Henry Payne (1813 - 1852)

Born 10 Feb 1813 in Sullivan Co., Tennessee

Ancestors

Husband of Mary Levesta (Harris) Payne — married 1 Jan 1835 (to 23 Oct 1852) in Monroe County, Kentucky

Descendants

Died 23 Oct 1852 at age 39 in Monroe Co., KY

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Biography

HENRY PAYNE, son of Daniel and Martha (Frazier) Payne; born Sullivan County, Tennessee, 10 February 1813.^[1] According to his death record, he was a married farmer, 39 years old, when he died of typhoid fever in Monroe County, Kentucky, 23 October 1852; the record names his parents: Daniel and Martha Payne.^[2] In 1850, Henry was the owner of one slave: a fifteen-year-old female, classified as black. He was married in Monroe County by William Howard on 1 January 1835, to MARY LEVESTA “POLLY” HARRIS (she was called “Polly Harris” on the marriage record).^[3] A daughter of Francis and Sarah (Kays/Keys) Harris,^[4] Mary Levesta was born in Monroe County on 5 March 1819;^[5] she died on 7 May 1891 in Sullivan County, Missouri, at the home of her daughter Martha T.T. (Payne) Morrow—as the result of swallowing a mouthful of pins, pins that were used for fastening fashionable large sleeves to a dress.^[6]

DEATH RECORD

Death record: Name of deceased—Henry Payne; Age—39; Sex--Male; Condition—Married ; Occupation—Farmer; Residence—Monroe Co., Ky.; Place of Birth—Monroe Co., Ky.; Names of Parents or Owners of Slave—Daniel & Martha Payne; Place of death—Monroe Co., Ky.; Time of Death—23 Oct. 1852; Cause of Death—Typhoid fever.^[7]

CHILDREN

Children of Henry and Mary Levesta “Polly” (Harris) PAYNE, all born in Monroe County, Kentucky:^[8]

• i. WILLIAM THOMAS PAYNE, b. 1 Mar. 1836; m. ELIZA ANN CONKIN.
• ii. SARAH THOMAS PAYNE, b. 29 Mar. 1838; m. PATTERSON SHELTON “PAT” BRAY.
• iii. JOURDAN THOMAS PAYNE, b. 16 Aug. 1840; m. MARY SUSAN QUIGLEY.
• iv. MARTHA TEMPLE THOMAS PAYNE, b. 11 Dec. 1842; m. ALEXANDER FRANKLIN MORROW.
• v. FRANCIS H.T. PAYNE, b. 14 June 1845; m. LYDIA ANN ADWELL.
• vi. MARY SUSAN PAYNE, b. 11 or 7 Feb. 1848; m. HENRY NEWEL BRAY.
• vii. JAMES HORTON PAYNE, b. 10 Nov. 1850; m. (1) ELIMIRA WALTZ; m. (2) FRANCES L. “FRANKIE” FRAZIER.
• viii. HENRY M. “DOC” PAYNE, b. 26 Feb. 1853 [posthumous].

Sources

1. ↑ My grandmother supplied this date in her Record of the Payne Family.
2. ↑ Death record of Henry Payne, son of Daniel and Martha, Monroe Co. Deaths, Kentucky Vital Records, Series 3, Vol. 86, p. 3. John C. Graves, Family Group sheet for Daniel and Martha (Frazier) Payne, 10 Jan. 1960; Birth record of Henry M. Payne, son of Henry Payne and Mary L. Harris, Monroe Co.,Ky., VR; William Thomas Payne, Missouri death certificate #9077 (1911) MSA [parents confirmed; mother’s surname only]; Martha Temple Thomas Morrow, Missouri death certificate #11408 (1922) MSA [parents confirmed; informant: Florence C. Hoffman]; Jordan T. Payne, Missouri death certificate #28549 (1918) MSA [parents confirmed].
3. ↑ Birdwell, Early MC Marriages.
4. ↑ On the 1880 census, Mary listed North Carolina as the birthplace of both her parents.
5. ↑ Date from my grandmother’s Record.
6. ↑ My grandmother, who was 19 when her grandmother died, said the old woman suddenly cried out, “O Lord a mercy, Marthy, I’ve swallowed a mouthful of pins!” Death date from my grandmother’s Record.
7. ↑ Ancestry.com. Kentucky, Death Records, 1852-1953 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2007. Original data: Kentucky. Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records – Microfilm (1852-1910). Microfilm rolls #994027-994058. Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives, Frankfort, Kentucky.
8. ↑ In my grandmother’s Record of the Payne Family, she named Henry Payne’s father and grandfather, providing birthdates for Henry, his wife, and his father; then she named all the children of Henry and Mary (Harris) Payne, and recorded their birthdates; then all the children of Mary (Harris) (Payne) Matthews and her second husband. My grandmother--Maud Ellen (Morrow) Boyd--seems to have copied all this information from a family Bible, probably belonging to her own grandmother, Mary (Harris) Payne—all names and dates she supplied check out with public records about the Henry Payne family.

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• Richard Sears' "Pioneer Families of Sullivan Co., MO"

Richard Sears' comments on his grandmother's recollections of her family.