Marriage and Family
On November 8, 1848, Pryor married Sara Agnes Rice, daughter of Samuel Blair Rice and his second wife, Lucy Walton Leftwich, of Halifax County, Virginia. One of numerous children, she was effectively adopted by a childless aunt, Mary Blair Hargrave and her husband, Dr. Samuel Pleasants Hargrave, and lived with them in Hanover, Virginia. They were slaveholders. When Sara was about eight, the Hargraves moved with her to Charlottesville for her education.
Sara and Roger A. Pryor had seven children together:
- Maria Gordon Pryor (called Gordon) (1850 - 1928), married Henry Crenshaw Rice (1842 - 1916)
- Theodorick Bland Pryor (1851 - 1871), died at age 20, likely a suicide, as he had been suffering from depression. Admitted to Princeton College at a young age, he was its first mathematical fellow; he also studied at Cambridge University, and had been studying law.
- Roger Atkinson Pryor, became a lawyer in New York.
- Mary Blair Pryor, married Francis Thomas Walker
- William Rice Pryor (b. c.1860 - 1900), became a physician and surgeon in New York and died young.
- Lucy Atkinson Pryor, married the architect A. Page Brown; in 1889 they moved to San Francisco, California.
- Francesca (Fanny) Theodora Bland Pryor (b. 31 December 1868), Petersburg, VA, married William de Leftwich Dodge, a painter; they lived in Paris and New York.
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