cox (1822-1881)

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       Marriage: 21 Mar 1890 - Rockland Twp, Venango Co, PA

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Wife Jessie May Hughes

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           Born: 18 Feb 1867 - Cranberry Twp, Venango Co, PA
     Christened: 
           Died: 11 Jan 1953 - Franklin, Venango Co, PA
         Buried:  - Rockland Cemetery, Rockland Twp, Venango Co, PA 1

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         Father: John Hughes (1840-1892) 2 3
         Mother: Mary Jane Lusher (1847-1908) 3

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Children

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1 M Leslie A. Pryer

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            AKA: Lester Pryor
           Born: 1891
     Christened: 
           Died: 1953
         Buried:  - Rockland Cemetery, Rockland Twp, Venango Co, PA 1

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General Notes: Husband - Ulysses Sheridan Pryor

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First name given as Sherman (13)
"[He] died from burns received when kerosene oil exploded as he poured it on the kitchen fire. The house was completely destroyed and his wife and son received some burns." (13)

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General Notes: Wife - Jessie May Hughes

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The News-Herald, Franklin, PA
Monday, Jan 12, 1953; pg 3
Mrs. Jessie May Pryor.
Mrs. Jessie May Pryor, 85, of near Davis Corners, Rockland Township, widow of U. Sheridan Pryor, died at 12:40 a. m. Sunday in the Franklin Hospital, where she had been a patient 10 days.
Mrs. Pryor was the daughter of John and Jane Lusher Hughes and was born in Cranberry Township, Venango County, Feb. 18, 1867. She had resided in Venango County all her life. She was well-known in Rockland Township.
Surviving is one son, Leslie A. Pryor, at home.
The body was removed to the Burger Funeral Home, where services will be conducted at 2 p. m. Tuesday by Rev. Hugh Crocker, Rockland Methodist Church pastor. Interment will be in Rockland Cemetery.

1 Venango County Historical Society, Venango County Pennsylvania Cemetery Records and Early Church Histories, Vol. 5, Rockland Township (Franklin, PA: Venango County Historical Society, 1997), Pg 118.

2 —, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk, & Co., Publishers, 1890), Pg 1144.

3 Mrs. Harold V. Linn, Daniel Smith - Pioneer Settler of Rockland Township, Venango County, Pennsylvania (Venango County, PA: Privately published, 1961), Pg 118.