New-York tribune., 1909-11-08
MARRIED 6I YEARS
PRYOR ANNIVERSARY.
Former Justice and Wife Re
ceiUe Congratulations.

There will be no celebration by former
Justice Roger A. Pryor and Mrs. Pryor of
the slxty-frst anniversary of their mar
riage to-day. but immediate relatives viii
call at their home. No. West s9th street
Flowers had been received from friends
yesterday. and in the afternoon Justice
Pryor and his wife sat In The large reeep-
tion room and the former told friends Of
many incidents OF his varied career.
The warmest OF his praises were for Lin
coin, whom he met several times I'm the
course OF the Civil War. The first meet
Ing was in behalf of a condemned prisoner,
a SPY, who had been with the former JUS
tiee in Fort Lafayette.
I'VE saw the President at night. and
when he got up to meet me 1 thought he
would never stop rising" he said
Mrs. Pryor interrupted at times 10 say
that an incident being recounted was new
TO her. The former Justice said that he
owed his release from Fort Lafayette TO
his action when, as brigadier general OF
the Confederate troops. he released on pa
role Federal soldiers captured at the battle
Of Bull Run rather than have them sent
To Andersonville. The President had heard
OF this. and when he also heard that the
then General Pryor had been captured and
was imprisoned. card ordering his release
was sent.
Mrs. Pryor was Miss Sara A. Rice when
she met the man who was to be her hus-
band. The former justice said not long ago
that the mass OF marital unhappiness that
used To come before Fthe court distressed
him very much. lie said:
II trust that the old-fashioned spectaele
OF Mrs Pryor and me here after all these
years without one unkiId word ever having
passed between US will be Of some benefit
to some one as an example"
Mrs. Pryor has been engaged for several
years putting into book form the remipls-
cences of herself and her husband. the lat
ter having been published recently. She
said yesterday that she began the work IN
March and had kept at it increasingly until
far into the summer. She had To hstea
to the blasting for a foundation for a big
building across the street while writing
and the former justice needed her attention
a good deal, and. looking affectionately at
him, she said he didn't like 10 see her WORK
so hard. She was determined. however
that the records the "reminiscences pos
sessed Of a critical period in the country
history should be printed
On several occasions she tried to check
her husband as he went over the days OF
his activities in the South. saying. aside.
that he felt so deeply about the stirring
times that he would be restless afterward
But he resisted, and il didn't really seem
as if he needed any cave. Justice Pryor
is in his eighty-second year. but his abun-
dant hair. worn long. is not gray; his form
is erect, eyes clear and voice as melodious
as ever. Nor does Mrs. Pryor show her
age by any means. and she retains the nne
features that gave her the reputation Of
being one of the most beautiful women al
Washington when her husband was Rep
resentative there.
Lawyer. editor. envoy on special mis-
sion TO Greece. Representative in Congress.
soldier. and in each eminent. and then
with a family of seven children after the
war jOurneying TO the big city of the
North to begin all over again. Justice
Pryor doesn't show a mark of extreme age.
He was forty-six years old then" Mrs.
Pryor said. referring to their arrival in
this city. "and he had to study law as il
he had never studied IL before. We had
nothing left" she continued reminiscently.
But the man of many experiences made
his way TO wealth and TO the bench of the
Supreme Court. The Pryor home has long
been a rendezvous for distinguished South
erners. and distinguished NOTtherners, too.
but to-day no festivities will mark the
wedding anniversary. The descendants Of
Justice and Mrs. Pryor will. however, have
a celebration in Virginia.