William C. Payne

Notes:

William's granddaughter said that he never spoke of his own father, but often of his step-father Grymes, a slave owner and cripple. (Payne, p 289)

The first record of William in Shelby County, Missouri can be found in the minutes of the March, 1838 term of the circuit court of Shelby County, William Payne was one of a number of people brought up on charges of gaming. This indulgence was in the form of amusement for dull days, but authorities looked upon it as a dangerous practice, also as a means of "stuffing" their pocketbooks and creating a little stir. Bryant Cockrum, George Gentry, William Payne, Isaac Wooley, Elijah Owens and Robert Joiner were all charged with "playing at loo"; Joseph Holeman and Abraham Vandiver, "for playing seven-up"; Elijah Owens, John Ralls, and Abraham Vandiver, "for playing three up"; Wesley Habbiburton and Joseph Holeman were indicted "for permitting gaming in their house." Three of the parties were convicted. George Gentry was fined $2; Isaac Wooley $1, and William Payne $5. The others were acquitted. (HISTORY OF SHELBY COUNTY, p 25).

The Shelby County 1840 Census shows Payne, William 0-0-1-0-2-0-0-1/0-0-1-2-0-0-0-1

Charles R. Strong and his daughter, Mary Pat Strong, while at the Shelbina Library came across many years of the land tax records for Shelby County from 1836 - 1863. The following information was found on these tax rolls:

Year Owner Acres Section Township Range 1841 William Payne 80 13 58 10 1844 William Payne 40 34 59 10 1852-1854 William Payne 80 13 58 10
40 18 58 9 1858 William Payne Sr. Same as Above

At the time of the 1850 census, 20 year old Edward WILSON and 16 year old Sarah WILSON were living with William and Sally, as was 13 year old Philo HOWELL. They were born, respectively, in Kentucky, Missouri, and Ohio. Relationship unknown. Philo Howell was still living with the family at the time of the 1860 census.

This family was not listed on the 1860 Ledger of Shelby slave owners.

William married Sarah "Sally" Hamilton on 17 Jan 1807 in Bourbon County, Kentucky. Sarah was born about 1790 in Kentucky; died after 1870. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Married 1st to Mr. WILSON and had 4 children. He died of Cholera on the Mohawk Trail enroute to MO and buried where he died. She married 2nd to Jesse GENTRY in MO and had 3 children. Jesse was born in Al Co. VA, died 1862. He had a son Garland by a prev. Marriage. 1850 Shelby Co. MO census had these children living with grandparents (William Payne and Sally Hamilton.) Edward W. Wilson age 20 KY and Sarah Wilson age 16 MO.

Nancy married Jesse Gentry about 1835 in Missouri. Jesse was born about 1808 in Albemarle County, Virginia; died in 1862. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Married William M.T. YOST they are buried together graves marked. They had nine children. Their graves are marked.

Matilda married William M. T. Yost on 27 Oct 1831 in Jessamine County, Kentucky. William was born between 1805 and 1809 in Maryland; died on 19 Dec 1868 in Marion County, Missouri; was buried in Palmyra, Shelby County, Missouri. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

She died young having never married.

Notes:

Married Mary Ferguson. He lived in Shelby Co. MO and is buried on old home place 5 mile NE of Shelbyville. Mary Ferguson born 3 Oct 1818 VA and died 21 Dec 1889. She had a brother Washington FERGUSON. William left his property to his sister, Sally Ann and his nephew Garland Gentry. Pattisons have a copy of probate settlement.

Charles R. Strong and his daughter, Mary Pat Strong, while at the Shelbina Library came across many years of the land tax records for Shelby County from 1836 - 1863. The following information was found on these tax rolls:

Year Owner Acres Section Township Range William H Payne 40 13 58 10
80 13 58 10

This family was not listed on the 1860 Ledger of Shelby slave owners.

Charles and Mary Pat also located an Indenture made on 17 September 1870 between William H Payne and Mary J his wife of Shelby Co, Missouri and Levi F. Payne of Marion Co, Missouri for a parcel of land in Shelby County, to-wit: the North West 1/4 of the North East quarter of section 13 township 58 range ten coutain(?) 40 acres more or less. It was recorded on 27 January 1876.

Finally, they located the following Will:

FILE = SHELBY COUNTY # 4

Probated July 7, 1885

Will of William H Payne In the name of God amen. I, William H. Payne of the County of Shelby in the state of Missouri, being of sound and disposing mind and memory do make publish and declare this to be my last will and testament hereby revoking all former wills made by me.

First, I desire that my funeral shall be conducted in a manner suitable to my means and position in life and that my body shall be buried at the Odd Fellows * * Cemetery in the city of Shelbyville.

Second, I desire that my just debts shall be paid so soon as practical after my decease.

Third, I desire that a monument shall be placed on my grave which shall cost not less than one hundred dollars and that such monument shall be erected within a reasonable time after my burial.

Fourth, I desire that my wife Mary T. Payne shall have absolutely, our choice horse and cow and also our buggy and I desire that my said wife shall make her own selection of said horse and cow.

Fifth, I desire that the ???? (looks like rest) residence and remainder of my personal property shall be sold and the proceeds shall be deposited in bank for the use and benefit of my wife Mary T Payne to be drawn out by her whenever she thinks that her necessities require it and after her death whatever is left of said sum deposited in bank as above directed shall be disposed of in such manner as she may have directed by will prior to her death, but in the event my my said wife should die without will then I desire that said sum so remaining in bank shall be distributed equally among the children of Richard H. Ferguson who is now deceased: this bequest of course being made subject to the payment of any debts.

Sixth, I desire so soon as practical after my decease that forty-acres of my land in Shelby County, Missouri described as follows to wit: the Southwest fourth of the Southwest quarter of Section eighteen (18) Township fifty-eight (58) of Range nine (9) West be sold and the proceeds of said sale be deposited in bank for the use and benefit of my wife as aforesaid and to be disposed of in the same manner as the money arising from the sale of personal property and deposited in bank and is directed to be disposed of except that I desire that at least one hundred dollars of sad sum shall be used for the purpose of purchasing a monument to be erected at the grave of my wife after her decease and burial.

Seventh, I desire that the ???? (looks like rest) residence and remainder of my real estate shall be used controlled and managed by my wife Mary T. Payne so long as she shall live and that she shall possess and enjoy all the rents and profits accruing from said real estate so long as she shall live and dispose of the same as to her may seem right and proper.

Eighth, after the death of my wife, I desire that my real estate shall go to and that the title to the same shall be vested in Mary E. Wood, wife of John C Wood, provided she or her husband John C Wood or some one for them shall pay to the legaters hereinafter named within tne year after the deceased or my wife aforesaid the sum of one thousand dollars: but in the event said one thousand dollars is not paid as above directed then I desire that the real estate shall be sold and the proceeds be placed in the hands of a trustee appointed by the probate Court of Shelby County Missouri, who shall pay out of said proceeds first the one thousand dollars in specific legacies hereinafter named and then he shall pay to Mary E Wood yearly, the interest on said sum so left in his hands after paying said specific legacies so long as she lives and after her death, I desire that whatever sum is then remaining in the hands of said trustee shall be distributed equally among the children of the body of said Mary E Wood.

Ninth, from my real estate on the proceeds arising from from the sale whereof I desire that my brother Levi Payne shall have the sum of four hundred dollars, I desire that my sister Sallie Ann Smith* shall have the sum of two hundred dollars, I desire that my niece Matilda Jane McKitchen shall have the sum of two hundred dollars and I desire that William Gentry son of James W. Gentry shall have the sum of two hundred dollars.

Probate approved by probate court July 7, 1885

Actual copies of both pre-probate and probated will in possession of Charles R. Strong

NOTES:

* Sallie Ann Smith is Sarah Ann Payne Smith, William H Payne Jr's Sister

* * This William H. Payne (see Brooke Payne's, The Paynes of Virginia p 292) is the son of William Payne and Sarah/Sally Hamilton (see p 289), he is the older brother of Thomas Hamilton Payne. Some person has confused the burial place of this William H. Payne with his father who is buried on the old home place-Payne-Jones Cemetery.

This will is not in agreement with Brooke Payne's comments on p 292.

The following cemetery information was located as well:

? Payne, William H. ? Son of William Payne ? Born: 1817 ? Died: June 18, 1885 Shelbyville IOOF Cemetery, Black Creek Township (He was 68 years 7 months and 3 days old **Nov. 15, 1816 would have been his birth date according to this information)

Family/Spouse: Mary J. Ferguson. Mary was born on 23 Oct 1813; died on 21 Dec 1893; was buried in Shelbyville Ioof Cemetery, Shelby County, Missouri. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Thomas Hamilton Payne was born 1819 in Kentucky. He was remembered by his family as a great hunter with gun and with hounds. He apparently moved to Missouri sometime before his marriage in 1843.

Charles R. Strong and his daughter, Mary Pat Strong, while at the Shelbina Library came across many years of the land tax records for Shelby County from 1836 - 1863. The following information was found on these tax rolls:

Year Owner Acres Section Township Range
Thomas H. Payne
80 16 59 9
80 16 59 9
40 17 59 9

This family was not listed on the 1860 Ledger of Shelby slave owners.

During the Civil War Thomas served in the Union Army. He enlisted with Captian C. Willmott in Shelbyville, Missouri on the 4th of April 1862. His unit in the Union Army was Capt. James W. Lampkin's Company H, 11th Regiment Cavalry, Missouri State Militia Volunteers. Thomas was made corporal. He was described as 6 ft. 2 in, with a light complexion, black hair and blue eyes. According to his service records, "It became evident soon after enlistment that diseases existed rendering the soldier unfit for duty." On June 1, he entered the hospital in Palmyra, Missouri to be treated. He was later moved to a hospital in Macon, Missouri. Thomas was discharged 7 July 1862. Surgeon C.C. Dickinson, who examined Thomas state that he was unfit for service "because of dyspepsia...existing long prior to enlistment. This man has suffered symptons of dypepsia for many years...and was unquestionably unfit for service when he enlisted." However, Thomas's immediate superior Sgt. Brown later testified that "Thomas H. Payne was, to the best of my knowledge, a sound able-bodied man....(and became) disabled in the line of duty by sleeping...in a dank room with open windows (during a period of almost constant rain), by reason of which he contracted asthma and typhoid pneumonia (as did many other soldiers quartered in this room)." This contradictory evidence caused Martha problems as she was trying to receive his service pension; and she had to provide lots of documents in order to eventually receive it.

In the book APRIL 1865, Jay Winik notes that "On one level, (Missouri) was the very embodiment of the Civil War itself: a conflict-ridden slave state that didn't secede, a state deeply divided in loyalties, a state with an ill-formed identity. On yet another level, as it descended into full-scale guerilla war, Missouri became a very different creature altogether, less a reflection of what the Civil War was and more a mirror for what the Civil War could become. It became a killing field. Missouri also produced the most bloodthirsty guerillas of the war. Topping the list was Willam Clarke Quantrill, a handsome, blue-eyed, twenty-four-year-old former Ohio schoolteacher. A close second was Bloody Bill Anderson, whose father was murdered by Unionists..among their disciples were young men destined for later notoriety: Frank and Jesse James, and Coleman Younger...In early 1862, Quantrill and his band of bushwhackers launched a series of strikes into Kansas...(This led to) thousands of Federal troopers and Kansas militiamen (to) quickly pursue the bushwhackers...thus escalated the vicious cycle of retaliation and revenge...The Union soldiers hunted the guerillas like animals. By 1864, the guerrilla war had reached new peaks of savagry. Robbing stagecoaches, harassing citizens, cutting telegraph wires were everyday occurences; but now it was no longer simply enough to ambush and gun down the enemy. They had to be mutilated and just as often scalped...In one massacre, a Quantrill chieftain calmly hopped from one body to another, plundering his prey. Altogether he stepped on 124 corpses. In another massacre, those who surrendered were clubbed to death...(Eventually) all order broke down. Groups of revenge-minded Federals, militia and even soldiers, became guerillas themselves, angrily stalking Missouri, tormenting, torturing and slaying Southern-sympathizers. Ruthless repriseals and random terror became the norm, and the entire state was dragged into an incomprehensible and accelerating whirlpool of vengence...the very fabric of all civil society was torn apart...civilians became not just anxious spectators but unwilling participants. In a war without fronts, boundaries, and formal organizations, the divisions between civilians and soldiers/partisans almost totally evaporated. As time wore on, ever-greater numbers of people fled--to Texas, Colorado, California, Idaho even Tennessee. By 1864, most rural Missourians had become refugees, inside or outside the state." (Winik, pps. 158-163).

The following deed was made 6 January 1876 between Thomas H and Martha J Payne his wife, Francis W Bosworth and Elizabeth H Bosworth his wife Wilbern Baldwin and Sarah H Baldwin his wife for and in consideration of one Dollar to be paid by Levi F. Payne of the county of Marion, Missouri sell real estate in Shelby County, Missouri to wit: the west half of the North East quarter of section 12 township 58 range 10 west containing 80 acres more or less. Recorded in the State of Kentucky, County of Jefferson (vol 2 C, P-138). [Apparently this had been recorded incorrectly at one time, because two deed corrections relating to this transaction immediately followed this deed].

In 1877 and 1878, Tom's health became much worse. He was advised by his family physician (Dr. Payne of Clarence, Shelby County, Missouri, whose biography* follows this) that his medical condition "was incurable and he advised him to go to Texas as the change in climate (the air being less humid) might help him." In Brooke Payne's book THE PAYNES OF VIRGINIA, he lists the following 10 children as accompanying Thomas and Martha Payne to Texas: Samuel, William H.H., Newton, Winfield Scott, Elizabeth, Catherine, Caroline, Berilla Jane, Thomas and Walter.

A published biography of William H.H. Payne has a slightly different list of children: Elizabeth, wife of John O'Neil, of Duncan; Kate, wife of Thomas Joyner, of Oklahoma; Samuel M., of Stephens county; William H., whose career has been sketched; Winfield, near Red Moon, Oklahoma; Levi N(ewton), of Wewoka, Oklahoma; Josephine, wife of L. F. McClannahan, of Duncan; Lula, wife of Allison Scott, of Duncan; Thomas B. ; and Walter W., of Duncan.

Note that Berilla Jane is on Brooke Payne's list (and also the LDS Ancestral Files), but not in the biography of William H.H. Payne, or on any of the census records viewed. This could be the wife of Levi F. Payne. Therefore, it is assumed she is on Brooke Payne's list in error. Also, the LDS files have a son Lee, not listed in any other record. It is also assumed this also was an error.

Tom and Martha's daughter Catherine Joyner had preceeded them to Texas. The other children all (without exception) moved to Texas as well. [Conversations with Lewis Adair Payne; National Archives as College Park; Thomas H. Payne Pension Application #36012-General Affidavit blank completed and signed by affiant G.T. Joyner of Chillcothe P.O., Hardeman Co, Texas on 16 February 1889].

A neigboring farmer in Hardeman County was L.F. McClanahan, whom they became "intimately acquainted with." Two of their sons were married to McClanahan's. Both L.F. and another neighbor noted that Thomas was not able to perform manual labor (more than a quarter of his time) and that he had a severe cough. [National Archives as College Park; Thomas H. Payne Pension Application #36012-General Affidavit blank completed and signed by affiants L.F. McClanahan and J.B. Loring, Hardeman Co, Texas on 5 April 1887]

At some point around 1880, Thomas and Martha appear to have moved east one hundred miles from Hardeman County to Montague County, and in 1880 itself, they are enumerated on the Cooke County, Texas census.

In 1883, Thomas made a claim to be placed on the Invalid Pension Roll of the United States. He stated he was greatly disabled, which prevented him from obtaining his subsistance by manual labor (farming) by reasons of contracting asthma while in service of the United States. Thomas signed the declaration in ink with some difficulty. He clearly was a man unused to the demands of a pen.

Thomas died on September 14, 1884. Dr. John Stinson, who attended him at the time of his last illness, stated that "He was suffering at the time...with what I thought to be asthmatic bronchitis. He was physically a wreck...He had all the symptoms of chronic bronchitis, and continually suffered from asthma, up to the time of his death, which occured from exhaustion."

After Tom's death, Martha pursued the claim for a Widow's Invalid Pension. Her attempt gives the impression of being a much more determined assault on the official bastions, although the ultimate outcome is unknown.

There is a photograph (120X170mm) of the elderly Thomas Hamilton Payne in the collection of Lewis Adair Payne. The original was presumably done circa. 1880 in Montague, Texas. Mary Olive Payne's daughter Dorothy has the original retouched photograph.



Biography of Thomas Payn'e Family Physician, Harry C. Payne (Relationship, if any, unknown)

PAYNE, Harry C, MD (1879 - 1938)

Dr. Harry Clancet Payne worked his way through college, graduating from Missouri University School of Medicine in 1903. He was the son of Bennett Allen Payne, MD, who graduated from Rush Medical College in Chicago in 1868, practiced medicine in Clarence, MO, served in the Union Army in the Civil War, was captured, contracted Tuberculosis while a prisoner and died when Harry was only nine years old.

Dr. Payne practiced medicine for a short time at Cherry Box and nearby Clarence, Mo. In 1904 he married Edna Kahlke of Rock Island, Illinois, and they moved to Paris where he practiced until shortly before his death from cancer.

In 1921 he made an overland trip to Denver, Colorado with Albert Sladeck. He had been told that X-rays of his lungs indicated TB, but those taken at Denver showed what were diagnosed as old scars.

A patient willed him a 13-room home and acreage with the stipulation that it be used as a hospital for at least two years. It was known as the Meyer Memorial Sanitarium in honor of the late parents of his benefactor, Mrs. Minnie Westphaling. After several years it was closed as Paris was not large enough to support a medical facility, and was only twenty five miles from well established hospitals.

He was joined by Dr. Joseph Flynt in 1921. Dr. Flynt practiced in Paris until his death and was aswell loved as Dr. Payne.

Dr. Payne's wife preceded him in death in 1937. They had three daughters - Helen Ford, Virginia Gibbs, Mary Grace Winburn.

(Research):
Census Listings:

1850 Census
Enumerated 20 Sep 1850
Missouri, Lewis County, District 48
451-452
Saml Marshall 55 M Farmer 1720 Va
Hannah Marshall 53 F Va
Caladonia Marshall 12 F Mo
Elizabeth Marshall 9 F Mo
H/Cinderilla Kenosh 30 F $500 Va
452-453
Thos. H. Payne 30 M Farmer Ky
Martha J. Payne 23 F Ky
Sarah E Payne 5 F Mo
Harriett C Payne 2 F Mo
Saml A Payne 1 M Mo

1860 Census
Shelby Co, Missouri Census
281
Pain, Thomas H 41 M Ky
Pain, Martha Jane 34 F Ky
Pain, Sarah E. 15 F Mo
Pain, Harriet 13 F Mo
Pain, Saml. 11 M Mo
Pain, William 9 M Mo
Pain, Winfield 7 M Mo
Pain, Levi N 5 M Mo
Pain, Catherine J 3 F Mo

1870 Census
Missouri, Shelby County, Tiger Fork Twp,P O Nelsonville
Enumerated 29 July 1870
Page 20
143-143
Mahar, John 37 M W Farmer $250 $100 Mo
Payne, Thomas 51 M W $3500 $512 Ky
144-144
""" , Martha 54 F W Keeping House Ky
""", Sarah 25 F W Mo
""", Samuel 21 M W Mo
""", Willis 19 M W At School Mo
""", Scott 17 S M At School Mo
""", Lavina (sic) 14 F (sic) W At School Mo
""", Carrie 13 F W At School Mo
""", Luly 9 F W Mo
""", Thomas 6 m W Mo
""", Walter 3 m W Mo
Payne, Sarah 81 F W Ky
Hair, Robert 60 M W Farmer 5500 1820 Ky
145-145
""", Elizabeth 52 F W Keeping House SC
""", John 24 M W $1800 $575 Mo
Lair Aldeison 58 M W Farmer 6000 2650 Ky

The Familysearch "1880 United States Census and National Index" has the following:

1880 Census
Census Place: Precinct 5, Cooke, Texas
Source:FHL Film 1255298 National Archives Film T9-1298
Page 32
RelationSexMarrRaceAgeBirthplace
Thomas H. PANE Self M M W 62 KY Occ: Farmer Fa: VA Mo: VA
Martha PANE Wife F M W 53 KY Occ: Keeping House Fa: MD Mo: VA
Elizabeth PANE Dau F S W 39 MO Occ: At Home Fa: KY Mo: KY
Luseler PANE Dau F S W 18 MO Occ: At Home Fa: KY Mo: KY
Wm. PANE Son M S W 29 MO Occ: At Home Fa: KY Mo: KY
Thomas PANE Son M S W 15 MO Occ: At Home Fa: KY Mo: KY
Walter PANE Son M S W 13 MO Occ: At Home Fa: KY Mo: KY

(Medical):Y DNA:

A Direct Male descendant of Thomas Hamilton Payne, bearing the PAYNE surname, was tested by FamilyTreeDNA in Houston. His line of descent is as follows:
Thomas Hamilton Payne b. 1819 Kentucky
Walter Winkle Payne b. 1867 Missouri
Harry Carl Payne b. 1898 Indian Territory
Living PAYNE, son of Harry

His DNA was predicted to be R1b1, the most common haplogroup in Western Europe.

The results were as follows:

(DYS#)
393-390-19-391-385a-385b-426-388-439-389-1-392-389-2-458-459a-459b-455-454-447-437-448-449-464a-464b-464c-464d
(Alleles)
13-24-14-11-11-16-12-12-13-13-13-29-16-9-10-11-11-25-15-20-28-15-16-17-17

More information can be found at the following website, part of the PAYNE DNA project. The kit was #48173, and our Payne group was assigned to lineage 1b

Thomas married Martha Jane Marshall on 5 Aug 1843 in Clark County, Missouri. Martha (daughter of Samuel Marshall and Hannah S. Hicks) was born on 27 Mar 1826 in Hardinsburg, Breckinridge County, Kentucky; died on 27 Oct 1900 in Oklahoma; was buried in Marlow Cemetery, Marlow, Stephens County, Oklahoma. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Married 1st 30 aug 1849 Palmyra MO to 1st husband William BALDWIN He was named Wilburn and the son of Elisha Baldwin. He died 22 april 1872. Husband no. 2 was John Loomis SMITH (Judge) (Major) he was born 27 sept 1827 died 21 aug 1906 bur. Sedalia, MO.

The following deed was made 6 January 1876 between Thomas H and Martha J Payne his wife, Francis W Bosworth and Elizabeth H Bosworth his wife Wilbern Baldwin and Sarah H Baldwin his wife for and in consideration of one Dollar to be paid by Levi F. Payne of the county of Marion, Missouri sell real estate in Shelby County, Missouri to wit: the west half of the North East quarter of section 12 township 58 range 10 west containing 80 acres more or less. Recorded in the State of Kentucky, County of Jefferson (vol 2 C, P-138). [Apparently this had been recorded incorrectly at one time, because two deed corrections relating to this transaction immediately followed this deed].

Sarah Ann Payne was the grandmother of Effie W. Lewis (later Mrs Thomas S. Bowles) of Richmond, Virginia. Effie Lewis was the genealogist who researched back to Sanford Payne and supplied this information to Brooke Payne.

Sarah married William Wilburn Baldwin on 30 Aug 1843 in Palmyra, Shelby County, Missouri. William was born about 1820 in Missouri; died on 22 Apr 1872. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Sarah married Judge John Loomis Smith after 1872. John was born on 27 Sep 1827; died on 21 Aug 1906; was buried in Sedalia, Pettis County, Missouri. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Mary married Austin Smith on 13 Aug 1853. Austin was born about 1833; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Charles R. Strong and his daughter, Mary Pat Strong, while at the Shelbina Library came across many years of the land tax records for Shelby County from 1836 - 1863. The following information was found on these tax rolls:

Year Owner Acres Section Township Range Levi Payne 80 9 59 9
80 9 59 9

This family was not listed on the 1860 Ledger of Shelby slave owners.

They also located several Indentures entered into by Levi:

5 January 1867 between Francis and Elizabeth Bosworth of Marion County, Missouri to Levi F. Payne, selling him land in Shelby County, Missouri for $120. The land was an undivided (1/8) interest which they received by virtue of inheritance as heirs at law of William Payne, deceased. (Book T U p-56)

18 March 1871 between Levi F. Payne and Barilla Jane Payne, his wife, of Marion County, Missouri and William Montgomery, with Levi purchasing land from them in Shelby County for $400, to-wit: the W 1.2 of the SE 1/4 of Sec. 9 in Township fifty-nine, Range 9 west containing 80 acres more or less, filed 24 Oct 1872 (Book W)

6 January 1876 between Thomas H and Martha J Payne his wife, Francis W Bosworth and Elizabeth H Bosworth his wife Wilbern Baldwin and Sarah H Baldwin his wife for and in consideration of one Dollar to be paid by Levi F. Payne of the county of Marion, Missouri sell real estate in Shelby County, Missouri to wit: the west half of the North East quarter of section 12 township 58 range 10 west containing 80 acres more or less. Recorded in the State of Kentucky, County of Jefferson (vol 2 C, P-138). [Apparently this had been recorded incorrectly at one time, because two deed corrections relating to this transaction immediately followed this deed].

17 September 18?? between William H Payne and Mary J his wife of Shelby Co, Missouri and Levi F. Payne of Marion Co, Missouri for a parcel of land in Shelby County, to-wit: the North West 1/4 of the North East quarter of section 13 township 58 range 10 containing 40 acres more or less. It was recorded on 27 January 1876. (BOOK U, p-257)

Finally, Charles and Mary Pat Strong located the following Will:

Shelby County #5 - Levi Francis Payne Will - May 18, 1890

In the name of the Benevolent Father of all, I Levi F. Payne of Shelbina Mo being now of sound mind do make this my last will and testament to with:

I hereby give, will and bequeath to my four children to with Amanda A Payne and Alice C. Payne and Thomas J. Payne and James E. Payne, all of my property both real and personal and all rights and choses in any action at law that may hereafter accrue that I shall die possessed of.

In testimony hereof I hereby sign and seal

L. F. Payne (Seal)

We the undersigned saw the above L.F. Payne sign the above after reading the same this fourteenth (14) day of May, 1890.

J. L. Smith (Seal) T. W. P. Reed (Seal)

(This is from a copy of the probated will.)

Courtesy of Charles Strong and Mary Pat Strong

Levi married Martha Rebecca Jones on 17 Sep 1851 in Palmyra, Shelby County, Missouri. Martha was born before 1833; died before 1860. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Levi married Barilla Jane Gash on 20 Mar 1860 in Marion County, Missouri. Barilla was born before 1837; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Was 19 in 1850 Shelby Co. MO. census and living with her parents. Still at home at the time of the 1860 census, and listed as age 31. Married Frank W. BOSWORTH They lived at Marseilles, ILL and had 4 children.

5 January 1867 between Francis and Elizabeth Bosworth of Marion County, Missouri to Levi F. Payne, selling him land in Shelby County, Missouri for $120. The land was an undivided (1/8) interest which they received by virtue of inheritance as heirs at law of William Payne, deceased. (Book T U p-56)

6 January 1876 between Thomas H and Martha J Payne his wife, Francis W Bosworth and Elizabeth H Bosworth his wife Wilbern Baldwin and Sarah H Baldwin his wife for and in consideration of one Dollar to be paid by Levi F. Payne of the county of Marion, Missouri sell real estate in Shelby County, Missouri to wit: the west half of the North East quarter of section 12 township 58 range 10 west containing 80 acres more or less. Recorded in the State of Kentucky, County of Jefferson (vol 2 C, P-138). [Apparently this had been recorded incorrectly at one time, because two deed corrections relating to this transaction immediately followed this deed].

Notes:

Shown in St. Louis Historical Society HISTORY OF MONROE AND SHELBY COUNTY (1881), p 917, to have married Anna McDANIEL on 8 Nov 1860. Shonw on the "Brown Family Tree" as Ancestry.com to have instead married Mary Anna Thomas in 1860.

Family/Spouse: Catherine Thomas. Catherine was born in 1853 in Kentucky; died between Feb and Oct 1892 in Shelby County, Missouri. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Sarah married Isaac Lawrence on 3 Jun 1858 in Marion County, Missouri. Isaac was born before 1838; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Lucy married J. Franklin Wright on 1 Nov 1860 in Marion County, Missouri. J. was born before 1840; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

She was said to have married Richard Baker.

Notes:

He is said to be buried at the Old Palmyra Cemetery in Missouri.

Notes:

She married a Carter.

Sarah married John O'Neill on 18 Aug 1883 in Montague, Montague County, Texas. John (son of Patrick O'Neil and Annie McClosky) was born on 27 Aug 1845 in County Tyrone, Ireland; died on 14 Nov 1914 in Duncan, Stephens County, Oklahoma. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Could she have been listed as Harriett C Payne 2 F Mo on the 1850 census, born ca 1848?

On a transcript of the 1860 Shelby County census, there is a 3 year old Catherine J Pain listed, which means she would have been born ca. 1857. According to the 1880 census, she was age 28, which means she would have been born closer to 1852. This would make her only 10 years younger than her husband, not 15. Is is likely that the 1860 listing for Catherine was actually for younger sister, Caladonia.

Catherine and her husband, Tom Joyner, are the first of her family to move to Texas. They arrive in Hardeman County in the spring of 1879. In a biography of her brother-in-law, John O'Neill, she was referenced as "Harriett Katherine, who now lived in Idaho...widow of the late Thomas Joiner, a farmer..."

Harriett married G. Thomas Joiner on 17 Nov 1869 in Shelby County, Missouri. G. was born on 25 Aug 1841 in Shelby County, Missouri; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

His obituary, as it appeared in the Marlow Review, Thursday, June 22, 1916.

Obituary of Samuel M. Payne

Born March 11, 1849 in Marion County, MO. Was married to Miss Olive McClanahan in August, 1873. To this union was born six children, two of whom are dead. His wife died five years ago. About six months ago he was united in marriage to Mrs. Hollingsworth of Duncan, Oklahoma. At this time he is survived by three sons, Marvin Payne of Chickasha, Frank Payne of Wichita Falls, Texas, and Aubrey Payne, Davidson, Okla., and one daughter, Mrs. H.P Haycraft of this city.

Mr. Payne was not a member of any church or lodge but he was a good man in every respect. He believed in good morals. He strictly believed in the "Golden Rule" "Do unto others as you would be done by." He believed in a supreme being and a higher power and universal salvation. He was a most devoted husband and father.

He was just a human being subject to the frailities of the flesh. If he made any mistakes we have forgotten them and if he has any accounting to make for the life he lived, he will make it to the Judge of all the earth who doeth all things well and will judge with justice and mercy.

(Courtesy of Lynell Gentry Cordell)

In a biography of his brother-in-law, John O'Neill, he was referenced as "Samuel, who lives on a farm near Marlow, Oklahoma."


The following biography of Samuel Marshall Payne was written by Ken Harvey:

Migrated to Texas on Texan Road (Hwy 69) with his parents and all his brothers and sisters after the Civil War, in abt. 1878. He would have been twenty-nine years old. Initially they all lived in a dugout.

See "Down the Texas Road" by Grant Foreman (1936) HISTORIC TRACES ALONG HIGHWAY 69 THROUGH OKLAHOMA Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman Press for general reference

In appearance he had a red beard and was of slender build. He had a weakness for fast horses which was perhaps encouraged by his contact with the Commanches out west. After all he needed speed to get away from them. He used to stride about the racecourse with tears in his eyes, such was his involvement in racing. He was quite an emotional man.

He cowboyed for many years in Texas and never considered that he worked for anyone in his life. It was a hard life. He and Ollie once found a man who had been skinned alive by the Indians while going somewhere with a wagon. He never knew if the victim was a whiteman or an Indian. They took him into town but he was dead on arrival.

On one occasion he found it necessary to hide in a plum thicket from Indians he had inadvertently come across. He stood there holding his horses nose to stop it whinnying. He was very fortunate with the wind direction as the scent of his mount was not carried to the Indian horses. The Indians would either have been in the area horse stealing or on the war path. It didn't really matter as the result for Samuel, if discovered, would probably have been the same.

1880 - His younger sister, L[ouise] C. Payne (b. 1863), stayed with his young family in Cooke County, Texas. She was "teaching school" at the time in 1880 according to the census.

1893 - While in living in Texas, Sam came to Oklahoma for the Land Run. He arrived for the opening of the Cherokee Strip in 1893. He came prepared with a wagon and team in order to ride with a lightweight racing saddle on his accompanying thoroughbred horse. He wore light boots and a cap with the bill turned backwards. He said he didn't want to look like a cowboy-he just wanted maximum speed. He found the land he wanted as he knew the area well from his droving days. He immediately placed his claim. After he got to the land office he sold the 160 acres he was now entitled to. The claim, which never had his name registered, was located near Enid and he was to say he made more money in that single transaction than he could have done in one whole year of being a cowboy.

In 1893 a Payne family group studio photograph was taken, probably in Quanah. It shows left to right; Samuel Marshall Payne (44) seated, Effie Mae (10) standing, C. Frank (18) seated, Aubrey Hamilton (16) standing rear, Samuel E. (14) standing forground, Marvin Walter (12) standing rear and Olivia McClanahan Payne (49) seated. Sam never grew any more. Lewis Payne has a copy of this photograph and the original is thought to have been with his sister Mary Olive and hence passed on to Dorothy Thompson. Another original is the property of Mary Ann Mounts Payne.

1895-He was the original entryman to 160 acres in Stephens County; the North-East quarter of section thirty-five in township two, [north of] range eight, west [of the Indian Meridian]. It is located about four miles outside Marlow. Sam and his family settled there, beside Hell Creek.

1900-The census shows the Sam Payne family living in Hardeman County, Texas.

1901-Samuel was described by his brother Walter W. Payne as the original entryman to 160 acres in Stephens County, Oklahoma. This land being the north-east quarter of Section thirty-five, township tow [Rock Creek, north of] Range eight (8) west [of the Indian Meridian. This farm was located about four miles outside Marlow]. This grant of land "was established and duly consumated" to Samuel M. Payne on 17 March 1920 by the signature of President Woodrow Wilson in line with the act to secure homesteads on the public domain.

1910 - Later Samuel purchased a farm about four miles outside Marlow, OK and in 1910 he was listed as living there in Rock Creek Township with his wife Ollie, his married son Marvin, his wife Grace and their child, his grandson, Chadwick. There were also two hired men and a cousin?, Lizzie Pictria (19), in the household. Ollie died in April of 1910 and Samuel became a widower.

1914-A sepia toned photograph is taken of Samuel in front of his house. The photograph includes (l to r) his son Marvin, Samuel, daughter Effie and her husband Hugh S. Haycraft.

In an Affidavit of Heirship of Samuel M. Payne who died intestate, Walter W. Payne stated that "...sometime during the year of 1915 he [Samue M. Payne] again married one Leona Hollingsworth." The couple are later listed as possessing one brown mare name Dolly, one sorrel mare names Bell and one whitefaced cow named Mott and her calf. "To this union no children were born and it is my understanding that she [Leona Hollingsworth] has given a deed of conveyance to any interest that she might have had in the estate of my deceased brother."

1916-Joe Payne of Knoxville records that Samuel died and was buried in Quanah, Texas. This is incorrect. Records from the Marlow Funeral Home instead indicate that he died at his residence in Marlow. His funeral was paid for by his son, Marvin Payne, a few months after the funeral.

He was buried in the Marlow Cemetery, Section 10, Block 10, Plot 5.

(Research):
Census Listing:

1880 Federal Census

RelationSexMarrRaceAgeBirthplace
Sam M. PAYNE Self M M W 30 MISSOURI Occ: Farming Fa: KY Mo: KY
Ottie PAYNE Wife F M W 34 MISSOURI Occ: Keeping House Fa: TENN Mo: ---
C. Frank PAYNE Son M S W 5 MO Fa: MO Mo: MO
Aubrey H. PAYNE Son M S W 3 MO Fa: MO Mo: MO
Samuel E. PAYNE Son M S W 1 TEXAS Fa: MO Mo: MO
L.C. PAYNE Sister F S W 19 MO Occ: Teaching School Fa: KY Mo: KY

Census Place:E.D. 115, Cooke, Texas
Source:FHL Film 1255298 National Archives Film T9-1298 Page 30

Samuel married Olivia McClanahan on 20 Aug 1873 in Schuyler County, Missouri. Olivia (daughter of Enoch Cox McClanahan and Andromache "America" "Mackey" Mills) was born about 1844 in Schuyler County, Missouri; died on 1 Apr 1910 in Duncan, Stephens County, Oklahoma. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Samuel married Leone Hollinsworth on 18 Jan 1916 in Stephens County, Oklahoma. Leone was born before 1898. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Kenneth Harvey states his full name was William Henry Harrison Payne, being named after the President. Throughout his life, however, he used the intials W.H., although Brooke Payne does record them as W.H.H.

Charles R. Strong found this short biography below in the Duncan, Oklahoma Genealogy Library in early November 1999.

HISTORY OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA, Vol. 2, pp. 250-25l

By Luther B. Hill, A.B., The Lewis Publishing Co., Chicago & New York, 1908

William H. Payne. One of the strong personal factors in the upbuilding of the town of Marlow, has been William H. Payne, whose career has been closely connected with this section of the old Chickasaw Nation and Oklahoma for a quarter of a century. In the town itself, since it was started, he has shown ample confidence and has invested his capital in enterprises that further the welfare of the place. He was the first president of the Bank of Marlow, and is the principal factor in the recently organized Payne Lumber Company. He has also erected a business house and two dwellings in the town.

Mr. Payne's career has not been monotonous nor without interesting change from boyhood to the present. Born in Shelby county, Missouri, April 1, 1851, he grew up through boyhood with educational advantages that resulted from the primitive surroundings of that time and locality. After his sixteenth year he began hiring out for farm work, and turned most of his wages over to his parents, as was the old custom. He lived at home until he was about twenty-five, and then, with team and wagon, pioneered his way to Texas, crossing Red river at Delaware Bend and making his first stop at Loren's ranch in Cooke county. He rented some land of Loren and made a corn and cotton crop, but from 1879 on for several years he followed the cattle trail as a cowboy, and in this occupation first went over the ground in the vicinity of the present town of Duncan. After his marriage he located on a farm in Montague county, Texas, and began housekeeping with an extremely limited equipment. From Montague county he moved into the Chickasaw Nation, and at Velma built up his interests both as farmer and stockman. Five years later he brought his home and business to the vicinity of Marlow, where he has since remained. At this writing he still has a lease and runs some five hundred head of cattle, but it is his intention to close this part of his career and continue along quieter lines of activity. With the opening of the Comanche country Mr. Payne got a claim in what is now Tillman county, and while his family lived there to prove it up, he continued his stock business in the Indian Territory, and without neglecting business finally secured a patent to his land. In addition he has purchased some six hundred acres in the same vicinity, and eight or ten tenants are engaged in the improvement and labor of production on his large farm.

Mr. Payne's personal history connects him with the south. Though he was born in Missouri, his grandfather, William C. Payne, was a native of Loudoun county, Virginia, and had lived a time in Kentucky before moving the family to Missouri. The Paynes were established in Shelby county as early as 1833, and there the grandfather finished his life, passing away in 1865, at seventy-six. His wife was Sarah Hamilton, who also died in Missouri, and their children were: William, who died in Shelby county; Thomas H., father of the Marlow citizen above mentioned; Levi N., who died at Shelbyville, Missouri. Thomas H. Payne, living in a new country and without much assistance from home, gained his schooling in a log cabin and had only a small amount of the world's culture. He became a plain, honest citizen, and a man of worth wherever he lived. During the war he served with the militia in defense of the Union. The last years of his life were spent in Texas, where he died in 1882. He was an active man in the Democratic party. He married Martha Marshall, whose father, Sam M. Marshall, was a Virginian who had first moved to Kentucky and then to Missouri. Martha Payne died at Marlow, Oklahoma, in 1904, having reared a family of ten children, namely: Elizabeth, wife of John O'Neil, of Duncan; Kate, wife of Thomas Joyner, of Oklahoma; Samuel M., of Stephens county; William H., whose career has been sketched; Winfield, near Red Moon, Oklahoma; Levi N., of Wewoka, Oklahoma; Josephine, wife of L. F. McClannahan, of Duncan; Lula, wife of Allison Scott, of Duncan; Thomas B., who died at Duncan, leaving four children; and Walter W., of Duncan.

William H. Payne married, in 1882, Mrs. Hattie A. Long. Her parents were John B. Brown and Adaline Trowbridge, Vermont people, whose other children were: John B., of California; Irene, wife of H. M. Case; Hiram, who died at Velma, Oklahoma; Hale J., of Los Angeles, California; and Joseph R., of Montrose, Colorado. Mrs. Payne was born at Quincy, Illinois, July 28, 1859, and by her first marriage has a son, Ed. H. Long, of Fort Worth, who married Myrtle Payne and has a son, Willie Virgil. Mr. And Mrs. Payne have two children, Joseph R. and Lee B.

From the notes of Ken Harvey:

1910 - Living in Wall Township (Marlow area) of Stephens Co., Oklahoma in 1910. They had a house servant, Pearl Ice (20).

William H. Payne donated a plot of land for the Marlow cemetery. One section was reserved for the Paynes. This Payne section was not large enough and is now full.

Charles Strong found the following obituary at the Oklahoma State Archives:

14 December 1917 DUNCAN BANNER

"Died

News of the death of Uncle Bill Payne, which occurred at home in Marlow Tuesday, came as a shock to numerous friends in Duncan. Death came suddenly and unexpectedly, he being in comparatively good health up to the time of his death.

Mr. Payne was one of the pioneer citizens of this country. He was a man well liked by all, a successful ranchman and business man, and his death has occasioned universal sorrow. He was a brother of W.W. Payne of this city, besides has many other relatives throughout this section.

Funeral services were held Marlow Wednesday, many friends paying a last mark of respect to deceased."

An obituary, found by Lynell Gentry Cordell, was also published in the Marlow Review on Thursday, December 13, 1917.

W.H. Payne Passed Away Monday Even'g

In the passing of William H. Payne, Marlow loses one of her pioneer citizens, a man of sterling worth and unblemished character. Mr. Payne was identified with the financial and executive interest of Marlow for many years. He was regarded with high esteem by all who knew him, and most by those who knew him best. Large in body, mind and heart, he lived daily the life of clean morals and justice. He was remarkably free from the petty quarrels and smallness that mar so many lives. Born in Shelbyville, Shelby county, Missouri, April 1, 1851, he grew to early manhood in the atmosphere of Kentucky hospitality and courtesy that makes northwest Missouri famous. At the age of 21 years he was identified with the Christian church of that place and never discarded the great moral principle of that faith. In the early days he moved to the country at a time when law and life were matters of little concern. In spite of thse enviroments he lived the hardy life of the pioneers and reared his family and built his home that is a credit to the community and worth of his service.

After some illness, he passed away on the 10th day of December, 1917, at his home surrounded by his loved ones whos knew him best and realized the full measure of his loss to them. He lived to the ripe age of 66 years, 8 months, and 9 days and was laid to rest in the cemetery at Marlow, Oklahoma.

His wife and children receive the unstinted sympathy of the entire community in their hour of sorrow, and his presence is missed by all. He died like he lived, free from emnity and bitterness.

The funeral service was held in his home at 3 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 11, 1917, conducted by Elder E. L. Kirtley and his lifelong friends Dr. P. L. Montgomery, T. L. Rose (?), C. Smyth....(remaining names illegible).

In a biography of his brother-in-law, John O'Neill, he was referenced as "William, a farmer at Marlow."

William married Harriet "Hattie" Adaline Brown on 11 Aug 1883 in Montague, Montague County, Texas. Harriet (daughter of John Burns Brown and Adeline Regina Trowbridge) was born on 28 Jul 1859 in Quincy, Adams County, Illinois; died on 12 Jun 1956 in Marlow, Stephens County, Oklahoma; was buried on 14 Jun 1956 in Marlow Cemetery, Marlow, Stephens County, Oklahoma. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Ken Harvey notes that "he was recorded on the 1870 Shelby County, Missouri census and shown as age 17, making his year of birth approximately 1853. He went by the name Scott, and was named after the Civil War General Winfield Scott.

In 1880, he was in Montague, Texas, with his wife and step-children.

A W. C. Payne was recorded, in Montague County Courthouse Marriage Book B, page 471, as marrying Nora Popejoy on 24 Nov. 1887. This could well be our Winfield Scott Payne. The initial "C." could be an error for "S." This ceremony was conducted by J. F. Shelton, Minister of the Gospel. If this is our Scott Payne, it would have been a second marriage. The 1900 census shows him as the father of two children born between 1876 and 1879. Their names are unknown. Lewis Payne vaguely recalled that Scott's wife was named Lou. Kenneth Harvey shows he remarried circa 1894 to Alice (Unknown), born circa 1852 in Texas.

Around 1889, the family moved North to Indian Territory. Scott's wife probably died soon therafter (deduced by Ken Harvey based on the 1900 I.T. census)."

In a biography of his brother, William Henry Harrison Payne, he was referenced as "Winfield, near Red Moon, Oklahoma." In another biography, this one of his brother-in-law, John O'Neill, he was referenced as "Winifred (sic), at Butler, Oklahoma."

(Research):

Census Listings:

1880 Census
Census Place:Precinct 1, Montague, Texas
Source:FHL Film 1255320 National Archives Film T9-1320
Page 36
RelationSexMarrRaceAgeBirthplace
W. Scott PAYNE Self M M W 27 MO Occ: Farmer Fa: KY Mo: KY
A. A. PAYNE Wife F M W 28 TX Occ: House Keeping Fa: KY Mo: KY
Thomas CALAWAY SSon M S W 10 TX Occ: Farmer Fa: ---Mo: TX
Clifton CALAWAY SSon M S W 9 TX Fa: ---Mo: TX
A. CALAWAY SDau F S W 6 TX Fa: ---Mo: TX
Charles CALAWAY SSon M S W 4 TX Fa: ---Mo: TX
PAYNE Other F S W 11 M TX Fa: ---Mo: TX

1900 Census
Oklahoma, Custer County, Barnitz Twp
Enumerated 9 Jun 1900
SD 219 ED 36 Sheet 5A
86-88
Paine, Winfield S Head W M Feb 1853 47 m 21 Mo Ky Ky Farmer
Paine, Alice A Wf W F Apr 1852 48 M 21 9/9 Tx Mo Mo
Paine, Maude May Dtr W F Jun 1880 19 S Tx Mo Tx
Paine, Will H Son W M Jun 1882 17 S Tx Mo Tx Farm Laborer
Paine, Callie S Dtr W F Feb 1884 16 S Tx Mo Tx
Paine, Jessie L Son W M Apr 1886 14 S Tx Mo Tx
Paine, Clarence G Son W M Jun 1888 11 S Tx Mo Tx
Paine, Reubie Dtr WF Nov 1890 9 S IndianTer Mo Tx
Paine, Lizza B Dtr W F Nov 1892 7 S IndianTer Mo Tx

1910 Census
Oklahoma, Custer County, Barnitz Twp
Enumerated 11 May 1910
SD 2 ED 113 Sheet 12A
201-207
Payne, Winfield S Head M W 57 m1 30 Mo Ky Ky Farmer
Payne, Alice A Wf F W 58 m1 30 7/7 Tx Mo Tx
Paine, William H Son M W 26 S Tx Mo Tx Farm
Paine, Beatrice Dtr F W 16 S Ok Mo Tx

Family/Spouse: Alice America Loring. Alice was born on 6 Apr 1852 in Cooke County, Texas; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

In a biography of his brother-in-law, John O'Neill, he was referenced as "Newton, a farmer near Wewoka, Oklahoma."

When she was around six year old, ca 1918-1919, Roonie recalls going from her father's ranch to the big Payne farm, over the hill about 1/2 a mile away. When they arrived, Levi Newton Payne and his family were in two covered wagons starting a trip to Arizona. Her parents had gone to the farm to say their goodbyes. She remembered that one of the young children appeared to be retarded/disabled in some way. The family remained in Arizona, which is where Levi Newton died around 1932. (This story was told to Charles Strong by his mother around 1990).

In the copy of the Will of William H. Payne, he lists Levi as recieving $400. Levi was taught to read by his wife Lizzie, a school teacher. Levi Newton was in the 1889 run and got land near Oklahoma City, but traded it for a horse. (Source: Cova Jean Williams).

He died from acute angina pectoris on December 3, 1932. The informant was F.L. (Fred Lee) Payne. The undertaker was M.L. Gibbons. he was recorded as 76 years, 4 months and 1 day old. (From his death certificate filed in Arizona). A memorial stone was erected over his grave in 1988.

(Research):Census Information:

1880 Census
Census Place:Cooke, Texas
Source:FHL Film 1255298 National Archives Film T9-1298
Page 33 RelationSexMarrRaceAgeBirthplace
Levi PANE Self M M W 24 MO Occ:Farmer Fa: KY Mo: KY
Sarah PANE Wife F M W 27 MO Occ:Keeping House Fa: TENN Mo
: KY
Clarence PANE Son M S W 4 TEX Fa: MO Mo: MO
Willie PANE Son M S W 3 MO Fa: MO Mo: MO

1910 Census
Oklahoma, Washita County, Union Twp
Enumerated 2 Jun 1910 by Thomas Hudgens
SD 5 ED 268 Sheet 22A Stamped 250
301-301
Payne Levi N Hd M W 57 M1 35 8/7 Mo Tenn Ky English Farmer
Payne, Sarah E Wf F W 60 M1 35 8/7 Tx Mo Mo
Payne, Fannie E Dtr F W 24 S Tx Mo Mo
Payne, Ollie J Dtr F W 21 S Tx Mo Mo
Payne, Eugenie W Dtr F W 17 S Ok Mo Mo
Payne, Fermin F Grandson M W 4 S Ok Mo Mo
Payne, Harold N Grandson M W 3 S Tx Mo Mo

Levi married Sarah Elizabeth McClanahan on 28 Feb 1875 in Shelby County, Missouri. Sarah (daughter of Enoch Cox McClanahan and Andromache "America" "Mackey" Mills) was born on 8 Jun 1849 in Schuyler County, Missouri; died on 21 Jan 1921 in Cruce, Stephens County, Oklahoma. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Not on Brooke Payne's list of the children of Thomas Hamilton Payne and Martha Jane Marshall. However, in the 1908 biography of her brother, William H.H. Payne, cited the children of Thomas Hamilton Payne as: "Elizabeth, wife of John O'Neil, of Duncan; Kate, wife of Thomas Joyner, of Oklahoma; Samuel M., of Stephens county; William H., whose career has been sketched; Winfield, near Red Moon, Oklahoma; Levi N(ewton), of Wewoka, Oklahoma; JOSEPHINE, wife of L. F. McClannahan, of Duncan." In another biography, this one of brother-in-law John O'Neill, she was referenced as "Gallic (sic), wife of Fred McClannahan, a carpenter and builder who lives at Holbrook, Arizona."

On the 1860 census, she was listed as "Pain, Catherine J. 3 F Mo" instead of as Caladonia Josephine. In 1870, she was simply listed as Carrie.

One day Callie commented, after hearing a story told by her grand-nephew Lewis Adair Payne, that she would "have to tell [Vice-President] Marshall about this!" Ken Harvey was not sure if this was a true story, of just Callie being playful with Lewis. It appears, however, that Vice President Thomas Riley Marshall was indeed a second cousin of Caldonia and her siblings.

Ken also writes that it was understood that three McClanahans (Olivia's siblings) married three Paynes (Samuel's siblings) in this generation.

Ken thinks her children went to Quanah High School, and that she dies in Quanah. However, as they lived in Oklahoma in 1900, and Arizona in 1910, this may not be correct.

Caldonia married Lafayette Fred McClanahan on 4 Aug 1878 in Shelby County, Missouri. Lafayette (son of Enoch Cox McClanahan and Andromache "America" "Mackey" Mills) was born on 7 Aug 1852 in Schuyler County, Missouri; died about 1924 in Arizona; was buried in Holbrook Cemetery, Holbrook, Navajo County, Arizona. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Not on Brooke Payne's list of the children of Thomas Hamilton Payne and Martha Jane Marshall.

1880 - An "L. C. Payne" was recorded living with her married brother, Samuel Marshall Payne, in Cooke Co., Texas on 7 June 1880 where she was listed as [teaching school] at the age of 19.

In this census reference to L. C. Payne the age is unclear, and could have been 17 years.

1884 - On her marriage certificate in Montague County Courthouse Marriage Book B, page 183, her name is spelled Lula Payne. The ceremony was conducted by W. E. Wilson, Ordained Minister.

In biography of her brother William Henry Harrison Payne, she is listed as "Lula, wife of Allison Scott, of Duncan."In another biography, this one of her brother-in-law, John O'Neill, she was referenced as "Lulu, wife of Allison Scott, a retired railroad man at Fort Worth, Texas."

In his Personal Journal, Lewis Adair Payne wrote on March 21, 1936: "Martha [Scott], Marie [Scott], and Florence [Scott] came back out for an hour or so, I then went with them to Aunt Hatties [Payne nee Brown] to get Aunt Lou [Scott nee Payne]. Then to Duncan. Dinner at Bessies. They home and I to the airport."

(Research):

Census Information:

1900 Census
Indian Territory, Picken Chicasaw, T1 NR 5W
Enumerated 25 Jun 1900 Wm F. McIntyre
SD 73 (lined through) ED 163 Sheet 13A Stamped 289
211-214
Payne, Walter Hd W M March 1867 33 M 5 Mo Ky Ky Farmer
Payne, Gertrude Wf W F Aug 1876 23 M 5 3/2 Tx Mo Mo
Payne, Emma Blanche Dtr W F Nov 1895 4 S Chickasaw Nation Mo Tx
Payne, Harry Carrol Son W M Feb 1897 3 S Ok Mo Tx
Payne, Mary Ethel Dtr W F Sep 1899 8/12 S Ok Mo Tx
Payne, Martha J Mother W F March 1826 74 Wd 1/1 Ky Va Va
212-215
Payne, Thomas B Hd W M Nov 1864 35 M2 Mo Ky Ky Farmer
Payne, Lilly Wf W F Nov 1878 22 M 2 2/2 Tx MO MO
Payne, Thomas H Son W M March 1893 7 S Chickasaw Nation Mo Tx
Payne, Marvin C Son W M Sept 1899 2/12 S Chickasaw Nation Mo Tx
213-216
James, Sarah Hd W F 1858 42 Wd 5/3 Mo Mo Mo Farmer
James Edna Dtr W F 1883 17 S Tx Mo Mo
James, Julia Dtr W F 1884 15 S Tx Mo Mo
James, Jessie Son W M 1893 6 S Chickasaw Nation Mo Mo
214-217
Scott, Alisie Hd W M Dec 1853 46 m 16 Indiana Indiana Ill Farmer
Scott, Lula Wf W F March 1862 38 M 16 6/6 Mo Ky Ky
Scott, Claude Son W M Jan 1886 14 S Tx Ind Mo
Scott, Orville Son W M May 1887 12 S Tx Ind Mo
Soctt, Florence Dtr W F July 1889 10 S Tx Ind Mo
Scott, Lindsey Son W M Oct 1890 9 S Tx Ind Mo
Scott, Martha Dtr W F Oct 1894 5 S Tx Ind Mo
Scott, Irene Dtr W F Oct 1897 2 S Ok Ind Mo

1910 Census
Texas, Tarrant County, Fort Worth
Enumerated 19 Apr 1910
SD 12 ED 115 Sheet 8A Stamped 95
818-162-147
Scott, Allison Hd M W 56 M1 20 Indiana Tn Indiana Conductor Railroad
Scott, L.O. Wf F W 69 M1 20 8/7 Mo Ky Ky
Scott, H.C. Son M W 24 S Tx Ind Mo Farming
Scott, Orville Son M W 22 S Tx Ind Mo Driver Express Co
Scott, L.A. Son M W 19 S Tx Ind MO Car Cleaner Railroad
Scott, Florence Dtr F W 20 S Tx Ind Mo Dressmaker Dry Goods Store
Scott, Martha Dtr F W 15 S Tx Ind MO
Scott, Irene Dtr F W 11 S Ok Ind Mo
Scott, Marie Dtr F W 8 S Ok Ind Mo

Louise married Allison Scott on 30 Nov 1884 in Montague, Montague County, Texas. Allison was born in Dec 1853 in Indiana; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

The 1890 Chickasaw Census showed: Payne, T B & Wife Husband's Age 26 Wife's Age 19 She was listed as Chickasaw by blood, and he was shown as Chickasaw by marriage.

Fay Yeager cites "Indian Pioneer History" volume 40 as saying "Thomas Payne was deputy Marshall of Ardmore 1891-1892." Ardmore is in Carter County, adjoining Stephens County.

On the 1896 Chickasaw Census Roll for Pickens County, Velma Township, Indian Territory, Thomas B Payne is shown as a 34 year old male, with his tribal enrollment taking place in 1897 in Pickens County (No. 77). He was shown as the son of Thomas H. Payne and Martha J. Payne, both noncitizens. His son, Thomas H. Payne, is shown as being 5 years old, 1/32 Chickasaw by blood, with a tribal enrollment also in Pickens County (No. 20), and shown as the son of Thomas B. Payne and Mollie Payne (deceased), a resident of Pickens County.

An unnamed baby, a child of Thomas Payne, is buried (undated) in Section 9, Block 15, Plot 7, Marlow Cemetery, Oklahoma. It is not known if it was a boy or girl. Could this have been a child of Thomas and Molly? The three of them are buried side by side.

Abstracts from the Duncan Eagle Vol. 12, 11 Oct. 1906. Local Mention:

Mr. & Mrs. Rufe Deck came down from Chickasha to attend the funeral of Tom Payne who died this morning at 6.

Died this morning at the residence of John O'Neill, Tom Payne, after a long and lingering illness like consumption. He owned a fine farm near Arthur where he lived with his family. He leaves a wife & 4 children, the oldest, a son who is attending school in Decatur, TX. He will be buried in the Marlow Cemetery. He was a bro. to Mrs. John O'Neill, Walter & Wm. Payne of Marlow. (Courtesy of Lynell Cordell).

Charles Strong reports that Thomas Bunker Payne died without a will. He owned some 300 acres of land that he had been alloted as being a Chickasaw by Marriage, so it took some time to settle his estate due to his children being minors. He cites Stephens County OK Probate Case #290. Walter W. Payne was guardian and executor of his estate.

The Marlow Review
October 1907
Monument Unveiled
On Sunday afternoon in the biting wind the Duncan camp W. O. W. unveiled the beautiful monument erected by that order at the grave of Thos. Payne. The attendance was large the weather considered. The beautiful ceremony was carried out by the Duncan camp and a short talk made by G. W. Siever, C. C. of Marlow camp. The monument is imposing being the largest one in the cemetery.
11-15-07 Pg. C1

(Courtesy Lynell Gentry Cordell)

In a biography of his brother-in-law, John O'Neill, he was referenced as "Thomas, who was a rancher and died at Duncan at the age of forty-three."

(Research):Census Information:

1900 Census
Indian Territory, Picken Chicasaw, T1 NR 5W
Enumerated 25 Jun 1900 Wm F. McIntyre
SD 73 (lined through) ED 163 Sheet 13A Stamped 289

211-214
Payne, Walter Hd W M March 1867 33 M 5 Mo Ky Ky Farmer
Payne, Gertrude Wf W F Aug 1876 23 M 5 3/2 Tx Mo Mo
Payne, Emma Blanche Dtr W F Nov 1895 4 S Chickasaw Nation M
o Tx
Payne, Harry Carrol Son W M Feb 1897 3 S Ok Mo Tx
Payne, Mary Ethel Dtr W F Sep 1899 8/12 S Ok Mo Tx
Payne, Martha J Mother W F March 1826 74 Wd 1/1 Ky Va Va
212-215
Payne, Thomas B Hd W M Nov 1864 35 M2 Mo Ky Ky Farmer
Payne, Lilly Wf W F Nov 1878 22 M 2 2/2 Tx MO MO
Payne, Thomas H Son W M March 1893 7 S Chickasaw Nation Mo Tx
Payne, Marvin C Son W M Sept 1899 2/12 S Chickasaw Nation Mo Tx
213-216
James, Sarah Hd W F 1858 42 Wd 5/3 Mo Mo Mo Farmer
James Edna Dtr W F 1883 17 S Tx Mo Mo
James, Julia Dtr W F 1884 15 S Tx Mo Mo
James, Jessie Son W M 1893 6 S Chickasaw Nation Mo Mo
214-217
Scott, Alisie Hd W M Dec 1853 46 m 16 Indiana Indiana Ill Farmer
Scott, Lula Wf W F March 1862 38 M 16 6/6 Mo Ky Ky
Scott, Claude Son W M Jan 1886 14 S Tx Ind Mo
Scott, Orville Son W M May 1887 12 S Tx Ind Mo
Soctt, Florence Dtr W F July 1889 10 S Tx Ind Mo
Scott, Lindsey Son W M Oct 1890 9 S Tx Ind Mo
Scott, Martha Dtr W F Oct 1894 5 S Tx Ind Mo
Scott, Irene Dtr W F Oct 1897 2 S Ok Ind Mo

Thomas married Mary T. "Mollie" Hardwick on 11 Jul 1891 in Pickens County, Chickasaw Nation, Indian Territory. Mary (daughter of John David "Dave" Hardwick and Sarah Frances Dunephin) was born on 23 Oct 1872 in Indian Territory; died on 20 Jun 1893 in Marlow, Indian Territory; was buried in Marlow, Stephens County, Oklahoma. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Thomas married Lillian James about Feb 1899 in Indian Territory. Lillian was born on 19 Sep 1877 in Texas; died on 22 Nov 1910 in Stephens County, Oklahoma; was buried in Marlow Cemetery, Marlow, Stephens County, Oklahoma. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Ken Harvey writes that "His middle name has also been shown as Winchell, however Winkle is the middle name shown on this tombstone, and has been verified by Willie Lee Payne.

He ran cattle on land leased from Indian Territory (Oklahoma) Indians. It cost him ten cents an acre. He made a great deal of money out of this. He and his brother-in-law started a bank in Duncan. The checks were yellow and easily spotted in a pile.

In a biography of his brother-in-law, John O'Neill, he was referenced as "Walter, a farmer and rancher at Duncan."

Duncan Weekly Banner
Friday, Jan. 19, 1917
W. W. Payne is shipping out several cars of cattle today. They are consigned to Oklahoma City and Wichita markets.

1919-Walter W. Payne, resident of Duncan, files an Affidavit of Heirship concerning his older brother Samuel's affairs. Samuel had died intestate nine years previously.

1920-A Lodger in the home of Sarah Garrison of Alabama, in the King Township of Duncan. His occupation was listed as Farmer, Home Farm.

1929-Walter W. Payne is buried in Section 10, Block 10, Plot 6, Marlow Cemetery, Oklahoma."

Duncan Eagle, Tuesday, March 28, 1929

Walter Payne Answers Call Brief Illness Fatal to Pioneer Rancher of Stephens County. Funeral Services This Thursday.

Funeral services were held this Thursday afternoon for Walter W. Payne, pioneer ranchman of this section, who passed away early Wednesday morning. Services were at the First Methodist Church at 2 o'clock, with Rev. J. J. Ward officiating, assisted by Rev. A. P. Johnson.

Burial was in the Marlow Cemetery. Arrangements were in charge of Beeson Grantham.

Mr. Payne had suffered an attack of acute indigestion on Monday. He appeared to recover from this attack but was not feeling in the best of health, and decided to go to Sulphur for treatment. He left Tuesday, accompanied by his daughter, Mrs Jack Benton, and Mr. Benton. He was feeling much better Tuesday evening, and Mr. Benton returned to Duncan. Mrs. Benton remained with her father.

Early Wednesday morning Mr. Payne suffered a second and more serious attack, resulting in his death at 2:30 o'clock. The deceased was born in Missouri, coming to what is now Stephens County when he was 20 years of age. He has since lived most of the time at his ranch 10 miles east and 3 miles north of Duncan.

He was also active in the affairs of this city. He was associated with the late J. D. Wade and J. M. Armstrong in the Duncan National Bank and also served on the city council at an early day. Mr. Payne had been engaged in the raising of beef cattle at his ranch during the past few years. He recently purchased two Hereford bulls that ranked high at the fat stock show at Ft. Worth, said to be two of the finest beef animals ever brought to Stephens County.

Six children, four daughters and two sons, survive. The daughters are Mrs. Ethel Benton of this city; Mrs Hoyt Hardin, 609 Maple Avenue; Mrs Vera Roberts of Oklahoma City; and Mrs. Louise Birnie of Shawnee. The sons are Carl and Dukie Payne, who lived with him on the ranch. There is one brother, Newton Payne, of Chandler, Arizona, and one sister, Mrs. A. Scott, of Ft. Worth. Seven grandchildren also survive. Mr. Payne was a member of the Masonic and Woodmen lodges, and of the Methodist Church.

A more detailed obituary was also published in The Duncan Banner on Friday, March 29, 1929, page 7. This can be seen on his page on familysearch.org, and was posted by Marilyn Simmons.

(Research):
Census Listings:

1900 census
Stephens Co. OK (IT) ED 163 pg. 13A
#211/214
Payne, Walter, Mar. 1867, 33, married 5 yrs., MO KY KY
Gertrude, wife, Aug. 1876, 23, 3 children/2 living, TX MO MO
Emma Blanch, dau., Nov. 1895, 4, IT
Harry Carrol, son, Feb. 1897, 3, IT
Mary Ethel, dau, Sept. 1899, 8/12, IT
Martha, mother, Mar. 1826, 74, Wd., 1 child/1 living, KY VA VA

His wife Gertrude and daughter Emma died prior to the 1910 census, and Walter can be found with his sons Carl and John E "Dukey" sharing the home of his recently widowed sister-in-law, Lillie James Payne. His youngest daughter, four year old Louisia, was living with her maternal grandparents, William and Mollie Gentry, listed as "Layease, age 4." His older daughters, Mary Ethel (age 11), Vera (age 9), and Virginia (age 7), were enrolled at the St. Joseph Catholic Boarding School in Chickasha, Grady County.

1910 Federal Census
Oklahoma, Stephens County, Park Township, District 240 215-215
Payne, Luellie Head F W 32 Wd 3/3 Texas Kentucky Missouri
Payne, Maryan (Clyde) Son M W 10 S Oklahoma Missouri Texas
Payne, John P(aul) Son M W 9 S Oklahoma Missouri Texas
Payne, Margrit Daughter F W 6 S Oklahoma Missouri Texas
Payne, Walter Brother in Law M W 42 Wd Missouri Missouri Missouri Rancher
Payne, Carl Nephew M W 13 S Oklahoma Missouri Texas
Payne, John E. Nephew M W 5 S Oklahoma Missouri Texas

Walter married Permelia Gertrude Gentry about 1894 in Stephens County, Indian Territory. Permelia (daughter of William Miller Gentry and Mary "Molly" Evelyn Mounts) was born in Aug 1876 in Texas; died on 11 Sep 1906 in Stephens County, Oklahoma; was buried in Marlow Cemetery, Marlow, Stephens County, Oklahoma. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Walter married Ida Mae Pickle about 1907. Ida was born on 1 Oct 1892; died on 2 Nov 1925 in Oklahoma. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Kathleen Moch noted that she married Isaac GIBBONS on 31 July 1861.

Notes:

Kathleen Moch noted that she married Thomas Taylor on 25 Sept 1867.

Notes:

Shown as Anna on the 1870 census?

Notes:

Resided in Shelby County, MO as of 1890.

Notes:

Living with her grandparents, William and Sally Payne at the time of the 1860 Shelby County census. Age 4, born in Missouri. Said to have married, on 17 Jun 1890 in Shelby County, MO, James Monroe Castle.

Notes:

Resided in Shelby County, MO as of 1890.

Notes:

Resided in LaFayette County, Missouri as of 1890.

James married Lou A. Smock on 7 Apr 1886 in Shelby County, Missouri. Lou was born after 1858; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

died young.

Notes:

SSDI search result: Annie Sparks born 14 May 1884, died June 1967 (SS#447-34-9349) Death benefits sent to OK City, OK 73107.

Annie had a considerable library and she gave Lewis Adair Payne a set of Shakespeare's plays. The volumes were bound in rococo leather and printed on thin India paper. These had been given to her as a gift by her lawyer. Lewis was supposed to inherit her set of Dickens books but they went elsewhere.

She had a beautiful large cut glass punch bowl which was thought to have been stolen for a long time. One day it was discovered in the local priest's home. Apparently she had lent it for a church event and both parties forgot about it.

She died in poverty having lost her money through lack of financial acuity. She was a very generous and thoughtful person.

At the time of the 1930 census, she was listed as follows:

303-69-71 Sparks, Annie Head 0 $5000 F W 45 D No Yes Texas Northern Ireland Missouri Yes Manager Estate Employed 3N -----------, Mary P Daughter F W 16 S Yes Yes Oklahoma North Carolina Texas None

Annie married James Rufus Sparks on 27 Nov 1907 in Chickasha, Grady County, Oklahoma. James (son of Clingman "T.L" Sparks and Sarah Adeline ???) was born on 11 Aug 1867 in Caldwell County, North Carolina; died on 14 Aug 1946 in Oklahoma; was buried in Duncan Municipal Cemetery, Duncan, Stephens County, Oklahoma. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Known as Birdie O'Neill. She was a witness at her sister Annie's wedding. She ran her father's department store in Duncan and died unmarried, fairly young. This store building later became the Burr Store.

Thursday 7 Apr 1921 DUNCAN EAGLE

Died Yesterday at Okla. City

Miss Byrd O'Niell (sic) died at 4:30 o'clock Tuesday afternoon at a sanitarium in Oklahoma City, where she had been about three months. While her death was not wholly unexpected, the news was a distinct shock to the many friends of the deceased, who was a most excellent and beloved young woman.

The deceased had spent most of her life in Duncan and by her amiable and charming traits of character had won and held a large circle of warm friends, who are deeply grieved over her demise. Miss O'Niell (sic) was a graduate of the Catholic seminary at Guthrie. Of her immediate family she is survived by one sister, Mrs. J.R. Sparks.

The remains will be brought to this city this afternoon and interment will be in the cemetery here.

The remains will arrive on the 4:30 train this afternoon and will be taken to the home of Mr. and Mrs. Sparks. Funeral services will be held at the Catholic church at 10 o'clock Thursday morning.

Notes:

In 1910, it APPEARS that Frank was living in Bell County, Texas, and married to an Estelle. They were living, along with her two children from a prior marriage, in the boarding home of George Hughs.

Kenneth Harvey writes that "Frank was believed to have married his first wife in order to give her unborn son a name. He claimed the child was his but no one believed him in later years. He was known to be that sort of generous type of man. The mother died shortly after the marriage. At the time of the 1920 census, he was living with his brother-in-law in Duncan on Pine Street.

His sister Effie then raised the little boy that was believed to have been adopted. There were no papers involved. He was somewhat difficult youngster and was later sent to a military academy. He was not really very popular in the extended family-actually he was rather disliked. Afterwards he drifted to California and lost contact with the Payne family.

Peggy had been married before and had a son who was a gambler. He ended up owning the Wade Hotel in Duncan as a result. She had a daughter who lived out in Hollywood.

Spent thirty days in jail for allegedly making whisky during prohibition. He had not actually been making it but merely in the vicinity and the authorities knew that-they simply wanted more information. He refused to squeal however about who the real perpetrators were and as a result accepted the blame.

He didn't like cowboying. He would not stand for drunken brawls where he worked. Frank was a big man.

Frank is buried in Section 10, Block 10, Plot 2, Marlow Cemetery, Oklahoma. It is recorded that he died in Wichita Falls, Texas. (Dorothy Pattison, MCCLANAHAN FAMILY HISTORY (unpublished))."

(Research):

Census Listings:

1910 Census
Texas, Bell, 2 Wd Temple, ED 112
Payne, Frank W Lodger M W 46 M1 7 Missouri MO VA Commercial Trader Clothing Payne, Estelle E Lodger F 2 42 M2 7 2/2 Mississippi Kentucky Georgia
Keach, Harold G Lodger M W 13 S Tx Tx Tx
Keach, Georgia D Lodger F W 11 S Tx Tx Tx

1920 Census
Oklahoma, Stephens County, Duncan
Haycraft H.S. Head RM W 48 Missouri Missouri Missouri Truck Owner
Haycraft, Effie Wife F W 36 M Tx Missouri Missouri
Payne, ---Brother-in-law M W 44 Missouri Missouri Missouri Real Estate
Payne, Clyde F Nephew M W 4 S Tx US US (Later called Payne Haycraft)

1930 Census
Payne, Frank Head Rent $22 M W 54 M age 1rst M 34 Mo Mo Mo Casing Oil Field Payne, Peggy J. Wife F W 40 M age 1rst M 37 Ok Ok Tx Cashier Cafe
Ireland, Buck H. Stepson M W 19 Ok Ok Ok Waiter Cafe
Coffey, Lavina J. Stepdaughter F W 10 Ok Ok Ok

Notes:

He was living with Sarah and their two children in either Richland or Rock Creek township, Stephens Co., Oklahoma in 1910. Ref: DWL 116/Family 116

Aubrey H. Payne, age 42, and his wife, Janie, were living in Marshall, Texas in 1919. [Payne, Walter W AFFADAVIT OF HEIRSHIP OF SAMUEL MARSHALL PAYNE WHO DIED INTESTATE]

As of the 1930 census, the family appeared to be living in Donna Texas. The household was headed by Jennie S. Payne, age 49, divorced. Aubrey H, age 50, was listed last, and as a boarder? He was also shown as divorced.

Aubrey married Sarah Jane Williams about 1904. Sarah was born on 22 Mar 1881 in Texas; died on 3 Aug 1964 in Eureka Springs, Carroll County, Arkansas; was buried in I.O.O.F. Cemetery, Eureka Springs, Carroll County, Arkansas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

On the 1880 Cook County, Texas census, he was listed as "Billie."

Sammy's body never grew and he died unmarried at a young age. Shortly before his death he had a good pair of riding shoes made for him which were later worn by a succession of his small nephews and nieces, ending with Lewis Payne. Sammy used to ride around on a very small pony.

Notes:

Kenneth Harvey wrote the following brief biography of Marvin Walter Payne: Marvin was named after the Methodist Bishop Marvin whom his mother particularly respected.

Marvin was about twelve years old when his photograph was taken in a family group with his parents. This photograph survives and is in the collection of Lewis Adair Payne (1997).

As a teenager he was out on the trail cattle herding with his father when he became very ill. Totally incapacitated he was left to lie in agony on the bedrolls in the accompanying chuck wagon. They were miles from anywhere. He later believed that the severe bouncing and bucking of the wagon as it slowly and labourously moved across the untamed countryside saved his life. Much later on it was proved that he had in fact survived a burst appendix; not a very common occurance. Most die from it. He was to say in later years that "I left my appendix on the Western Trail and the cattle walked over it."

He worked as a cowboy and attended high school part-time until he was twenty.

There is another photograph, this time of his high school graduation in from Quanah High School in May 1901. This shows him holding his sheepskin diploma-no "mere paper" at that time! The photograph shows five girls dressed like bridesmaids and one boy with a flower in his button hole, all students surrounding a man who is presumably the school principal. Marvin, the solitary boy (young adult), is at the rear (apparently education was not a very macho activity among the youth of the town). His younger sister Effie stands to his immediate right. Marvin read an essay to the assembled parents on "Closing Events of the Nineteenth Century." His sister Effie read an essay on "Duty." One of the other girls present was a Payne double first cousin, Lula Pearl McClanahan (daughter of Fred Lafayette McClanahan and Calla Payne). She read an essay on "Courage." Other graduating students were Bettie Carter, Cora B. Matlock, and a Miss Johnson. A long term correspondence with Miss Gabie E. Betts, later Burton (1871-?) begins after Marvin graduates from Quanah High School. Miss Gabie, as she refers to herself, used to live in Quanah where she taught in the elementary School. She was known as one of the best primary school teachers in the Panhandle. She later moved to teach at Clarendon College. She addresses Marvin in very affectionate terms--indeed as her son. The letters were saved by Grace after Marvin's death, and passed down to Mary Ann Mounts Payne.

Marvin graduated in 1903 from the Metropolitan Business School.

Marvin married Grace Gentry in 1907 and the young couple lived with her parents for some years in Oklahoma until they moved back to Quanah, Texas. He then worked there in a lumber company from about 1912.

On his father's death in 1916 the family farm was mortgaged and the family divided the proceeds. Marvin fell heir to the mortgage and immediately rented it out to help pay off the mortgage . He now worked as a book-keeper for a wholesale company in Chickasha, circa. 1920, and then moved back to Duncan where he was involved in a restaurant. He didn't stay long at that and he was to become the manager of the Chickasha Cotton Oil Mill in 1921. He then lost this job when the mill was sold during the depression. The family returned to live on the farm, four miles S.W. of Marlow, on Hell Creek. Unfortunately times were very difficult and he could not keep up the payments. The family property was repossessed by the mortgage company. The local official delivering the eviction notice, in about 1937, was a friend and he was to say "Marvin I hate to do this to you." The poor man's only response was "You have to, its your job." Marvin put the papers on the kitchen table in the house and never looked at them. The whole tragic experience hit him very hard indeed and really robbed him of all subsequent motivation. They now put the family furniture in storage but could not even keep up these payments; consequently it too was all lost. To add insult to injury, some years later oil was discovered ont he farm and today (1997) there is a sign which says; "Chevron USA Inc, W.M. Payne Lease Sec 35-2N-8W."

Grace's mother was unable to keep up payment on her own home mortgage, and sold the residence to her daughter and Marvin for a dollar. The families moved in with Mary on Spruce road. It was not long, however, before Marvin was unable to keep up those payments, and that house was lost as well. It was a bitter time. At some point the family returned to the old Marlow farmstead which they had been forced to leave, paying rent to live there. Marvin eventually went to work with a cattle auction company.

According to Fay Payne Yeager, Thomas R. Marshall (Vice President of the United States) was a cousin of Martha Jane Marshall Payne. He stayed in the home of Marvin and Grace (Gentry) Payne while on a speaking tour of Oklahoma. He said he remembered attending family reunions with Martha when he was younger.

M. W. Payne, Long Resident Here Dies

Duncan Banner Monday Jan. 5, 1947 Pg. 1 Transcribed by C. R. Strong 11-29-2003

Marvin Walter Payne, 1106 Oak, died at 10 o'clock Sunday night in a local hospital after a lengthy illness. He was a retired accountant.
The funeral service will be held at the Beeson Grantham Funeral Home chapel at 3:30 p. m. Tuesday, with the Rev. John A Callan (sic), pastor of the First Methodist Church, and the Rev. Thurmond George, pastor of the First Baptist Church, officiating.
Born in Gainesville, Tex., Pay ne came to Duncan in 1904 and had been a resident here for more than 40 years.
Surviving are the widow; three sons, Chad In Berlin, Germany, Lewis Adair of Stillwater, and Marvin W. jr., Duncan; one daughter, Mrs. Bob Thompson, Pampa, Tex;, one brother, Aubry (sic) H., Muleshoe, Tex; and five grandchildren.
Pallbearers are Rich Edwards, Bill Boydston, J. B. McLendon, Leroy Tucker, Oscar Young, J. D. Walker, Leonard Bumpas, and H. C. Allen.

Marvin Payne is Buried in Marlow From an unidentified Duncan, OK newspaper, dated 1948

Death took a longtime resident of Stephens County this week after he had been ill for many years. Marvin Walter Payne died in a Duncan Hospital Sunday night. He had lived in Duncan and vicinity most of the time since 1904 and will be remembered as the manager of the Duncan Cotton Oil Mill, a position which he held for many years. Payne was born in Gainsville, Texas. When he was a child, his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Payne, moved to Quannah, Texas, where they owned one of the big ranches in that part of the country. Payne was reared and educated in Quannah. He came to Duncan as a young man. He married Grace Ellen Gentry of Arthur in 1907.

He was in Chickasha for many years where he was connected with the Chickasha Cotton Oil Mill. In the early thirties he became ill and moved back to the old homeplace northwest of Duncan. He is survived by his widow and his four children, Chad who is now stationed with the Army in Berlin, Germany; Lewis Adair, Stillwater; Marvin W. Jr., Duncan, and Mrs Bob Thompson, Pampa, Texas. Funeral Services were held at the Beeson-Grantham Funeral chapel on Tuesday afternoon with the Rev. John A Callan of the First Methodist Church and the Rev. Thurmond George of the First Baptist Church officiating. He was buried in the Marlow Cemetery.

NOTE No Headstone in Marlow Cemetery, but known to be in Sect 10 Blk 10 (Lot 5?), Believed to be b.1-17-1881 d. 1-4-1948

(Research):World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918
Name: Marvin Walter Payne
City: Chickasha
County: Grady
State: Oklahoma
Birth Date: 17 Jan 1881
Race: White
Roll: 1851777
DraftBoard: 1
Age: 37
Occupation: Book keeper
Employer: J.D. Turner & Co., Chickasha, Grady Co. OK
Nearest relative: Grace Payne, Chickasha, Grady Co. OK
Height/Build: ------
Color of Eyes/Hair: Brown/Brown

Census Information:

1930 census Stephens Co. OK King Twp., ED 69-7
Sheet 13B 511 So. 8th (?)
217/233
Payne, Marvin W., MW 49 M 26 TX MO MO
Payne, Grace, wife FW 41 M 18 TX TN WV
Payne, Chadwick, son MW 22 S OK TX TX
Payne, Mary, dau. FW 17 S OK TX TX
Payne, Lewis, son MW 16 OK TX TX
Payne, Marvin, Jr., son MW 4 9/12 S OK TX TX

They owned their home, with a value of $2000, and owned a radio as well.

(Courtesy of Lynell Cordell)

Marvin married Grace Ellen Gentry on 22 Jan 1907 in Stephens County, Oklahoma. Grace (daughter of William Miller Gentry and Mary "Molly" Evelyn Mounts) was born on 3 Nov 1888 in Decatur, Wise County, Texas; died on 16 Dec 1966 in Stillwater, Payne County, Oklahoma; was buried in Duncan, Stephens County, Oklahoma. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Effie's date of birth is given as 1883 by the Ancestral File database.

There is another photograph, this time of his high school graduation in from Quanah High School in May 1901. This shows him holding his sheepskin diploma-no "mere paper" at that time! The photograph shows five girls dressed like bridesmaids and one boy with a flower in his button hole, all students surrounding a man who is presumably the school principal. Marvin, the solitary boy (young adult), is at the rear (apparently education was not a very macho activity among the youth of the town). His younger sister Effie stands to his immediate right. Marvin read an essay to the assembled parents on "Closing Events of the Nineteenth Century." His sister Effie read an essay on "Duty." One of the other girls present was a Payne double first cousin, Lula Pearl McClanahan (daughter of Fred Lafayette McClanahan and Calla Payne). She read an essay on "Courage."

Effie raised the boy that her brother Frank was believed to have adopted.

She never had any other children.

The Comanche Reflex
Comanche, I. T.
(Comanche, Stephens County, Oklahoma)
Friday, August 11, 1905
MISSES ADA MCCALLAHAN and EFFIE PAYNE of Duncan were in the city. Miss McCallahan has been elected to fill the vacancy occasioned by the resignation of MISS FANNY BAKER.

Effie married Hugh S. Haycraft on 18 Jul 1909 in Marlow, Stephens County, Oklahoma. Hugh was born in 1878 in Missouri; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Parentage assumed based on name and dates of birth and death. He is buried in Section 10, Block 9, Plot 8, Marlow cemetery.

Notes:

Her parentage is assumed based on her name and the dates of her birth and death. She is buried in Section 10, Block 9, Plot 7 of the Marlow cemetery.

Notes:

A Military Discharge of a Joseph Ray Payne is recorded in Stephens County Courthouse Book 3, page 544. Not viewed.

In the petition of probate of his Will, filed in Stephens County Court, it is stated that Joseph Ray Payne died testate in Marlow, Stephens County, Oklahoma, on the 18th day of August, 1965, and that at the time of his death he was an actual bona fide resident of Marlow, and that he left surviving him the following:

Mabel Payne, wife, Marlow, OK Joseph Ray Payne, Jr, son, Marlow, OK Mary G. Purdum, daughter, c/o Woods, Inc., Oklahoma City, OK William T. Payne, son, 105 Washington Street, #2-A, Broken Arrow, OK Joseph Ellis Van Scoy, grandson, 2341 NW 31st Street, Oklahoma City, OK Philip Dale Van Scoy, grandson, 2341 NW 31st Street, Oklahoma City, OK

Joe (Ray) Payne, Sr. Local Prominent Resident Is Dead

Obit provided by Mary Gweliolyn (Marylyn) [Payne] Wade. Was a Xerox copy, apparently from the Marlow newspaper. Could not find one in the Duncan Banner. Transcribed by C. R. Strong 11-29-2003

Joseph Ray Payne, Sr. lifetime Marlow resident active many years in farming and ranching, died Wednesday, Aug. 18, 12:30 a.m., in the local hospital. He had suffered ill health for some time. Born in Marlow on July 16, 1892, Payne was 73 years old. He lived here all his life and attended local schools. His marriage was in Marlow on July 28, 1911, to Mable(sic) Lyle.
Prominent in the farming and ranching fields for many years, in more recent years he had been retired. He was a member of the local First Methodist church. The family home is located at 511 N. Broadway.
Survivors include his wife of the home, two sons, Joseph R. Payne, Jr., Marlow, and William T.(Thomas) Payne, Tulsa, and one daugher, Mrs. Mary Lynn Purdum, Oklahoma City. Also there are seven grandchildren and three great grandchildren.
Funeral will be held Friday, August 20, at 10:30 a.m. in the First Methodist church, conducted by Rev. Clarence Ball, pastor. Burial will be in Marlow Cemetery with Callaway-Smith Funeral Home in charge of arrangements.
Bearers will be John M. Briscoe, Jr., Jim Thompson, Ralph Abney, Jack Thompson, Seth Thompson, Ira Green, Hugh Gatlin, and Tip Graham.

NOTE Headstone in Marlow Cemetery, Sect 11 Blk 59, (Lot 4), states -- b. 7-16-1892 d. 8-18-1965

Joseph married Mabel Lyles on 5 Apr 1943 in Marlow, Stephens County, Oklahoma. Mabel was born about 1893; died about 1977. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

As of 1956, he was living at 514 West Gilkey, Marlow, Oklahoma. This was also the residence of his mother, Hattie (Brown) Payne. As the Will of Hattie Payne does not dispose of the home, it is not known if she was living with her son in his home, or if it was her home but had been transferred to Lee prior to her death. Also living in the home on West Gilkey with Hattie and Lee were Hattie Mildred Shaw, granddaughter, and Kay Denice Shaw, Great Granddaughter.

Hattie left each of her heirs the sum of $10, and son Lee B. Payne was to receive the residue of all money; furthermore, she left her China Closet and all the contents to Mildred Shaw, and her Piano to Kay Denice Shaw, leaving the remainder of her property, including furniture, jewelry, and all other money to her son Lee B. Payne, "with full knowledge of the help and peace of mind which his love, care and affection has provided for me during my life time."

Lee's memorial inscription reads Lee D. Payne 2 June 1959. He is buried in Section 10, Block 9, Lot 5 in Marlow Cemetery.

An infant Joe R. Payne born circa 1913 and died 30 Oct 1913 is buried in Section 10, Block 9, Lot 6. It is possible this is a son of Lee's.

Charles Strong noted that according to court documents, Lee had been living in Chandler, Arizona prior to his death in 1959. On the 10th of January, 1961, the final decree and distribution in the matter of the Last Will and Estate of Lee B. Payne was decreed in the County Court of Stephens, Oklahoma. Harold N. Payne and Evelyn M. Payne were joint executors and trustees. Their relationship to Lee B. Payne is not known.

The residue of the estate at that time consisted of mineral rights for approximately 21 acres of land and cash of $214. The court found that Lee B. Payne left TWO SURVIVING SONS WHO WERE NOT MENTIONED IN THE WILL OF LEE B. PAYNE, DECEASED HEREIN, and said surviving sons were omitted heirs at law under the law of the State of Oklahoma; that said surviving sons were John Earl Payne and Henry Lee Payne, both being of legal age and competent and that each and both surviving children were the only surviving children of the deceased, the only other child of deceased being Hattie Mildred Moore, who predeceased her father, the said Lee B. Payne, herein. That the children of Hattie Mildred Moore, deceased daughter of Lee B. Payne were heirs under the terms of the Will of the said Lee B. Payne, the same being John Lee McWhorter and Kay Denise Shaw; and future that the children of ONE OF THE OMITTED CHILDREN OF LEE B. PAYNE, were heirs under the Will of Lee B. Payne , herein, the same being Michael Payne, Mary Ellen Payne and Patrick Payne. THAT THE TWO OMITTED CHILDREN OF LEE B. PAYNE, DECEASED TESTATOR HEREIN, WERE JOHN EARL PAYNE AND HENRY LEE PAYNE, who entered this probate matter and voluntarily signed Disclaimer and Renunciation of Interest hereing in the entire estate of Lee B. Payne......(emphasis added) further finds; that under the terms of the will the estate is to be conveyed in trust to Millie Payne, wife of the deceased for life....

His Obituary, from the Marlow Review, Thursday, June 11, 1959, follows:

Graveside Services for Lee B. Payne

Graveside service for Lee B. Payne was held in the Marlow cemetery on Sunday at 3:30 p.m. conducted by Rev. George L. Needham, pastor of the First Methodist church.

Payne, 64, a former resident of Marlow, died at 8:00 a.m. on Tuesday, June 2, in Chandler, Ariz., where he had lived for the past three years. The funeral was held Thursday at Chandler.

Serving as bearers for the local service, directed by Callaway Smith Funeral Home, were Pud Tullous, Roy Scott, John M. Briscoe, Virgil Flurry, J.W. Taylor and Cecil Troxel.

(Courtesy of Lynell Gentry Cordell)

(Research):
Census Information:

1920 Census
Oklahoma, Stephens County, Marlow
Enumerated 19 Jan 1920
SD 6 ED 257
298-379
Payne, Lee B Hd M W 24 M Okla Mo Ill Farmer
Payne, Millie Wf F W 24 M Okla Ky Ky
Payne, Henry Lee Son M W 3 S Ok Ok Ok
Payne, John Earl M W 2 S Ok Ok Ok

1930 Census
Oklahoma, Stephens County, Wall Twp
Enumerated April 21 and 22, 1930
ED 69-26 SD 9 Sheet 13B
244-253
Payne, Lee Hd M W 35 M 21 Ok Tx Ill Buyer Stock
Payne, Mildred Wife F W 35 M 22 Ky Ky Ky
Payne, Henry L Son M W 13 S Ok Ok Ky
Payne, John E Son M W 11 S Ok Ok Ky
Payne, Hattie M F W 7 S Ok Ok Ky

Family/Spouse: Mildred E. "Minnie" Seaton. Mildred was born on 28 Feb 1894 in Kentucky; died on 17 Oct 1969 in Baltimore, Baltimore County, Maryland; was buried in Marlow Cemetery, Marlow, Stephens County, Oklahoma. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Middle name may instead by Mabel. (www.mcclanahanhistory.com)

Notes:

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Census Listings:

1920 Census
Oklahoma, Noble County, White Rock Twp
Enumerated 20 and 21 Jan 1920
SD 8 ED 182 Sheet 6B
41-41
Payne, William H Head M W 36 M Tx Mo US Roundabout Oil Field
Payne, Francis P Wf F W 29 M Tx Mo Tn
Payne, Vera M Dtr F W 7 S Ok Tx Tx
Payne, Joshua W Son M W 5 S Ik Tx Tx
Payne, Lois M Dtr F W 4 8/12 S Ok Tx Tx
Payne, Charles L Son M W 1 10/12 S Ok Tx Tx

1930 Census
Oklahoma, Roger Mills County, Kiowa Twp
Enumerated May 12, 1930
ED 65-12 SD 4 Sheet 10A Stamped 252
168-171
Standingwater, Francess Head M In 55 Wd Ok Full Blood Cheyenne
Standingwater, Onekiss Mother F In 76 Wd Ok Full Blood Cheyenne
Payne, William H Head M W 47 Wd Tx Mo Mo Farmer
Payne, James W Son M W 16 S Ok Tx Tx
Payne, Lois M Dtr F W 14 S Ok Tx Tx
Payne, Loyd C Son M W 12 S Ok Tx Tx
Payne, Norine D Dtr F W 8 S Ik Tx Tx
Payne, Weldon H Son M W 6 S Tx Tx Tx
Steele, Clinton O Son-in-law M W 21 M 20 Tx Miss Miss Laborer
Steele, Vera M Dtr F W 18 M 17 Ok Tx Tx

William married Frances Pearl Burgess on 3 May 1911 in Butler, Custer County, Oklahoma. Frances was born on 14 Apr 1890 in Texas; died on 5 Sep 1929 in Oklahoma. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Said to have married Russell Gaither HEMPSTEAD.

Notes:

Said to have married Leila JOHNSON.

Notes:

Name may instead be George Clarence. (www.mcclanahanhistory.com)

Notes:

Said to have married Joseph Wiley.

Notes:

Ken Harvey writes that the 1910 census lists Clarence age 54 b. TX with 3 children and a non relative -Madeline. There is a discrepancy in this and his birth date.

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Census Information:

1910 Census
Oklahoma, Washita, Bessie Twp
Enumerated 31 May 1910
SD 5 ED 271 Sheet 2B
32-32
Payne, Clarence R Head M W 7 Tx Mo MO Farmer
Payne, Ida Wf F W 24 M 7 4/4 Kansas Indiana Oh
Payne, Esther Dtr F W 6 S Ok Tx Ks
Payne, Sylvia Dtr F W 4 S Ok Tx Ks
Payne, Mabel Dtr F W 2 S Ok Tx Ks
Payne, Madalene Dtr F W 8/12 S Ok Tx Ks

1920 Census
Arizona, Maricopa County, East Chandler, Pr 11
Enumerated 7 Jan 1920
SD 1 ED 29 Sheet 6A
107-115
Payne, Richard C Head M W 43 M Tx Mo Carpenter House
Payne, Ida D Wf F W 34 M Kansas Ind
Payne, Ester O Dtr F W 15 S Ok Tx Ks
Payne, Sylvia M Dtr F W 14 S Ok Tx Ks Farm Laborer
Payne, Mabel E Dtr F W 12 S Ok Tx Ks Farm Laborer
Payne, Madaline G Dtr F W 10 S Ok Tx Ks
Payne, Richard F. Son M W 8 S Ok Tx Ks
Payne, Guy T Son M W 6 S Ok Tx Ks
Payne, Violet D Dtr M(sic) W 4 11/12 S Ok Tx Ks
Payne, Laurence D Son M W 1 8/12 (twins) S Ok Tx Ks
Payne, Florence C Dtr F W 1 8/12 (twins) S Ok Tx Ks


1930 Census
New Mexico, Dona Ana County, Garfield Eled Precinct 22
Enumerated 22 Apr 1930
ED 7-26 SD 4 Sheet 4A Stamped 291
68-82
Payne, Richard C Head M W 53 M 27 Tx Mo Mo Carpenter House Builder
Payne, Ida D Wf F W 44 M 18 Ks Ind Ohio
Payne, Richard T Jr Son M W 19 S Ok Tx Ks Laborer Farm
Payne, Guy T Son M W 17 S Ok Tx Ks Laborer Farm
Payne, Violet D Dtr F W 15 S Ok Tx Ks
Payne, Florence C Dtr F W 11 S Ok Tx Kx
Payne, Lawrence D Son M W 11 S Ok Tx Ks
Payne, Arlin T Son M W 8 S Ok Ts Kx
Payne, Ansel C Son M W 6 S Arizona Tx Ks

Clarence married Ida Delcina Thompson on 2 Jul 1903. Ida was born about 1885 in Kansas; died on 25 May 1953; was buried in City of Mesa Cemetery, Mesa, Maricopa County, Arizona. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

The year of his birth is sometimes shown as 1877, but his granddaughter, Linda Miller, shows it as 1878. This is based on their family Bible. Linda notes that he had a cleft palate and wore a mustached most of the time to cover it up, his features appeared Indian, but he had light blue eyes.

Ken Harvey writes that he was known as Bert, and that he was a professional cowboy. His granddaughter, Linda Miller, says her father said he was always called Will by his family. Grace Ellen Gentry, who knew him, had a lot of respect for William Bertram. She had high standards and was not an easy lady to please. He was considered a very physically tough person but he was very well mannered. He worked for his uncle Walter W. Payne at one point, Walter having a ranch.

He once had an accident when roping steers. His lower arm ended up being jerked off at the elbow. He gained a lot of respect from the fact that he didn't let this later hinder him on a horse. He used to hold the reins wrapped around the stump and it was considered that he could do more than many men who had both their hands.

Linda Miller recalls the story of how her grandfather actually lost his arm as follows: "He had been working on the Bell Ranch in New Mexico, when a young cowboy thought it would be funny to see old Will Payne be thrown, so he hit the horse (just green broke) that my grandfather was riding on the rump with his felt hat and he was thrown alright. My grandfather at the time weighed about 230 pounds and was 6 foot 2 or 4 inches tall. When he fell it drove his left arm into the ground. There was a compound fracture above the elbow. The doctor that was available thought it best to take off his arm right above the break. It did not heal well and went back to Oklahoma and then went to a doctor in Missouri that took it off in the shoulder joint after gangrene had set in. During his weakened condition he contracted T.B. and died of it when my father was 6 months old, leaving my grandmother a young widow with three boys."

(Research):Census Information

1910 Census
Oklahoma, Washita County, Union Twp
Enumerated 3 Jun 1910 by Thomas Hudgens
SD 5 ED 268 Sheet 22B
303-303
Payne, William B Hd M W 33 W Mo Mo Mo English Farmer
Thompson, Lawrence Servant M w 18 S Ka Mo Mo English Farm L
aborer

William married Shirley Thompson on 11 Jun 1905. Shirley was born about 1877; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

William married Elizabeth Louise Belter on 16 Jul 1910 in Arapaho, Custer County, Oklahoma. Elizabeth was born about 1891 in North Dakota; died on 17 Feb 1960 in Clinton, Van Buren County, Arkansas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Name Fred Lee Payne
Event Date 29 Aug 1950
Event Place Mesa, Maricopa, Arizona
Gender Male
Race (Original):
Age 70
Birth Year (Estimated) 1880
Birth Date:
Birthplace:
Marital Status:
Spouse's Name:
Father's Name Levi Payne
Father's Birthplace:
Mother's Name Elizabeth Mcclanahan
Mother's Birthplace:
Occupation:
Address:
Residence Place:
Cemetery:
Burial Place:
Burial Date:
GS Film number 2241193
Digital Folder Number 4204517
Image Number 118
Reference ID cn 4104

Citing this Record:
"Arizona, Deaths, 1870-1951," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/FLVK-KLR : accessed 16 Feb 2014), Fred Lee Payne, 29 Aug 1950.

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Census Information:

1910 Census
Oklahoma, Washita County, Union Twp
Enumerated 2 Jun 1910 by Thomas Hudgens
SD 5 ED 268 Sheet 22A Stamped 250
301-301 Payne, Levi and Sarah
302-302
Payne, Fred L Hd M W m1 7 Tx Mo Mo English Farmer
Payne, Alice C Wife F W 20 M1 7 Mo Mo Mo
Payne, Chester F Nephew M W 2 Ok Mo Mo

1930 Census
Arizona, Maricopa County, Goodyear Election Precinct
Enumerated April 24, 1930
ED 7-80 SD 2 Sheet 11A Stamped 236
201
Payne, Harold Head M W 23 M 22 New Mexico Miss Kansas Laborer
Payne, Evelyn Wf F W 21 M 20 Ky Ky Ten
202
Payne, Fred Head M W 49 M 23 Tx Miss Ka Foreman Ranch Cotton
Payne, Alice Wf F W 40 M 13 Mo Mo Mo
Payne, Ruby Dtr F W 12 S Ok Tx Mo
Payne, Levi Son M W 8 S Ariz Tx Mo
Payne, Walter, Son M W 5 S Ariz Tx Mo
203
Payne, Mollie Hd F W 43 Wd Mo Mo Mo Laborer Cotton Clean Up
Payne, Cecil Son M W 24 S Ok Tx Mo Laborer Cotton Clean Up
Payne, Gilbert Son M W 19 S Ok Tx Mo Laborer Cotton Clean Up
Payne, Loyd Son m W 18 S Ok Tx Mo Laborer Cotton Clean Up
Payne, Vernon Son M W 15 S Ok Tx Mo
Payne, Ethel Dtr F W 14 S Ok Tx Mo
Payne, Wilburn Son M W 10 S Ok Tx Mo
Payne, Floyann Dtr F W 8 S Ok Tx Mo

Fred married Alice Christine Lowry on 30 Aug 1903. Alice (daughter of Ulyses Sherman Lowry and Ida Frances Morley) was born on 9 Jan 1890 in Pollock, Sullivan County, Missouri; died on 19 Jul 1943; was buried in City of Mesa Cemetery, Mesa, Maricopa County, Arizona. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

The family bible had his death date as 11 Mar 1923, Death Certificate has death date 13 Mar 1923. Walter went to Chandler, Arizona in 1918 then returned to Oklahoma shortly after that. He died of the flu, with the secondary cause of death being pneumonia. This was the year of the great Spanish Flu epidemic. The undertaker was L. Woodward, Duncan. The death certificate also showed him as age 40 years, 3 months, which would put his year of birth around 1883.

Walter's wife, Molly, returned to Arizona with her children, except for Blanche who was already married. Molly moved to Arizona with Fred Payne and his wife, who was her sister. Fred is the brother to Walter.

(Research):
Census Information:

1910 Census
Oklahoma, Washita County, Union Twp
Enumerated 2 Jun 1910 by Thomas Hudgens
SD 5 ED 268 Sheet 22A Stamped 250
296-296
Payne, Walter Hd M W 27 M1 8 Tx Mo Mo English Farmer
Payne, Mollie Wf F W 24 M1 8 3/3 Mo Mo Mo
Payne, Blanche Dtr F W 7 S Okla Tx Mo
Payne, Cecil Son M W 6 S Ok Tx Mo
Payne, Hazel Dtr F W 2 S Ok Tx Mo

Walter married Mary Ann "Molly" Lowry on 30 Oct 1901 in Cordell, Washita County, Oklahoma. Mary (daughter of Ulyses Sherman Lowry and Ida Frances Morley) was born on 6 Apr 1886 in Lucerne, Putnam County, Missouri; died on 14 Jun 1960 in Mesa, Maricopa County, Arizona; was buried on 16 Jun 1960 in City of Mesa Cemetery, Mesa, Maricopa County, Arizona. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Edith married William W. Copeland on 10 Dec 1910. William (son of James G. Copeland and Mary "Polly" Denby Edge) was born on 7 May 1875 in Missouri; died on 25 Dec 1957 in Hominy, Osage County, Oklahoma; was buried in A. J. Powell Memorial Cemetery, Hominy, Osage County, Oklahoma. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

She never married. Ken Harvey notes "she was not considered right in the head."

Notes:

Said to have married Ed COOPER on 15 Oct 1921.

Notes:

Ken Harvey writes "There is another photograph, this time of his high school graduation in from Quanah High School in May 1901. This shows him holding his sheepskin diploma-no "mere paper" at that time! The photograph shows five girls dressed like bridesmaids and one boy with a flower in his button hole, all students surrounding a man who is presumably the school principal. Marvin, the solitary boy (young adult), is at the rear (apparently education was not a very macho activity among the youth of the town). His younger sister Effie stands to his immediate right. Marvin read an essay to the assembled parents on "Closing Events of the Nineteenth Century." His sister Effie read an essay on "Duty." One of the other girls present was a Payne double first cousin, Lula Pearl McClanahan (daughter of Fred Lafayette McClanahan and Calla Payne). She read an essay on "Courage.""

Notes:

The Comanche Reflex
Comanche, I. T.
(Comanche, Stephens County, Oklahoma)
Friday, August 11, 1905
MISSES ADA MCCALLAHAN and EFFIE PAYNE of Duncan were in the city. Miss McCallahan has been elected to fill the vacancy occasioned by the resignation of MISS FANNY BAKER.

Ada McClanahan, Olive McClanahan's niece, was a great beauty. She was thought to have been brought up in Duncan. In 1933/4 she came back, or at least came, for a visit to Duncan from Arizona. Ada was looking for the Marvin Payne family and was asking directions. When she met the nineteen year old Lewis Adair Payne and asked him for their whereabouts He was totally tongue-tied by the sight of her. She was to report back to his mother, Grace, when she finally found the house that Lewis certainly wasn't going to give away any secrets.

Ada later married a man from Kingman, Arizona who is thought to have managed a picture theatre there. His name is not known. Ada may have married in Duncan if she had been brought up there, however, the McClanahan family do not appear in the 1910 Stephens Co. census. There is a the strong possibility that Ada was Callie's, approximately 45 year old, daughter in 1933. The idea is further substantiated by Lewis' understanding that Ada was a double second cousin of his. She may have had a previous marriage.

Notes:

A photo of her gravemaker is on her FindAGrave memorial page, created by "AlbFirefly."

It is a very simple marker, laying flat on her lot. It is inscribed "Mother Myrtle May Stoneking" with her year of birth, 1896, to the left of her name and her year of death, 1937 to the right.

Myrtle married Marion Allen Stoneking about 1918. Marion was born on 30 Nov 1895 in Kelly, Socorro County, New Mexico; died on 12 Jan 1954; was buried in Sunset Memorial Park, Albuquerque, Bernalillo County, New Mexico. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

He married, when he was past sixty, a plain country girl with a hammerlock on reality. She was much younger than he was. (Informant: Lewis Adair Payne).

Notes:

In Lewis Adair Payne's Personal Journal he wrote on March 16, 1936 "I went up to see Orville who is near death and promised [his brother] Claude to return and keep him company while he watched over him. Suppered at Uncle Frank's [Gentry] and then back to be with Claude. Homer Strong [married to Anna Laura Payne] was there too and stayed until nearly 1 am. Claude and I not to bed until 2:30. He gave me money to eat breakfast one." On March 23 he followed up with a related entry "Saw Claude who says that Orville is much better considering."

Later in life, Lewis told Kenneth Harvey that Orville 'was a terrible talker' and that he never married.

Notes:

A beautiful woman with a rose-petal complexion. A cosmetic company, Francis Denny, paid her salary for a year to prevent her working for the competition. She didn't have to do anything. She was quite clear in her mind that her features owed nothing to cosmetics-she considered her regular drinks of iced water to be the secret.

She later had one breast removed. When she was ill young Lewis Adair Payne was called into her room for the purpose of being told that he came from a good family and he was never to forget it. Lewis lived in her home for a time.

She married Ray Hard. He had invented some sort of oil field tool.

After Florence died it is believed that a set of beautiful Japanese hand-painted Noritake plates belonging to her was given to Lewis Adair Payne. They are now in the collection of Penny Ethlen Payne.

Family/Spouse: Ray Hard. Ray was born about 1890. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Never married. He horse jockeyed for Sam Payne.

Family/Spouse: Charles West. Charles was born before 1894; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Died young of T.B.

Notes:

A family genealogist, she did a lot of work on the Marshalls. In 1915, she compiled a single page handwritten family group sheet titled "Grand Father Marshall Family" from data presumably supplied by her mother, Lula Payne. The original is in the possession of Margaret Lou Rounds (Mrs. Clark) of Fort Worth. Her husband gave her a copy of Brook Payne's book when it was published in the 1930's.

Family/Spouse: William Rounds. William was born before 1902; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Thomas's mother died when he was just three months old. His father remarried shortly after he turned six. Sometime after his father's remarriage, Thomas was sent to Decatur, Texas to attend school. His daughter, Anna Laura Payne, believes this school was run by Jesuits. While he was away at school, about six months after his thirteenth birthday, his father died "of a long and lingering illness like consumption." Before he turned 17, Thomas's stepmother died as well. Within the next ten years, both of his younger half-brothers died tragically. In spite of suffering these many significant losses, Thomas was a gregarious and outgoing person with many friends. He loved to hunt and be in the outdoors.

Ken Harvey wrote "Tom was musical and learned to play the piano by ear. He seemed, throughout his life, to have had little sense of responsibility or of time. As a boy he would often disappear and be found, for example, asleep in a field. His father often had to saddle up his horse and go and get him when he was missing from home as a child."

Harvey continued "In the First World War Tommy served in the 90th Division US Army alongside his double cousin Carl. Tommy used to collect enemy arms after a military action, Carl reported, even though he was not allowed to keep them. He could be seen staggering across the battlefield weighed down, dropping a weapon from the pile he clutched when he saw another gun he preferred better. He was a marksman who shot left-handed. He had been excused from further army rifle practice in basic training, and allowed to fire holding the gun as he wished, when it was discovered how accurate his aim was."

Daughter Anna Laura reported that her father did not go oversees until after the Armistice, he was part of the later occupaying forces. She remembers waving to him from the train station as he departed for the service. After he returned from overseas, Thomas resumed his farming and ranching operations in Stephens county.

Charles Strong reports that Tom lost his land in the late 1920's, after the bottom fell out of the cattle market. He had borrowed money against his ranch from a bank in Wichita, Kansas to raise a herd of cattle. A couple of years later, when they had fully matured, he shipped them by freight train to Chicago to be sold. The market crashed, and the sale of his cattle didn't raise enough even to pay the freight charges that were due on his shipment. To avoid foreclosure, Tom arranged to sell his land holdings to Leonard Ketchum. Ketchum paid him a few thousand dollars in cash, and also assumed to notes that were due on the land, a fair and gracious offer that helped keep Tom on his feet.

Tom used this stake to homestead for a while in Wyoming, thinking this would give him a fresh start. He thought it a great adventure. Bessie was horrified. Charles Strong recalls that Bessie's initial impression of the Wyoming homesteads was favorable. She admired both the large screened in porches, and long clothes lines. Her admiration turned to stark terror, however, when she learned that the screened in porches were actually set up so the children had somewhere to play away from the rattlesnakes. She also came to realize that long lines between the homes and barns weren't for clothers. They were set up so that you wouldn't get lost and freeze to death going between your barn and your home in the case of a sudden blizzard. At Bessie's urging, they soon moved back to Oklahoma.

These setbacks eventually became too much for Tom. One day he simply disappeared, leaving Bessie and his children behind. Unbeknownst to them, he moved to California. This is how he was listed at the time of the 1930 Federal Census:

California, Los Angeles, Signal Hill, ED 1509
Taylor, Joseph A Hd M W 40 M @ 25 Calif Ill Ind Assistant Operator Gasoline Plow
Taylor, Mary A Wife F W 45 M @ 30 NY NY Ireland
Crossen, Albert Lodger M W 22 S Cal Cal Iowa Rotary Helper
Stamper, Edgar A Lodger M W 34 S Oklahoma Tenn Iowa Rotary Helper Garlington, Robert Lodger M W 35 D Alabama Georgia Alabama Rotary Helper Price, Sterling Lodger M W 49 M California Missouri Missouri Pumper Harris, Abbot B Lodger M W 31 D Pennsylvania Ireland Nebraska Promoter O&G
PAYNE, THOMAS Lodger M W 37 M @ age 20 Ok Missouri Ok Rotary Helper

The occupations of the lodgers in both the Taylor lodging home, and in the homes of their immediate neighbors, made it clear he was part of the booming oil and gas industry in California. In 1900, the state of California produced 4 million barrels. By 1910, this had jumped to 77 million barrels. In the 1920's three new major fields were discovered in rapid succession - Huntington Beach (1920), Santa Fe Springs (1921), and the biggest of them all, the Signal Hill, where Thomas lived. By April 1922, only 10 months after completion of the discovery well, Signal Hill was covered with 108 wells, producing 14,000 barrels daily. By the fall of 1923, 259,000 barrels of crude was being produced every day from nearly 300 wells. Signal Hill was the biggest field the already productive Southern California region had ever seen....this made California the nation's number-one producing state, and in 1923, California was the source of one-quarter of the world's entire output of oil!

(http://www.priweb.org/ed/pgws/history/signal_hill/signal_hill2.html)

Tom appeared to be in the Long Beach area for well over a decade. In August, 1943, he filed a document with the Long Beach, California Selective Service board. It was a request for permission to depart the United States to visit the country of Alaska, which was not yet a state. He was in the employ of Guy F. Atkinson Co of San Francisco, a heavy construction company. As the nature of his business was listed as "confidential," it is likely he was involved in a civil engineering project in Alaska related to the war effort.

Back home in Oklahoma, in September 1950, his family had him declared legally dead so they could probate his estate and apply for benefits based on his enrollement in the Chickasaw tribe. Daughter Lois Marie Payne was named executor. Because they had not heard from him in over twenty years, they had no idea if he was still living.

Tom remained in the Pacific Northwest after the second World War, working as a civil servant at various Air Force Bases in and around Alaska. When he became terminally ill, the Red Cross reconnected Tom and his family in Oklahoma, via letters, prior to his death.

On the Standard Certificate of Death, State of Oregon, Thomas H. Payne is shown as having died at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon on December 12, 1957. His usual residence is shown as Palmer, Alaska, and his usual occupation is shown as Laborer. It appears that his marital status was subject to some question. It looks as if the "divorced" box was originally checked, and then scribbled over. The "married" box is checked, and the name of his spouse is shown as Mrs. Bessie Payne. The date of birth is given as March 20, 1893, and his birthplace is shown as Marlow, Oklahoma. Mother and Father are shown as "unknown." It is noted that he was a Veteran of World War I, and that the information on the death certificate was taken from his VA records. The certificate was signed by W.A Haug, MD, Asst. Pathologist. The funeral director was A.J. Rose and Son of Portland, and the cemetery or crematorium being Willamette National Cemetery in Portland, Oregon. A telegraph regarding his death was sent the next day to Anna Laura Strong in Duncan.

His gravesite information is below:

PAYNE, THOMAS H PVT US ARMY WORLD WAR I
DATE OF BIRTH: 03/20/1893
DATE OF DEATH: 12/12/1957
BURIED AT: SECTION H SITE 2888 WILLAMETTE NATIONAL CEMETERY

http://www.cem.va.gov/nchp/willamette.htm

11800 SE MT. SCOTT BOULEVARD PORTLAND, OR 97266 (503) 273-5250

Anna Laura Strong also received a letter from Mrs. Earle W. Barry, Star Route, Palmer, Alaska some eight months after her father died. She had apparently written Mrs. Barry regarding some trouble they were having in regards to an insurance settlement. Mrs. Barry informed her that she had "never heard him mention a divorce at any time and I believe I would have heard tell about it some time when he was under the influence of liquor. He was in California before he came to Alaska. The boys met him in Amchitka Island that was an Army base, the last was Ladd Field...near Fairbank, before that he was (at) Eidson Base. I am sending some papers that were laying around. Hope they will help you. Tom was a good man. His worst enemy was liquor."

Among Tom's personal effects that were returned to his family were his wallet and four photographs: two of the photos were of co-workers, Lee H. Talley of Iowa and Richard Neal of Missouri; one photo of Tom himself in outdoor gear; and a studio portrait of "Marie and Midge." Richard Neal inscribed his photo, taken at Amchitka Base Headquarters, "To a very good Pal from a Boiler house cook." Marie inscribed her portrait, dated 1944, as well, saying that although it was "not a good picture" of either her or Midge, she thought Tom might wish to cut it down to fit his wallet. He chose to keep it intact.

His brown Norwegian Cowhide wallet contained several money order receipts, a blank check from the First National Bank of Fairbanks, receipts for funds he received as a VA patient in Oregon (claim #1431661), his 1956-1957 Alaska Resident Hunting License, an National Rifle Association of America Membership card, a Veterans of Foreign Wars Ballard Post 3063 card, a membership card from the Ladd AFB Civilian Club of Fairbanks, his U.S. Civil Service Commission retirement card dated May 6, 1957 (#CSA-466-659), his union card from the National Federation of Federal Employees Local 899, a receipt for a .22 caliber rifle, and a business card from the Association of Baptists for World Evangelism, based in Philadelphia. On the back of this card was written "Benjamin Constant, Amazona Brasil, S.A.".

A few pieces of correspondence were returned as well. Among these were his 1943 permit to leave the US for Alaska; a 1948 letter from the IRS--mailed to Tom in Seattle--regarding a $32 refund on the 1946 taxes; a "Notification of Personnel Action from Ladd AFB," dated July 8, 1955, showing Tom's change in title from Stationary Boiler Fireman to Heating Equipment Fireman. His grade, WB-54-02-09, and his salary ($2.94 per hour) remained unchanged. Also saved were his separation from duty papers dated 20 May 1957. It showed that he was retiring due to disability, and that his permanent home address would be in care of Earl W. Barry of Palmer, Alaska. A prescription for various drugs to treat his bronchogenic carcinoma was included as well, signed by E. Dank, Capt. USAF, of Todd AFB. He also saved his acceptance as a life member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars. Ironically, his VFW Life Member card (No. 4427), also in his effects, was dated 1-1-1958, two weeks after his death.

These effects, as meager as they seem, were treasured by his daughters, and remained in 2005 in the position of his granddaughter, Lynn (Payne) Moroney of Oklahoma.

He was 1/32 Indian by blood through his mother. He appears as No. 3686 upon the "lists prepared by the Commission to the Five Civilized Tribes under the Act of Congress approved July 1, 1902 (32 Stat., 641), of persons entiled to enrollment as citizens by blood of the Chickasaw Nation and approved by the Secretary of the Interior December 12, 1902". Because of this, he was first alloted land when he was only eleven years old in Tishomingo, Indian Territory on July 9, 1904, Section 29, Town IN, Range 5W, 160 acres in total with a value of $1,040. (Cert # 8801, Cert 11253).

Thomas married Bessie Bird Gentry on 27 Dec 1912 in Stephens County, Oklahoma. Bessie (daughter of James Edwin Gentry and Elzada Trawick) was born on 14 Dec 1894 in Alma, Chickasaw Nation, Indian Territory; died on 3 May 1958 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma; was buried in Duncan Municipal Cemetery, Duncan, Stephens County, Oklahoma. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

At the time of the 1920 census, he was a lodger in the home of M.J. Ross, in the King Township of Duncan. He was listed as single, a Farmer, and as "Working Out,"

Marloy (sic) Boy Dies Yesterday At Stillwater

Duncan Banner Fri. April 18, 1924 Pg. 8 Transcribed by C. R. Strong 11-29-2003

Clyde Payne, of Marlow, died at Stillwater Monday, according to word received by his uncle, W. W. Payne, of this city, last night. No. particulars concerning the death were given. He was attending A & M college. The body will arrive in Marlow and burial will be there Wednesday at 3 o'clock. Deceased was 26-years old and a son of Tom Payne, pioneer citizen of Stephens county. He was a brother of Carl Payne who was killed in a grade crossing crash near Minco (Oklahoma) several months ago. He is survived by a wife, formerly Miss Willie (Billie) Hall, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bill Hall of this city.

Marlow Review
Thurs. April 17, 1924

Marlow Man Died At Stillwater Monday
Local Post of American Legion Gives Military Funeral

Clyde Payne of this city died Monday at Stillwater where he was attending the A & M College. The body arrived in this city Wednesday and was laid to rest in the City Cemetery at 10:30 o'clock that morning.

Deceased was 26 years old and a son of Tom Payne, pioneer citizen of Stephens County, and a nephew of Mrs. W. H. Payne of this city. He is a brother of Carl Payne who was killed in a grad crossing accident near Minco several months ago. He is survived by his wife and child. Mrs. Payne was formerly Miss Willie Hall, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bill Hall of Duncan.

Mr. Payne was a veteran of the World War serving in the United States Navy. Funeral services at Marlow were in charge of the local post of the American Legion. A firing squad from Duncan assisted the local post in conduction the last sad rites and paying their respect to one of their number who had served his country well and honorably.

(Courtesy of Lynell Gentry Cordell)

NOTE Headstone in Marlow Cemetery, Sect 11 Blks 78 & 85 (Lot 7), states b. 9-13-1899 d. 4-13-1924, and reads "At Rest."

According to Fay (Payne) Yeager, her half-uncle Clyde Marion Payne was hooked on drugs, probably heroin or cocaine. This may have been due to World War I wounds. According to Fay, he had kicked the habit and was attending Oklahoma A & M in Stillwater. When he became ill, he made his wife (Bill) promise to not allow use of drugs. His death was supposedly a bad one. Both Fay and Lois PAYNE mentioned Clyde's wife as "BILL". Both commented how they competed to sit in her lap. Bill was glad to accomadate them, however she required them to "sit still and not wiggle."

Clyde married Willie Hall after 1920. Willie was born before 1904. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

1920 - Living in the Parks Township of Stephens County, with Paul listed as 18 and his wife Grace A. as 17. He was shown as a Farmer. They lived next to Paul's half brother, Thomas H Payne. Their son, Paul Jr. was born in July of that year, five months after the census was taken.

Duncan Daily Banner
Sunday, July 23, 1922 - Pg. 1
Family of Five Killed When Train Strikes Auto
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Payne, Two Children and Niece Killed

El Reno, July 22---(Associated Press) ---A family of four was killed when a Rock Island passenger train struck the auto in which they were riding this afternoon, at a crossing one mile south of Union City.
The dead are:
PAUL PAYNE --25 farmer, Duncan
HIS WIFE,
TWO CHILDREN--a girl 4 years old and a boy 2 years old.
LILLIAN DECK--13, the only daughter of R. A. Deck of El Reno.
The gasoline tank of the automobile exploded and set fire to the wreckage. The bodies of all except Payne were badly burned. Payne, who was driving, was thrown clear of the wreckage and killed instantly. The Payne Family had been visiting in El Reno and was returning to their home in Duncan when the tragedy occurred.

Mr. and Mrs. Paul Payne and two babies of this city and Miss Lillian Deck of El Reno, about 13 years old, a niece of Mr. and Mrs. Payne, were instantly killed Saturday afternoon when the automobile in which they were riding was struck by Rock Island northbound passenger train No. 24, a short distance south of Union City, a few miles south of El Reno.Miss Deck had been a guest of the Payne family in Duncan for some time and (---faded print---) party was on the way to her home in El Reno when the accident happened. Miss Deck's father is a Rock Island conductor and has a passenger run. The tragedy happened at the same dangerous crossing that about two months ago occurred a similar smash and which took the lives of four occupants of an automobile. At this place the road and railroad track parallel for some distance before reaching the crossing. At the crossing the auto road takes a sudden turn and dip to cross the railroad. It is impossible to see a train at this place because of the high embankments. Mr. Payne is a nephew of W. W. Payne and Mrs. Payne is a niece of Mrs. Mack Vandergriff, of this city.
The bodies of the victims were brought as far as Marlow where met by relatives with conveyances and brought to Duncan for burial.

The Marlow Review
Thursday, July 27, 1922
FAMILY KILLED IN AUTO ACCIDENT
Paul Payne, Wife and Two Small Children Killed Near El Reno Saturday--Were Buried Here Monday
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Payne and two small children, 1 year and 3 months of age, and Lillian Deck, 13 year old daughter of Conductor and Mrs. Deck of El Reno, were instantly killed Saturday afternoon when the auto in which they were riding was struck by a train at a crossing south of Union City. Mr. Payne was thrown clear of the car and killed instantly while Mrs. Payne, the children and Miss Deck were burned to death when the gasoline tank on the car exploded and consumed the car.
The remains of the Payne family were brought here for funeral services and burial Monday afternoon.
The services were conducted by Rev. E. L. Kirtley and the Idlett Click Post of the American Legion.
Paul Payne was born in Marlow, some twenty-one years ago and was a son of Mr. and Mrs. Tom Payne, well known pioneers of this locality. He grew to manhood here but later moved to Duncan from which place he moved to his farm on Wild Horse after marrying a Duncan girl. It was on this farm that he was residing at the time he met his death. The deceased served in the late war and was an active member of the American Legion. The deceased family leave a large number of relatives and many friends who are deeply grieved over such a sad demise.

The Marlow Review
Thursday, July 27, 1922 - Pg. 1

FAMILY KILLED IN AUTO ACCIDENT
Paul Payne, Wife and Two Small Children Killed Near El Reno Saturday--Were Buried Here Monday

Mr. and Mrs. Paul Payne and two small children, 1 year and 3 months of age, and Lillian Deck, 13 year old daughter of Conductor and Mrs. Deck of El Reno, were instantly killed Saturday afternoon when the auto in which they were riding was struck by a train at a crossing south of Union City. Mr. Payne was thrown clear of the car and killed instantly while Mrs. Payne, the children and Miss Deck were burned to death when the gasoline tank on the car exploded and consumed the car. The remains of the Payne family were brought here for funeral services and burial Monday afternoon. The services were conducted by Rev. E. L. Kirtley and the Idlett Click Post of the American Legion. Paul Payne was born in Marlow, some twenty-one years ago and was a son of Mr. and Mrs. Tom Payne, well known pioneers of this locality. He grew to manhood here but later moved to Duncan from which place he moved to his farm on Wild Horse after marrying a Duncan girl. It was on this farm that he was residing at the time he met his death. The deceased served in the late war and was an active member of the American Legion. The deceased family leave a large number of relatives and many friends who are deeply grieved over such a sad demise.

(All articles above are courtesty of Lyn Cordell)

Paul J. Payne was buried, with his namesake son, on 24 Jul 1922, in Section 9, Block 15, Plot 2, Marlow Cemetery, Oklahoma.

Paul married Grace A. Creel on 1 Oct 1919 in Stephens County, Oklahoma. Grace was born about 1902 in Cruce, Stephens County, Indian Territory; died on 22 Jul 1922 in Union City, Canadian County, Oklahoma; was buried in Marlow Cemetery, Marlow, Stephens County, Oklahoma. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Married second a Mr. RAY.

Family/Spouse: Frank Atkins. Frank was born about 1906. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Tom Ray. Tom was born before 1906. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Ken Harvey notes that she is neither in the group photo of Permelia and Walter's family, nor is she remembered by Lewis Adair Payne. She is also not listed with her other sisters at the time of the 1910 census. She probably died young, before the photo of the other children was taken in 190

Notes:

H(arry). C(arl). Payne Dies Today Duncan Banner Wed. February 20, 1957 Pg. 1 Transcribed by C. R. Strong 11-29-2003

Harry Carl Payne. 60, was found dead in his home on Duncan route 4, about 8 a.m. today. Death apparently was the result of a heart attack. A neighbor, Hoyt (Pete) Hardin, took Payne home between 8 and 9 p.m. Tuesday. Hardin, a brother-in-law, returned this morning and found Payne slumped on his bed and dead. Sheriff James Rose reported Payne had apparently sat on the bed and taken off his shoes, then suffered the heart attack. A retired farmer and rancher and veteran of World War I, Payne had lived in this area most of his life. He was a member of Velma Baptist Church. A native of Butler, Indian Territory, Payne was born February 14. 1897. Funeral will be at 2 p.m. Friday in the First Baptist Church here. Roy V. Harp, First Christian Church pastor, will officiate. Burial will be in Marlow Cemetery under direction of Grantham Funeral Home. Survivors include three sons, Paul James of 102 East Oak; W. L. of Duncan route 4; and Carl Jr. of Comanche. Also three sisters, Mrs.(Virginia Payne) Hoyt Hardin of Duncan route 4 and Mrs.(Vera Payne) John Young and Mrs. (Louise Payne) Charles Birnie, both of Roswell, N. M. and seven grandchildren.

NOTE Headstone in Marlow Cemetery, Sect 10 Blk 10 (Lot 9), states b. 4 Feb 1898 (note in obit 2-14-1897) d. 2-19-1957. Assumed the headstone was correct.

Additional Notes from Kenneth Harvey:

There is an infancy photograph of Carl taken circa 1898 by L. C. Kelley in Duncan, I.T. It is in the possession of Lewis Adair Payne (1997).

All of their three sons, their only three children, were in the Pacific theatre of the 2nd. World War and all three were at the battle of Iwo Jima. All survived even though they were in the thick of the fighting. Dorothy Pattison records another son "Dickie" but this is unlikely.

1903-He was photographed at the age of four with his great-grandparents, John and Pamelia Gentry in Alma, I.T.

1923-Mr. and Mrs. W.M. Gentry of this city (Duncan) celebrated their "Golden Wedding Day" Friday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Payne, a few miles east of this city.

Harry married Caroline "Carrie" Suzanne Cover on 4 Aug 1920 in Stephens County, Oklahoma. Caroline was born on 21 Jan 1902 in Seneca, Nemaha County, Kansas; died on 25 Feb 1984 in Duncan, Stephens County, Oklahoma; was buried in Marlow Cemetery, Marlow, Stephens County, Oklahoma. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Mary Ethel's mother died when she was just seven years old. She and her sisters Vera and Virginia can be found at the St. Joseph Catholic Boarding School in Chickasha, Grady County at the time of the 1910 census. Her widowed father was still ranching in Duncan, with the help of her brothers.

Mary Ethel had two daughters by her first husband. She married second a Mr. Madison and third J. W. Parker, but had no additional children.

Duncan Banner Sunday, April 25, 1948 Pg. 8 Mrs. Parker, Sulphur, Dies Former Duncan Woman, Daughter of W.W. Payne Mrs. J.W. Parker, 49, Sulphur, former resident of Duncan, died at 5:30 p.m. Friday in a Sulphur hospital after a short illness. The funeral service will be at 1:30 p.m. today from the Dunn Funeral Home chapel in Sulphur. Burial will be in the Marlow Cemetery. Mrs. Parker was born near Duncan on September 13, 1899, and lived here all her life until moving to California about 7 years ago. From California she moved to Sulphur. She was the daughter of Walter W. Payne, Stephens county pioneer rancher and business man. She is survived by the widower; two daughters, Mrs. Glen Jones, Weott, Calif., and Mrs. Allen Turner of Roff; two brothers, H.C. Payne and J.E. Payne, both of Duncan; three sisters, Mrs. Hoyt Hardin of Duncan, Mrs. John Young, and Mrs. Charles Birnie, both of Roswell, N.M.

Ethel Parker is buried in Section 10, Block 10, Plot 8, Marlow Cemetery. The date of birth shown on her headstone is different from the date shown in the above obituary. It is assumed that the date on the headstone is accurate.

Mrs. Allen Turner was the informant on her death certificate. Mary Ethel's death certificate indicated that she had been "In this community" for just 10 days, but her address was listed as 724 W. 14, Sulphur. Perhaps the period of 10 days refers to her stay at the DeLay Hospital, where she died of acute cardiac failure due to a coronary occlusion.

(Medical):Hard of hearing

Mary married John "Jack" Percy Benton on 8 Jun 1918 in Duncan, Stephens County, Oklahoma. John was born on 28 Mar 1894 in Kentucky; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Vol. 6, Stephens County Marriage Book:, Lic. # 642
Vera Payne to Clifford Roberts ? No date, Cancelled ?? Presumably married elsewhere in the years 1921/1922.

Vera P(ayne). Young Rites Tuesday

Duncan Banner Monday, March 26, 1962, Pg. 10 Transcribed by C. R. Strong 11-29-2003

Last rites for Vera Payne Young, a former Duncan area resident who died Friday in Roswell, NM., will be at 3 p.m. Tuesday in Brooks Funeral Chapel. Mrs. Young, a native of the Duncan area, was born on the Payne ranch east of Duncan Aug. 12, 1901. She moved to Roswell eight months ago. Mrs. Young was a member of the First Christian Church here and the widow of John Young, who died here in 1959. Young formerly operated Young's Grocery, east of Duncan. Survivors include a son Clifford Payne Roberts, Lovington, N.M.; and two sisters, Mrs. (Virginia Payne) Hoyt Hardin, Duncan route 4, and Mrs. Louise Birnie, Roswell. Also surviving are two grandchildren and several nieces and nephews. Roy Harp, retired First Christian pastor, will officiate assisted by Rev. Bill Masters, pastor. Burial will be by Brooks Funeral Home in Marlow Cemetery.
NOTE Headstone in Marlow Cemetery, Sect 10 Blk 9 (Lot 1), states b. 8-12-1901 d. 3-23-1962

Vera married Clifford R. "Boscoe" Roberts about 1921. Clifford was born about 1902 in Oklahoma; died about 1935. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Vera married John Clay Young about 1937 in New Mexico. John was born on 17 Aug 1900 in New Mexico; died on 4 Oct 1959; was buried in Marlow Cemetery, Marlow, Stephens County, Oklahoma. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

"Jan 4th, 1977....I do not hear much from Duncan folks since Grace (Ellen Gentry Payne) and Virginia (Payne Hardin) gone they always kept me up on news. W.T. (Gentry) does call now and then and brought his mother out to see us before she passed away. We did not get to go over to her funeral. Had a terrific ice storm so could not drive...Ruth Pearl Gentry."

Thursday, April 22, 1971

Mrs. Hardin's Rites Saturday

Mrs. Virginia Callie Hardin, 67, of Duncan Rt. 4, died at 10 p.m. Wednesday at her home following a long illness. Mrs. Hardin, born here on Aug. 23, 1903, was a member of the First Christian Church here. On May 2, 1925, she married Hoyt (Pete) Hardin in Walters.

Survivors include her husband of the home; a daughter, Mrs. Frances DuBose of Houston, Tex.; a grandson and a great-granddaughter. Service will be at 10:30 a.m. Saturday in the Don Grantham Funeral Home Chapel with the Rev. Morgan Sly, pastor of the First Christian Church, officiating. Burial will be in the Duncan Cemetery. Bearers will be Bruce Ridley, Lynn Colbert, Les Corbett, Leonard Ketchum, J.D. Harmeyer and Ed Davis.

(Courtesy of Lynell Cordell)

Virginia married Terriel Hoyt Hardin on 2 May 1925 in Walters, Cotton County, Oklahoma. Terriel was born on 12 Oct 1906 in Oklahoma; died on 16 May 1995 in Harris County, Texas; was buried in Duncan Municipal Cemetery, Duncan, Stephens County, Oklahoma. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Known as Dukey. Ken Harvey reports that his mother died when he was only two years old and he was raised by some black servants for a couple of years. Someone else in the family later took him in.


Duncan Banner
Friday, June 5, 1953
Death Comes to J. E. Payne
John Earl Payne, 49, longtime Stephens county farmer-stockman, died in his automobile early this morning while returning from Oklahoma City. Payne complained to his wife of being too tired to drive as they came through Marlow and she relieved him at the wheel. Death, which followed shortly, about 1:30 a.m. was attributed to a heart attack.
Payne, who was born January 3, 1904, in Duncan, lived at his ranch 14 miles east of Duncan.
Survivors are the widow, Gladys; a daughter, Mrs. Virginia Strain of Duncan route 4, and a son, Tommy, 10, of the home address.
Other survivors are a brother, Carl of route 4, and three sisters, Mrs. Virginia Harden of Duncan route 4 and Mrs. Vera Young and Mrs. Louise Birnie, both of Roswell, N.M.
The service will be at 2:30 p.m. Sunday at the West Side Church of Christ with Orrin Otley, minister, officiating. Burial will be in the Duncan Cemetery under the direction of Grantham Funeral Home.

(Courtesy of Lynell Gentry Cordell)

(Research):1930 census Stephens Co. OK ED 9
- pg 272B - sheet 10B - Hope Twp.
189/191
Surginer, Isaac M., MW 40 M, age when first married-20, TX MO MO
Surginer, Lilly M., FW 39 M, age when first married-19, OK US TX
189/192
Payne, John, MW 25 M, age when first married 21 OK MO TX
Payne, Edna, FW 20 M, age when first married 16 OK TX OK
Payne, John W., son, MW 11/2 OK OK OK

John married Edna Surginer on 24 Apr 1926 in Oklahoma. Edna was born about 1910. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Gladys Powell on 13 Oct 1931 in Chickasha, Grady County, Oklahoma. Gladys was born on 22 Mar 1906 in Stephens County, Oklahoma; died on 19 Jan 1995 in Roswell, Chaves County, New Mexico; was buried in Duncan Municipal Cemetery, Duncan, Stephens County, Oklahoma. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Ken Harvey writes that "Her mother died following her birth and she was taken in by her grandmother Mary E. Mounts. She used to call her "Mama" as she was the only mother she ever knew. Her father always paid her expenses. Her hair was carefully cut off by her father when it was medically advised. She was suffering from a fever or something. It was evidently very beautiful hair and it was preserved. Unfortunately the hair disappeared following her father's second marriage. Her grandmother used to take it out and wash it every year. In those days it was quite valuable. The children greatly resented the second wife who they suspected sold the hair."

She was a 1924 graduate of Duncan, Oklahoma, High School.

Ken shows that she was married to a Charles Bernie, and that they had an infant that was born around 1924 that died at about one year of age.

Her death certificate, viewable online at FamilySearch.org, Texas Deaths, 1890-1976, shows that she was the widow of Charles Birnie. A Charles Birnie (Jr.?) was the informant. Her usual residence was listed as Roswell, New Mexico.

(Medical):See attached sources.

Family/Spouse: Charles Birnie. Charles was born about 1906 in Oklahoma; died in Sep 1961 in New Mexico. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

From Shelby County Cemetery Records

? Payne, Ruby ? Daughter of J.E. and L.A. ? Born: Feb. 15, 1887 ? Died: Jan. 16, 1889 Old Shelbina Salt River Township Block 8 Lot 29