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John L. Pryor is a prosperous farmer and stock man of Hazelwood Township, Webster Co., Mo., and was born in Marion County, Tenn., on the 16th of December, 1836, being a son of William and Nancy (Griffith) Pryor, who were also Tennesseeans, and who moved to Greene County, Mo., in the fall of 1840, and to Douglas County in 1858. Here the father resided until the fall of 1881, when he went to the Indian Territory, where he had two sons living, and there died January 5, 1888, at the age of seventy-five years. His wife died in 1857. John L. Pryor grew to manhood on a farm in Christian County, Mo., and remained with his father until he reached manhood, and on the 26th of July, 1860, was married in Douglas County, Mo., to Miss Catherine Kerr, a daughter of James H. Kerr, formerly a Tennesseean. Mrs. Pryor was born in that State, and by Mr. Pryor is the mother of five children: Nancy Olive (wife of William S. Haley), Mary E., Amanda, Dona Jane and Araminta S. They lost four sons in infancy, and one daughter, Lydia J., at the age of fourteen years, in 1884. In the fall of 1862 Mr. Pryor enlisted in the Enrolled Militia, Sixth Provisional Cavalry, and served until March, 1864, when he went to Illinois and enlisted in the One Hundred and Fiftieth Illinois Volunteer Infantry, serving as corporal until February, 1866, when he received his discharge, being mustered out at Atlanta. He returned to Missouri in the fall of 1866, and located near where he now lives, and since the fall of 1883 has been residing on his present farm of 120 acres, seventy-five of which are under cultivation, and furnished with fair buildings. Mr. and Mrs. Pryor are members of the Christian Church.