FIFTH GENERATION

322. Charles Henry PRYOR was born on 29 Aug 1889 in Barlow Township, Washington County, Ohio. He died on 16 Nov 1968 in Belpre Township, Washington County, Ohio. He was buried in Rockland, Belpre Township, Washington County, Ohio in the Rockland Cemetery.

He was married to Agusta "Guste" Mae WARNER (daughter of James WARNER and Lucy KENNEDY) about 1920. Agusta "Guste" Mae WARNER was born on 30 May 1900 in Cutler, Fairfield Township, Washington County, Ohio. She died on 11 May 1980 in Zanesville, Muskingum County, Ohio. She was buried on 13 May 1980 in Rockland, Belpre Township, Washington County, Ohio. Charles Henry PRYOR and Agusta "Guste" Mae WARNER had the following children:

+729 i. Donna PRYOR.
730 ii. Charles Henry PRYOR Jr. was born in 1925 in Barlow Township, Washington County, Ohio. He died on 24 Nov 1936 in Rockland, Ohio. NEW PAPER REPORT: "BOY RIDING BIKE KILLED AT ROCKLAND: November 24, 1936, Charles Henry Pryor, Jr., colored, aged 11 years, was fatally injured when struck by an automobile on State Route No. 7 at Rockland at 5:45 p.m. on Tuesday.

He died in an ambulance while being taken to the office of a Belpre doctor. The body was taken to the Spencer Mortuary. Merle Welch, 26, of Belpre Route 1 drove the automobile that struck the boy. The Pryor boy and his cousin, Kenneth Stribling (sin), aged 9 years, were riding double on the former's bicycle. The automobile swing around another car on the highway and Welch failed to see the bicycle in time to avoid a crash. The wheel was crushed and the boys were thrown to the side of the highway. The Pryor boy's skull was fractured, he suffered other injuries and was unconscious when help reached him. The Stribling boy was not seriously injured. Dr. H.E. Dickson of Matamoras, county coroner, was called to investigate the case. Officers of the State Highway Patrol and Marshal William Mulligan of Belpre assisted with the investigation. This is the seventeenth highway fatality to occur in Washington County during 1936 as compared with nine in 1935. The dead boy, was a son of Mr and Mrs. Henry Pryor of Rockland, the father being employed on the state highways.

He is survived by his parents and by one brother and one sister. Funeral services will be held at Universalist Church at Rockland on Friday at 2 p.m. Rev. Mr. Morris (G.W. Morris)(sic), pastor of the African M.E. Church (Wings of Hope Tabernacle) of Zanesville, will officiate. Interment will be made in Rockland Cemetery."
+731 iii. Phillip E. PRYOR Sr..

He was married to Iva M. DALTON (daughter of Isaac Adrian DALTON and Laura May "Collins" STEVENS) on 30 Apr 1916 in Washington County, Ohio. Iva M. DALTON was born in 1897 in Washington County, Ohio. She died on 8 Jan 1917 in Washington County, Ohio. She was buried in Rainbow Cemetery, Washington County, Ohio.