Roots Run Deep in Virginia and Tennessee

The earliest known ancestor of the Pride/Pryde family was George Pryde of East Lothian, Scotland. He was born in 1779 and married Elizabeth Pettierue. They became the parents of five children, one of whom was John Marshall Pryde (b.1811). He immigrated to America with his father in 1828 and they settled first in the Shenandoah Valley in Virginia. In 1834 he married Mary Ann Knowles and they eventually moved to Morristown, Tennessee. John and Mary Ann were the parents of fourteen children. Descendants live throughout the United States.