Editing Roger A. Pryor (section)

===Personal life===
{{main|Sara Agnes Rice Pryor}}

On November 8, 1848, Pryor married [[Sara Agnes Rice Pryor|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]].<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=YvA_AAAAYAAJ&q=Sara+Agnes+Rice+Pryor Sara Agnes Rice Pryor, "Dedication to Mary Blair Hargrave", in ''The Colonel's Story''], New York, Macmillan, 1911</ref>  They were slaveholders.<ref name="Child">[http://docsouth.unc.edu/fpn/pryor/pryor.html#illustr9 Sara Agnes Rice Pryor, ''My Day: Reminiscences of a Long Life''], Macmillan Company, 1909, at ''Documenting the American South'', University of North Carolina, pp. 8-9</ref> When Sara was about eight, the Hargraves moved with her to [[Charlottesville, Virginia|Charlottesville]] where she completed her formal education.<ref name="Child"/> Sara Pryor shared her husband's struggles during their early years of poverty in Virginia (where they lived in various rented houses later demolished), and in New York. She sewed all the children's clothes, gained school scholarships, and helped her husband with his law studies.<ref name="Rice">[http://docsouth.unc.edu/fpn/pryor/pryor.html#illustr9 Pryor (1909), ''My Day''], pp. 336-339, accessed 23 April 2012</ref> Realizing that other women and children needed help, she raised money to found a home for them.<ref name="Rice"/>

Like her husband, Sarah Pryor helped found lineage and heritage organizations, including the Society for Preservation of the Virginia Antiquities (since 2009 named [[Preservation Virginia]]); the [[National Mary Washington Memorial Association]]; the [[Daughters of the American Revolution]] (DAR); and the [[National Society of the Colonial Dames of America]].<ref name="UNC">[http://docsouth.unc.edu/fpn/pryor/pryor.html Pryor (1909), ''My Day''], p. 420, accessed 13 April 2012.  Note: White Sulphur Springs was a traditional resort for the [[Planter (American South)|planter]] class of the South since the antebellum years.</ref>  She became a productive writer, after 1900 through the [[Macmillan Company]] publishing two histories on the colonial era, two memoirs and novels. Her ''Reminiscences of Peace and War'' (1904), was recommended by the [[United Daughters of the Confederacy]] to its membership for serious study.<ref name="Gardner">[https://books.google.com/books?id=-xG7Dfsxya8C&q=Sara+Pryor Sarah E. Gardner, ''Blood And Irony: Southern White Women's Narratives of the Civil War, 1861-1937''], University of North Carolina Press, 2006, pp. 128-130</ref>

Sara and Roger A. Pryor had seven children together:<ref name=Q>James pg. 103</ref> 
*Maria Gordon Pryor (called Gordon) (1850 - 1928), married Henry Crenshaw Rice (1842 - 1916) and had daughter Mary Blair Rice, who authored several books under the pen name of [[Blair Niles]].
*Theodorick Bland Pryor (1851 - 1871), died at the age of 20, likely a [[suicide]], as he had been suffering from [[depression (mood)|depression]].<ref name="Suplee"/> Admitted to [[Princeton College]] at an early age, he was its first mathematical fellow; he also studied at [[Cambridge University]], and had been studying law.<ref name="Suplee">[https://archive.org/details/lifeoftheodorick00suplrich Thomas Danly Suplee, ''The Life of Theodorick Bland Pryor: First Mathematical-Fellow of Princeton College''], Bacon, 1879</ref> 
*Roger Atkinson Pryor, became a lawyer in New York.<ref name="Pryors">
[http://www.tnpryors.com/southern_roots/roots_documents/PRYOR%20FAMILY%20Virginia.PDF "THE PRYOR FAMILY"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080511235813/http://www.tnpryors.com/southern_roots/roots_documents/PRYOR%20FAMILY%20Virginia.PDF |date=2008-05-11 }}, ''Virginia Magazine of History and Biography'',
Volume 7, Number 1, July 1899, pp. 75-79, carried at Tennessee Pryors website, accessed 13 April 2012
</ref>
*Mary Blair Pryor, married Francis Thomas Walker<ref name="Pryors"/> and, as documented in *[https://www.maryblairdestiny.com "Mary Blair Destiny"].<ref>Richman, Erin ''Mary Blair Destiny'', Two Goddesses Publishing, page 41-42 {{ISBN|978-1-7330180-0-5}}.</ref> she had daughter Mary Blair Walker Zimmer <ref>Erin L. Richman, ''Mary Blair Destiny'', Two Goddesses Publishing, 2019.</ref> Buried in Princeton Cemetery.
*William Rice Pryor (b. c.1860 - 1900<ref>[http://docsouth.unc.edu/fpn/pryor/pryor.html#illustr9 Pryor (1909), ''My Day''], pp. 347-348, accessed 23 April 2012</ref>), became a physician and surgeon in New York and died young.<ref name="Pryors"/>
*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<ref name="Pryors"/> and New York.

Roger and Sara Pryor's great-great-great-granddaughter is Erin Richman, author of *[https://www.maryblairdestiny.com "Mary Blair Destiny"].