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Payne, William Henry Harrison, ca 1905

Husband of Hattie Brown
B. 1851 Missouri D. 1917 Oklahoma

William Henry Harrison Payne and his wife Hattie came to Marlow from Missouri with brief stops along the way in Montague County, Tex., and the area of Stephens County where Velma now stands. The family traveled by mule-drawn covered wagon, followed by the herds of cattle, mules and horses they owned. In 1887, the family settled a mile or two west of the Chisholm Trail near an area where a small community was beginning to take shape. Nearby was a general store and blacksmith shop with a spattering of half-dugout homes. A one-room, log schoolhouse doubled as a place of worship on Sundays. Four years later, a post office was established in that small community and took its name from a story of five brothers whose family also inhabited the area near Wildhorse Creek. That name was Marlow. W. H. and his brother, Tom, first engaged in freighting cargoes from Purcell and Fort Sill. Ranching, though, defined the family and with the establishment of the railroad in 1892, farming became their principal livelihood on land that was north and east of the town. In 1904, W. H. built a home on Jarboe Street.

(Excerpted from an article in The Marlow Review dated January 11, 2007; courtesy of Lynell Cordell)

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