INTRODUCTION AND BEGINNING OF GREAT GRANDMOTHER SUSAN

This will be a second blog devoted entirely to my history. Sometimes hilarious,sometimes tragic but nevertheless a part of the "making of me". I'm sure there will be a lot of edits and additions as I go along and more information is found.I want my work to be preserved for future generations without the fear of lost papers and pictures and this is as good a way as I can think of to do just that. I am just getting things organized so this will be a work in progress. Hop on and join me in this journey down memory lane!
BEGINNING ON MY PATERNAL SIDE HERE WE GO!


Long,long ago in Cleveland County in the town of Shelby lived a couple, William Jay and Nelly Pryor. They had 7 children that I know of Susan, John, Pinkney, Charolette,
William O.,Catherine, and Thomas Pryor. Susan was my great grandmother, she was born on March 1,1836. I have no birth or death records at this time on her brothers and sisters. She had a very hard life when she was young,being brought up by a single mother.I can hardly imagine how hard that must have been back then,it would be a very difficult thing even today with 7 children to raise.
As the story goes William Jay (Susan's father) owned land with a fine spring on it. Well here is the story of what happened told by my father's double first cousin and published in a local newspaper by my grandfather,her son.Click on it and enjoy the humor and tragedy all in one story.