When David Josiah Prior was born on 8 May 1824, in North Carolina, United States, his father, Thomas Jacob Pryor, was 24 and his mother, Elizabeth "Betsey" Garinger, was 20. He married Elizabeth Buck on 8 August 1850, in Lawrence, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 9 daughters. He lived in Pond Creek Township, Greene, Missouri, United States in 1880 and Buck Prairie Township, Lawrence, Missouri, United States in 1900. He died on 18 May 1901, at the age of 77, and was buried in Kerr Cemetery, Pond Creek Township, Greene, Missouri, United States.
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In the 1830's, President Jackson called for all the Native Americans to be forced off their own land. As the Cherokee were forced out of North Carolina many of them hid in the mountains of North Carolina.
Historical Boundaries: 1833: Greene, Missouri, United States
Historical Boundaries: 1845: Lawrence, Missouri, United States
English (southern), Scottish, Dutch, and German: ultimately from Latin prior ‘superior’, used to denote a prior, a monastic official immediately subordinate to an abbot, hence a nickname for someone thought to resemble a prior.
Irish: Anglicized form of Irish Gaelic Mac an Phríora ‘son of the prior’ (this is the usual origin in counties Cavan and Leitrim). Some examples may be Anglo-Norman, the same name as in 1 above.
Portuguese, Spanish, and Catalan: from prior, probably denoting someone in the service of a prior or a nickname for someone who behaved in a pompous way.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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