Anderson and Pryor were separated before the Civil War. They found each other and remarried in Hagerstown, Maryland, in 1905.
For a longer account of this re-marriage, see "Romance of a Slave Couple," The Old Dominion Sun (Staunton, VA), February 24, 1905, newspapers.com. That article identifies the groom as Robert William Anderson.
"Robert Anderson and Ida Pryor reunite and remarry ," Staunton Daily Leader (Staunton, VA), January 9, 1905, Last Seen: Finding Family After Slavery, accessed September 19, 2024, https://informationwanted.org/lastseen312/items/show/3237
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