Cass City Chronicle
Friday, April 2, 1926
Vol. 21, No. 47
Calvin Patterson Fatally Injured
Calvin Patterson, 18, son of Mr. and Mrs. Chas. E. Patterson of Cass City, was fatally injured when the Buick sedan he was driving was struck by the morning train at the P., O. & N. R. R. crossing on West Main St., at nine o'clock Saturday. His skull was crushed and he suffered severe scalp wounds and other injuries about the head. He did not regain consciousness and death came about six hours after the accident.
The sedan was carried down the track ahead of the engine for several hundred feet before the train could be stopped and was totally wrecked. Mr. Patterson was on his way to the home of his sister, Mrs. Claud Wood, who lived a mile west of town, when the accident occured.
This is the second accident at the Main Street crossing in less than three weeks. At the first on March 10, Alex Brian and Glenn Wright were struck by the south-bound passenger train. Both men were injured, but not seriously, and both have recovered.
Calvin Patterson was born in Cass City on May 1, 1907, and has spent his entire life here. The young man was a senior in high school and treasurer of his class, and would have graduated next June. He was an excellent student, had won honors in his high school studies, was prominent in high school athletics, and was a young man who commanded the respect of his acquaintances. The sudden passing has caused great sorrow in the community.
The funeral was delayed until Wednesday because of the absence of his brother, Grant, on a trip to Western states. He was located at Salt Lake City, Utah, on Sunday and arrived home Tuesday evening. The service was held at the family residence at two o'clock and was conducted by Rev. C.F. Smith, pastor of the Evangelical church, of which Mr. Patterson was a member. Members of the Class of '26 attended the funeral in a body and interment was made in Elkland cemetery. Business houses were closed during the funeral hour.
Besides his parents, deceased leaves one brother, Grant, and one sister, Mrs. Claude Wood, both of Cass City.
Out of town relatives and friends at the funeral were Lloyd Phelps of St. Thomas, Ont., Mrs. John Austin of Fort Wayne, Ind., Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Schleuter of Kendalville, Ind., Mr. and Mrs. H.H. Patterson of Flint, Mrs. James Starr and daughter, Evan, and Earl Starr and Buel Starr, all of Pontiac, Fred Striffler of Caro, Harry Hartshorne of Deckerville, Mr. and Mrs. Thad Patterson and daughter, Vernice, of Argyle, Mr. and Mrs. Louis Stiffler of Detroit, D.C. McIntyre of Freeland, and Mr. and Mrs. Bueschlen and Mrs. Dorman of Snover.
(Transcribed by Melinda McLemore Strong, January 2008)
Cass City Chronicle
Thursday, January 3, 1974
Page 6
Hold Services for Mrs. C. Wood
Mrs. Claude Wood, 72, succumbed Thursday, Dec. 27, in Hills and Dales Hospital.
Born in Sanilac county, Jan. 23, 1901, she was the daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Charles Patterson.
The former Cecile Hester Patterson and Mr. Wood were married in Caro Oct. 25, 1923, and the couple made their home in Ellington township.
The Woods celebrated their 50?sup?th?/sup? wedding anniversary Oct. 25, 1973. She had been a member of Salem United Methodist Church for 65 years.
Survivors include her husband; one son, Robert Wood of Cass City; one daughter, Mrs. Carlton (Beatrice) RONDO of Caro; one brother, Grant Patterson of Perry, Mi., and five grandchildren.
Funeral services were held Sunday, Dec. 30, at Little's Funeral Home. The Rev. Ira Wood officiated.
Burial was in Elkland cemetery.
(Transcribed by Melinda McLemore Strong, March 2008)
In the STRIFFLER-BENKELMAN BROADCAST, Volume 9, September 2, 1946, it was reported that Chas. Patterson retired in April after 24 years in business.
Cass City Chronicle
Thursday, September 3, 1964
Volume 58, Number 21
Village Mourns Death of Clerk C.E. Patterson
Cass City lost one of its best-known and most colorful citizens Wednesday, Aug. 26, with the death of Charles E. Patterson, 95, Michigan's oldest township clerk.
Patterson died suddenly at his home. Funeral services were held Saturday at Little's Funeral Home with Rev. R.E. Butts, EUB Chruch pastor, officiating.
Cass City businessmen paid their respects to Patterson by flying their flags and by closing during funeral services.
Michigan's oldest township clerk, in both service and age, Patterson spent his early years as a house builder and owner of several village businesses.
He suffered a severe stroke a year ago last spring but recovered and returned to his clerking, a post he has held since 1928.
Born in Simcoe, Ont., Sept. 9, 1868, he was the son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Harlan Patterson. He came to Michigan when a young man and settled in Argyle.
He married Miss Christina Striffler in Cass City Nov. 9, 1898, and they settled in Argyle until 1903 when they move to Cass City. Mrs. Patterson died April 30, 1954.
Patterson was an honorary member of the Rotary International of Cass City and was one of two members specially honored at a January, 1960, Rotary meeting.
Surviving are: a daughter, Mrs. Claude (Cecile) Wood of Cass City; a son, Grant of Perry; three grandchildren, and five great-grandchildren. A son, two brothers and two sisters preceded him in death.
Interment was in Elkland Cemetery.
(Transcribed by Melinda McLemore Strong, January 2008)
1910 Census
Michigan, Tuscola County, Elkland Twp, Cass City Village
Enumerated 19 Apr 1910
SD 8 ED 113 Sheet 8B
78-78
Patterson, Charles E Hd M W 39 M1 12 Mich Canada Eng Germany Salesman Implements
Patterson, Christina A Wife F W 35 M1 12 3/3 Mich Germany Germany
Patterson, Cecil H Dtr F W 9 S Mich Mich Mich
Patterson, Grant E Son M W 7 S Mich Mich Mich
Patterson, Calvin C Son M W 3 S Mich Mich Mich English
1880 Census
Texas, Johnson County, JP 5
Page 21 SD 6? ED 85 Stamped 349 A.
176-176
Patterson, D. B W M 28 Farmer Ala Ala Alal
Patterson, E F W F 33 Wf Keeping House Tx Ala Ala
1900 Census
Texas, Johnson County, JP 1
Enumerated 16 Jun 1900
SD 6 ED 55 Sheet 11A Stamped 64
193-193
Patterson, David B Hd W M Apr 1852 48 m 24 Ala Ala Ala Farmer
Patterson, Elizabeth Wf W F Mar 1846 54 M 24 0/0 Tx Tenn Tenn
Brown, Jno B Relationship: Harlin? W M Dec 1879 20 S Tx Tenn Tenn Farm Laborer
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Name: Della Martha Brooks
Death Date: 13 Feb 1955
Death Place: Marshall, Harrison, Texas
Gender: Female
Race: White
Death Age: 79 years 16 days
Estimated Birth Date:
Birth Date: 28 Jan 1876
Birthplace: Rusk County, Texas
Marital Status: Married
Spouse's Name:
Father's Name: Leonard Patterson
Father's Birthplace: Alabama
Mother's Name: Martha Chapman
Mother's Birthplace: Alabama
Occupation: Housewife
Place of Residence: Marshall, Harrison, Texas
Cemetery: New Prospect
Burial Place: Rusk County, Texas
Burial Date: 14 Feb 1955
Additional Relatives:
Film Number: 2114385
Digital Film Number: 4167357
Image Number: 1293
Reference Number: CN7994
Collection: Texas Deaths, 1890-1976
Name: Doris Patterson Perigo
Death Date: 14 Apr 1964
Death Place: South Houston, Harris, Texas
Gender: Female
Race: White
Death Age: 57 years 2 months 23 days
Estimated Birth Date:
Birth Date: 21 Feb 1907
Birthplace: Texas
Marital Status: Married
Spouse's Name:
Father's Name: Walter Patterson
Father's Birthplace:
Mother's Name: Mae White
Mother's Birthplace:
Occupation: Linotype Opr.
Place of Residence: South Houston, Harris, Texas
Cemetery: Hemphill
Burial Place: Hemphill, Texas
Burial Date: 16 Apr 1964
Additional Relatives: X
Film Number: 2117486
Digital Film Number: 4028427
Image Number: 2480
Reference Number: v X cn 30852
Collection: Texas Deaths, 1890-1976
Mr. James Hobart Patterson, age 86, of San Augustine County,Texas entered into rest Friday, October 12, 2012, in Hemphill, Texas. He was born May 9, 1926, in Ridgeway, Hopkins County, Texas, to the late Raymond and Lou (Anderson) Patterson.
During WWII James joined the U.S. Army, where he served in Korea. After his service duty, he and his wife Billie Rose (Birdwell) moved to Beaumont. There he began a career with Mobil Oil which lasted for 33 years. James and Billie then returned to their farm in San Augustine County to enjoy their retirement. His greatest pleasure was in spending time with his family and friends in the country. Whether they were there for hunting, fishing or just having fun, every one was always welcome. He was a member of Pineland United Methodist Church.
He will be greatly missed by his wife of 64 years Billie Rose (Birdwell) Patterson of San Augustine County, Texas; daughter Brenda Chirafis and husband Michael of China, Texas; son James Patterson Jr. and wife Dodie of Wimberly, Texas; grandchildren Michael Chirafis Jr., Lydia Chirafis, Mason Chirafis and Emma Chirafis; and sister Wanda Lee Smith of Cash, Texas.
He was preceded in death by his parents, 1 brother and 4 sisters.
Funeral services will be held Monday, October 15, 2012, 11:00 A.M., Wyman Roberts Memorial Chapel, with Bro. Carl and Bro. Leo Wright officiating. Visitation will be Sunday, October 14, 2012, 5:00 p.m. until 8:00 p.m., Wyman Roberts Funeral Home. Burial will be in the Little Flock Cemetery, San Augstine County. Pallbearers will be James Patterson Jr., Mike Chirafis Sr., Mike Chirafis Jr., Andrew Chirafis, Greg McDaniel and Rusty Birdwell. Honorary pallbearers are Tex Birdwell Sr. and Todd Birdwell.
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Name: James Leonard Patterson
Death Date: 11 Aug 1949
Death Place: Rural Prect. 1, Rusk, Texas
Gender: Male
Race: White
Death Age: 71 years 3 months 6 days
Estimated Birth Date:
Birth Date: 05 May 1878
Birthplace: Rusk County, Texas
Marital Status: Married
Spouse's Name:
Father's Name: L. H. Patterson
Father's Birthplace: Alabama
Mother's Name: Molly Chapman
Mother's Birthplace: Texas
Occupation: Farmer
Place of Residence: Rural, Prect. 1, Rusk, Texas
Cemetery: Bridges Cemetery
Burial Place: Rusk County, Texas
Burial Date: 13 Aug 1949
Additional Relatives:
Film Number: 2223522
Digital Film Number: 4169138
Image Number: 1408
Reference Number: 39867
Collection: Texas Deaths, 1890-1976
1870 Census
Texas, Rusk County, JP 4, PO Henderson
Enumerated 7 Sep 1870
Page 236
562-573
Patterson, L. H. 28 M W Farmer 150 Ala
Patterson, Martha A 25 F W Keeping House Ala
Patterson, Emma 3 F W At Home Tx
Patterson, Lula A 1 F W At Home Tx
Patterson, A. B. 27 M W Farmer 150 Ala
1880 Census
Texas, Rusk County
Enumerated June 1880
Page 70 SD 1 ED 75
603-646
Patterson, Lenard W M 38 Farmer Ala Ga Ga
Patterson, Martha W F 36 Wf Keeping House Ala Ga Ga
Patterson, Emma W F 12 Dtr Tx Ala Ala
Patterson, Mollie W F 8 Dtr Tx Ala Ala
Patterson, Robt W M 6 Son Tx Ala Ala
Patterson, Della W F 4 Dtr Tx Ala Ala
Patterson, Lenard W M 2 Son Tx Ala Ala
1900 Census
Texas, Rusk County, JP 3, Church Hill
Enumerated 15 Jun 1900
SD 7 ED 84 Sheet 10B
178-179
Patterson, L. H. Head W M Dec 1841 58 M 21 Ala Ga Ga Farmer
Patterson, Sarah Wf W F May 1856 m 21 10/5 Tx NC Nc
Patterson, Johnnie Son W M July 1880 19 S Tx Ala Tx Farm Laborer
Patterson, Agrippa Son W M Aug 1890 9 S Tx Ala Tx At School
Patterson, Callie Dtr W F July 1893 6 S Tx Ala Tx
Blanton, Nellie Grdtr W F July 1899 1 S Tx Ala Tx
Patterson, A. B. Brother W M Mch 1843 57 Wd Ala Ga Ga
1910 Census
Texas, Rusk County, JP
Enumerated 27 Apr 1910
SD 3 ED 52 Sheet 11B
200-209
Patterson, Lin H Head M W 68 m2 21 Ala Ga Ga Farmer General Farm
Patterson, Sarah J Wf F W 53 M2 21 5/2 Tx NC NC
Patterson, Callie Dtr F W 16 S Tx Ala Tx
Patterson, Agrippa B Brother M W 67 Wd Ala Ga Ga Farmer General Farm
The Sabine County Reporter
April 19, 1995, Page 10
Onie Mae Robbins
Onie Mae Robbins, 90, who lived on Barber Street in Hemphill, died at 10:45 Tuesday, April 11, 1995, at Hemphill Care Center.
Born Aug. 30, 1904, in Milam as a daughter of the late Walter and Mae (White) Patterson, she was a lifelong resident of Sabine County. Mrs. Robbins was a member of the First Baptist Church and a homemaker.
She is survived by a son, W. L. "Buster" Robbins of Hemphill. She was preceded in death by her husband, Lee Robbins.
Funeral services were held at 10 a.m. Friday at the chapel of Starr Funeral Home Inc. in Hemphill with Bro. W. Clarence Howell officiating. Interment followed at Hemphill City Cemetery.
Pallbearers: Billy Cannon, Billy Speights, Bill Barcheers, Buford Hughes, Clement McDaniel, and Eugene Procella.
(Transcribed by Melinda McLemore Strong, April 2009)
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Name: Robert Walter Patterson
Death Date: 19 Oct 1952
Death Place: Dawson, Navarro, Texas
Gender: Male
Race: White
Death Age: 78 years 11 months 19 days
Estimated Birth Date:
Birth Date: 30 Oct 1873
Birthplace: Texas
Marital Status: Married
Spouse's Name:
Father's Name: L. H. Patterson
Father's Birthplace: Ala.
Mother's Name: Martha Chapman
Mother's Birthplace:
Occupation: Farmer
Place of Residence: Dawson, Navarro, Texas
Cemetery: Dawson Cemetery
Burial Place: Dawson, Texas
Burial Date: 20 Oct 1952
Additional Relatives: X
Film Number: 2113630
Digital Film Number: 4167257
Image Number: 1807
Reference Number: cn50993
Collection: Texas Deaths, 1890-1976
His tombstone instead shows 1868-1943. The transcription of this cemetery by Kay Parker McCary indicates he was the son of James H. Patterson and Malissa E. Evans.
Cass City Chronicle
December 6, 1989
Page 2
Cass City Personal & Social
Mrs. Laura BALL was notified of the death of her aunt, Mrs. George (Ruth) CROCKER. She was a resident in the nursing home in Frankenmuth. Laura BALL, Mr. and Mrs. Donald BALL and 2 sons were at the Cederburg Funeral Home in Saginaw Sunday. Mrs. Crocker's funeral was held Monday.
His Texas Death certficate shows him as a son of John Patton and Mary Lou Crow. His usual occupation was that of Farming. Informant was Virginia Patton, his daughter.
1930 US Census
Oklahoma, Grady County, Chickasha District 8
801 Ilinois Avenue
Patty, Walter E Head O $800 M W 34 M 21 Mo Mo Mo
Patty, Hollie M Wife F W 29 M 16 Tx Ga Tx
Patty, Leo R Son M w 8 S Ok Mo Tx
Patty, Leon D Son M W 5 S Ok Mo Tx
Patty, Donald J Son M W 1 ? S Ok Mo Tx
Hemphill High School's classes of 1946, 1947 and 1948 met on April 20 at The Garden Center in Hemphill for their 56th, 55th and 54th reunions. Shown are, from left, front: Vermell (Anderson) Brust, Dorothy (Sterle) Vaughn and Berintha (Mound) Bradley; center: LaNell (Slay) Short, Nadine (EASLEY) Gary, LaNorma (Cordray) Easley and Mildred (McDaniel) Hooks; and back; Laura (McGraw) Ezernack, Jimmy Procel, Dorothy (Stewart) Birdwell, Lois (Paudert) Crnkovic, Sutton Ware, Dorothy Jean (Bennett) McCoy, Louise (Crnkovic) Pate and Lorene (Boyett) Wood.
Sabine County Reporter
July 12, 2006
Hemphilll Elementary School Fifth Grade -1939-1940
Eighteen students from a larger group, pictured, graduated from Hemphill High School's Class of 1946 who recently enjoyed their 60th class reunion. Blake Eddings, Nadine Easley, LaNell Slay, Robert Earl Gray, Gladys Hogue, Wayford Jones, Jack Chisum, Reba Arnold, Lexie Mae Wood, Berintha Maund, Helen Rushing, Evelyn Wright, Dorothy Sterle, Wilma Lawrence, Joe (Gwen/Quinn) McGown, Doris Anderson, Paul Huffman, Eloise Inman, Archie Jones, Vermell Anderson, LaVern Wright, LOIS PAUDERT, Billy Edgar, Sutton Ware, Jessie Lee Harper, Wynell Elliott, Jack Jones, Doris Jennings, Burtis Earl Moore, Hattie Pearl Kelly, Imogene Carlton, Kathryn Curry, Marcus Huffman, Jimmie Procell, Emma Clark Fuller, Marjorie Crawford, Louise Crnkovic, Gloria Speights, and Herman Chop.
Obituary
Shreveport, LA- Hellen (Lois) Crnkovic, age 86, of Shreveport, Louisiana entered into eternal peace on Wednesday, March 9th 2016.
Lois was born on September 14, 1929 in Fairmount, Texas, the only child of the late Pierce (PEP) and Ruby Paudert. She grew up in Hemphill, Texas helping PEP in his mattress factory and Ruby sell Avon cosmetics. Lois graduated from Hemphill High School in May 1946. She then married the love of her life, Frank Crnkovic, in November 1949. Frank retired from Kansas City Southern Railroad, after 40 years of service, and together they spent their retirement years vacationing and touring America. In 2012, Lois was preceded in death by her beloved husband of 62 years.
Mrs. Crnkovic was a devout Christian and a member of Saint Mary of the Pines Catholic Church since 1973. She was a member of the Knights of Columbus Ladies Auxiliary. Lois was a loving and gentle soul that dedicated her life to nurturing and caring for her husband and children. Mrs. Crnkovic spent many days volunteering at her children's school in the library, concession stand and at school functions.
Left to cherish beautiful memories are her children Duane Crnkovic, Elizabeth Ann Crnkovic Goelden and Marsha Crnkovic Everett; grandchildren Frank Johnson, Rodney Crnkovic, Dara Martin and husband Jeremy Martin, Christina Copeland and husband Adam Hofslund, and Justin Goelden and wife Rebeca Goelden; great grandchildren Krystal and Hailey Martin; and cousin/spiritual sister, Reba Jean Clark Barnett.
Friends and family are invited to attend visitation on Tuesday, March 15th from 5 - 7 p.m. and Wednesday, March 16th from 8:30 - 9:15 a.m. at Centuries Memorial Funeral Home, 8801 Mansfield Road, Shreveport, LA 71118 (318) 686-4334. Funeral Mass will be held on Wednesday, March 16th at 10 a.m. at Saint Mary of the Pines Catholic Church,1050 Bert Kouns Industrial Loop, Shreveport, LA 71118.
Pallbearers are Frank Johnson, Justin Goelden, Adam Hofslund, Jeff Crnkovic, Mike Jones and Don Jones with Honorary Pallbearer Rodney Crnkovic.
The Crnkovic family would like to thank all our family and friends that have been supportive. We are grateful to the staff of Montclair Assisted Living and extend special thanks to Dr. David Abdehou, Renee Matheny, Melanie, Amanda, Jimmie, Lorraine, JoAnne, Sue, Ledoria, Sherry, Butch, Delores, Dorothy, Danielle, Pearl, Jasmine, Valkyrie, Tanka, Glenn, Doris, Sharon, Willie Mae, Kitchen Staff, Rachel as her sitter in the hospital and all others not mentioned by name but whom we appreciative the kindness and care they provided for our mother. We also extend a thank you to the physicians, nurses and staff at Willis Knighton Pierremont, Lifecare and Heritage Manor Stratmore.
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to Castaway Ministries, P.O. Box 17629, Shreveport, LA 71138 or Saint Mary of the Pines Catholic Church,1050 Bert Kouns Industrial Loop, Shreveport, LA 71118.
You may share words of comfort with the family by visiting www.centuriesmemorialfh.com
Published in Shreveport Times from Mar. 13 to Mar. 15, 2016
Also published in The Sabine County Reporter, April 6, 2016, Page 12
On the 1930 Sabine County, Texas census, Pierce was listed in a household consisting of himself, his wife and daughter, and his mother.
Judy Willis writes that "Pep also had a sister, Annie May Paudert, who was born 8/1897 in AR. Annie May was married twice (Frank Louis Bowers and C.W. Hale). I "lost" her after the 1920 census but know she had a daughter in 1919 (TX) and a son in 1926 (TX). "
1930 Census
Texas, Sabine County, JP 7
Enumerated 15 and 16 1930
ED 202-10 SD 19 Sheet 5A Stamped 115
89-91
Clark, Easual N Hed M W 32 M Tx Tx Tx Drayman Hauling
Clark, Bertie Wf F W 26 M 16 Tx Tx Tx
Clark, Lavern Dtr F W 8 S Tx Tx Tx
Clark, Easual Jr Son M W 7 S Tx Tx
Clark, Doil Son M W 5 S Tx Tx Tx
Clark, Knox Son m W 2 6/12 S Tx Tx Tx
Butler, Cornelius Hired Hand M Neg 13 S Tx Tx Tx Servant
90-92
Smith, Osborn Head mW 25 M Tx Tx Tx Farmer
Smith, Bradie Wf F W 28 M Tx Tx Tx
Smith, Artie Son M W 3 8/12 S Tx Tx Tx
Smith, Elbert Son M W 1 5/12 S Tx Tx Tx
Clark, Joe I Boarder M W 36 S Tx Tx Tx Drayman Hauling
92-94
Clark, Mrs. W. J. Had F W 44 Wd Tx La Tx Farmer
Clark, Edward Son m W 9 S Tx Tx Tx
Clark, Leon Son M W 7 S Tx Tx Tx
Clark, Truitt Son M W 6 S Tx Tx Tx
Clark, Paul Son M W 3 1/12 S Tx Tx Tx
93-95
Fullen, Lon A Head m W 44 M 21 Tx Tx Tx Farmer
Fullen, Edvina Wf F W53 m 18 Tx Tx La
Fullen, Hilliard Son M W 16 S Tx Tx Tx Farm Helper
Fullen, Rosella Dtr F W 14 S Tx Tx Tx Farm Helper
Fullen, Leroy Son M W 12 S Tx Tx Tx Farm Helper
94-96
Paudert, Pierse E Head M W 34 M Ark NY Ark Agent Insurance
Paudert, Ruby Wf F W 17 M Tx Tx Tx
Paudert, Elouise Dtr F W 7/12 S Tx Tx Tx
Paudert, Elizabeth Mother F W 69 Wd Ark Ark Ilkl
95-97
Clark, Mathes J head m W 32 M Tx Tx Tx Stockman Stock running
Clark, Daisy Wf F W 24 M Tx Tx Tx
Ivy, Frank Hired Had m W 78 Ev Miss Ireland Miss Farmer
96-98
Clark, Monroe Head m W 48 M 20 Tx Tx Ala Farmer
Clark, Bessie Wf F W 47 M Tx Tx Tx
Clark, Vira Dtr F W 13 S Tx Tx Tx Farm Helper
97-99
Clark, George B head M W 63 Tx Tx Tx Stockman
Clark, Bettie Wf F W 33 M 29 La La La
Doris Paul Elliott passed away peacefully on July 4, 2009, after a valiant battle with lung cancer and numerous other illnesses. She was 75. She was born in Thomson, Georgia on July 9, 1933. She is survived by Mickey Elliott, her devoted husband of 56 years; daughter Amanda Elliott of Dallas, son Michael Elliott of Austin, son Mark Elliott, his wife, Donna, three granddaughters, Nicole, Cecily and Gabriella of Schertz, Texas; sister Joyce Paul of Macon, Georgia; brother-in-law, W. R. Aufricht and his wife Martha of Dallas, and sister-in-law, Arnette Merritt of San Augustine, Texas. She was preceded in death by her mother, Mary and step-father, Emory Pollette. Funeral Services will be held in the Weed-Corley-Fish Chapel, 3125 N Lamar Blvd, at 1:00 p.m. on Tuesday, July 7, officiated by Reverend Ann Beaty of Tarrytown United Methodist Church. A private family graveside service will be held at Austin Memorial Park Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, please consider contributions to The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, P.O. Box 4486 Houston, Texas 77021-4486; Hospice Austin, 4107 Spicewood Springs Road, Ste 100, Austin, Texas 78759; Tarrytown United Methodist Church, 2601 Exposition Blvd, Austin, Texas, 78703 or to a charity of your choice. Obituary and guestbook online at wcfish.com
Bernard J. Pavelka, 78, Lincoln, died Tuesday (09/08/09), with family by his side. Bernard "Bernie" was born to James and Lillian Pavelka at Milligan, Neb. Bernard graduated from Milligan High School in 1948 and joined the military in September of 1950. Bernie married his high school sweetheart, Berniece Koca, on (06/22/52) on the Koca family farm. Bernie started his newspaper career at the Friend Sentinel, in Friend, Neb. and later worked for the Custer County Chief in Broken Bow, Neb. He worked 30 years at the Lincoln Journal Star, first as a linotype operator and finished out his career as a supervisor in the Ad Department.
Bernie was very active in his retirement with the Hallam Legion Post #294 and the 82nd Airborne, and was an avid outdoorsman and enjoyed hunting and fishing.
He is survived by: his wife of 57 years, Berniece; daughter and son-in-law, Candice "Candy" and David Johnson, Valpraiso; Deena and David Brauer, Lincoln; grandsons and wives, Jason and Tammy Johnson, Waverly; Joshua and Catrin, Columbia, Mo.; Nicholas "Nick" Brauer; granddaughter, Ashley Brauer; great grandsons, Hunter, Cooper and Cole Johnson.
Services 2 p.m. Saturday (09/12/09) at Lincoln Memorial Funeral Home 6800 South 14th St. Visitation Friday 12 noon to 8 p.m.; with the family greeting friends from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Interment, Lincoln Memorial Park. Memorials to the 82nd Airborne Division Association or Hallam American Legion Post #294. Condolences can be left at www.lincolnfh.com
Donald James Pavelka, 88 of Eufaula, Oklahoma entered into rest on April 8, 2018 in Muskogee, Oklahoma. He was born on February 22, 1930 in Milligan, Nebraska to John and Leona (Kubicek) Pavelka. He graduated from Milligan High School and later enlisted in the Navy on November 28, 1950. He was decorated with the Good Conduct Medal, Korean Service Medal, China Service Medal and United Nations Service Medal. He was honorably discharged on September 22, 1954.
Don was united in marriage to Grace Kurpicka on February 14, 1956 in Omaha, Nebraska. Don was then employed as a transportation specialist for Allied Chemical. Their marriage was blessed with four children, Deborah, Brian, Steven and Kenneth. Grace became ill and passed away on December 22, 1969. Later Don was united in marriage to Xuella Tucker on May 8, 1971 in Glenwood, Iowa. Their marriage was blessed with two more children, Denise and Rodney. They were happily married for forty-six years.
Preceding Don in passing were his parents, first wife, Grace Pavelka and grandson, Justin Pavelka. Survivors include his wife, Xuella Pavelka of Eufaula, Oklahoma; sons, Brian (Shari) Pavelka of Glenwood, Iowa; Steve Pavelka of Glenwood, Iowa; Kenneth (Jan) Pavelka of Ocoee, Florida; Rodney (Amy) Pavelka of Guthrie Center, Iowa; daughters, Deborah Wilcoxson of Glenwood, Iowa; Denise (Richard) Leonard of Lincoln, Nebraska; sister, Diana (Jim) Nichel of Western, Nebraska; 15 grandchildren, Shannon, Jeannie, Kenny Joe, Andrea, Lige, Kevin, Justin, Brenda, Candice, Kaylena, Kelsey, Matthew, Emily, Jonathan and Benjamin; 9 great-grandchildren, 2 great-great grandchildren; extended relatives and friends.
There will be luncheon following the service at the First Christian Church, 202 N. Vine Street, Glenwood, Iowa.
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.
Member of the Chickasaw Nation. Her father, Thomas Hamilton Payne (Original Enrollee #3686) was a Chickasaw by blood.
It is believed she was named after the popular Scottish Folk ballad, Annie Laurie. Her nickname, "Roonie" was also a product of popular culture, based on the Little Annie Rooney comic strip that ran during the depression.
Anna Laura was baptized in 1922, her sponsors being her Aunt and Uncle, Mr. and Mrs. J.R. Sparks. According to a brochure from the Church of the Assumption, Duncan, commemorating Religious Heritage Day on Sunday, June 28, 1992, "Both sides of Anna Laura (Roonie) Strong's family history intertwines in their settlement of Duncan before the 1900's. Her Uncle John and Aunt Annie Sparks O'Neil's home, presently the Phil Leonard home, was used regularly for masses before the first church was built in 1909. Roonie attended the first parochial school, "Joan of Arc", which had been built by one of the outstanding parish priests, Fr. J.A. Garvey, and run by Sisters of Divine Providence."
After their father left home, Bessie had trouble making enough money to support her family. When Anna Laura was 15, she and Fay were sent to Saint Elizabeth Academy, an Orphanage and Boarding School for Native American Girls in Purcell, Oklahoma. Anna Laura remembers the long train ride being frightening. Although the distance from Duncan to Purcell was not particulary long, it was a freight train and made numerous long stops. It was very late at night before they finally arrived, and they had long since finished the sack lunch their mother had made them. Lois joined them at the school when she was old enough. Both Anna Laura and Faye graduated from St. Elizabeth's. Lois returned to Duncan to live with Anna Laura, and she graduated from Duncan High School.
Anna Laura's graduation was on the 26 of May in 1931. Her diploma was signed by Rev. Jacques Van Castel, Sister Adelhelma, Sister Theresa and Sister Lena. The nuns were members of the Sisters of St. Francis. Sister Lena had arrived at St. Elizabeth between 1889 and 1890.
Sisters Adelhelma and Lena were from Germany. Sister Lena worked in the kitchen and Roonie had been assigned to help her. She recalls the day Sister Lena accidentally dropped her rosary while cooking and loudly proclaimed, "Mein Lord and Mein Gott! I dropped my Jesus in the Soup." Sister Lena presented this same rosary to Anna Laura as a graduation gift, in memory of the work and faith they had shared. An article about the history of this school is contained under the "research" tab of these notes.
When Roonie's children were all school age, she returned to work. She was the head cook at first the parochial school in Duncan, and later at Duncan Junior High School. She held this position for approximately 20 years.
Roonie and her sisters Fay and Lois remained close friends throughout their adult lifes, often traveling together.
The Duncan Banner, Sept. 16, 2004 Anna Laura 'Roonie' Payne Strong
Anna Laura "Roonie" Payne Strong, 90, of Duncan, died Wednesday, Sept. 15, 2004, in her home. Funeral will be at 10 a.m. Saturday in Assumption Catholic Church with the Rev. Victor John officiating. Burial will be in Duncan City Cemetery, under direction of Don Grantham Funeral Home.
A rosary service will be held at 7 p.m. Friday in the funeral home chapel. Roonie was born Oct. 23, 1913, in Alma (sic) to Thomas H. and Bessie Gentry Payne. She married Homer Richard Strong on Oct. 23, 1931 (sic), in Waurika. He preceded her in death on Sept. 19, 1990.
Roonie was a graduate of St. Elizabeth's Academy in Purcell in 1931. She later attended Duncan Business School. She was employed by the Duncan Public School System for 28 years before retiring.
She was a member of Assumption Catholic Church, where she sang in the choir for 60 years and was a member of the Ladies' Altar Society. She was also a member of the Fatima Study Club and was a citizen of the Chickasaw Nation.
She was a wonderful homemaker, wife, mother and grandmother.
Survivors include five sons and spouses: Charles and Pat Strong of Edinburg, Texas, Bill and Betty Strong of Yukon, Tom and Vickie Strong of Laveen, Ariz., and John and Brenda Strong, and Paul David and Jane Strong, all of Duncan; a daughter, Caroline Brasher of Duncan; a sister, Lois Marie Payne Hanna of Oklahoma City; 22 grandchildren and 33 great-grandchildren.
She was also preceded in death by her parents; a daughter, Theresa Marie Rutledge; a great-granddaughter, Alexandra Kathrine Brasher in 1994; and a sister, Fay Pierce Yeager. Bearers will be her grandsons.Memorial contributions may be made to Chisholm Trail Hospice, P.O. Box 2000, Duncan, OK 73534-2000.
(Research):BELOW IS A TRANSCRIPTION OF AN ARTICLE ABOUT ST. ELIZABETH'S ACADEMY
A PIONEER PASSES
By Mary Jo Turner
Sunday, August 15, 1948
The Daily Oklahoman
D-Three
Purcell, Aug. 14-Historic St. Elizabeth's convent, which for 60 years played a vital part in cultural development of Indian territory and early growth and education of Oklahoma, is closing its doors September 1 for lack of funds.
Founded in February, 1888, one year before Oklahoma was opened to settlement and barely a year after Purcell was established as a junction point on the Santa Fe, it is one of Oklahoma's most famous old schools.
The spacious, roomy, two-storied frame building, set in a grassy plot with a peaceful background of slender poplars, elms and cedars, is still a thing of considerable beauty. For many years it was the only educational landmark in an unsettled area, and the sight of students playing about its grounds, supervised by the black-robed nuns, against the bright southwestern skies, has become familiar to nearly all Oklahomans who have lived here any length of time.
When St. Elizabeth's convent was founded, in 1888, Purcell was a part of the Chickasaw nation of the old Indian territory, and the gateway to the great ranching empire which lay to the west and south. The country then was all pastureland, heavily wooded and a ranch of 10,000 to 20,000 acres was commonplace. Most of the settlers were Chickasaws, but here were also Choctaw families, and a good many white settlers. All were eager to send their children to school and the news that St. Elizabeth's convent had opened in Purcell was welcomed far and wide. Families packed their children and brought them to board and room at the convent, or if there was no space there, boarded them in homes and they attended day school.
Three eager young nuns, all now dead, of the Order of St. Francis, made their way west from Philadelphia and arrived in Purcell on Feb. 14, 1888. They were the late Sister Barbara, Sister Mary Joachim and Sister Patricia. At the time there was under construction a three-room frame building on the same lot where the Benedictine priests had built a one-room church. Sunday services were conducted in the church which on week days was converted into two school rooms by hanging a heavy carpet to form a partition. In one room a Miss Fritch taught the boys, whil in the other room Sister Mary Patricia taught the girls. By November, however, the new three-room frame building was completed and enrolment consisted of 120 pupils. Ages of these pupils ranged from 6 to 18 years. Soon, there were 25 boarders, then 50. The one-room frame building was used for boys.
Money for the grounds, buildings and teachers was paid for by Miss Katherine Drexel of the wealthy Philadelphia Drexel family. She had become interested in educating the Indians through the efforts of Father Vincent Jolly, O.S.B., who taught at the Sacred Heart academy situated in unsettled wilderness in what is now Pottawatomie county. Father Jolly, accompanied by Father William Capital, took turns in coming to Purcell to hold services. Father Jolly told Miss Drexel of the Indian boys and girls who needed educational opportunities, and described the great wilderness, which pioneers were still to conquer. One church was unable to bear the expense. But Miss Drexel could and did for 60 years.
Miss Drexel furnished money for the grounds, buildings and early support, and a new building site was selected in 1891 by the Very Rev. Ignatius Jean, Benedictine priest, while Rev. F. Steven, director of the Indian bureau, gave the plans of the building to Miss Drexel. At her instigation, Archbishop Ryan of Philadelphia designated the Sisters of St. Francis of the Philadelphia Foundation, Mother House in Glen Riddle, Pa., to take charge of the mission. Miss Drexel also offered to pay of the sister's support.
In an area known as Love's pasture, named for the late Robert Love, Purcell's founder, who proved to be very helpful to the new school, ground was broken and the building erected which still stands today. On the second floor near the chapel is a bronze plaque dedicated to the founder, the late Father Vincent Jolly.
In the summers of 1889 and 1890, three more sisters, Sister Valentine, Sister Lena, and Sister Ludemiller joined the little bands of nuns and in 1891, Sister Mary Teresa, who is now the only one of the early group left, came to teach.
Sister Teresa, now the Sister Superior of St. Elizabeth's convent, is 80. She is small of stature, being only 4 feet 9 inches in height and is slender and frail. Born in Philadelphia Ja. 29, 1868, she was an only child of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Caterson, also natives of Philadelphia. In May, 1888, she took her vows at Our Lady of Angels convent at Glen Riddle, Pa., and taught one year in Wilmington, Pa. The death of her mother the next year left her free for her appointment ot the new convent in the Indian territory. On the way to the new town of Purcell, she has two companions, twos sisters who were going to the missions near Pawhuska in the Osage nation. She she came alone from St. Louis and arrived at Purcell on Sept. 4, 1891, just in time to see the ground being broken for the present site.
Government support by which the Indian girls' tuition was paid in part by the government was withdrawn in 1932......(Causing the sisters) to run the institution on practically no income except from Miss Drexel. For some time the sisters kept the girls without government aid from their own slender resources as teachers. Continued maintenance was impossible during these depressing days. This meant that the girls representing the Chickasaw, Choctaw, Cherokee and Pottawatomie tribes as well as others in all probability would be deprived of an eduation.
However, through the mediation of George C. Wells, at that time supervisor of Indian education, Oklahoma district, and Chief Dwight, chief of the Choctaw nation, a contract of 10 was received. But things have changed during the "war" years. There is a scarcity of teachers and enrollment is down. All in all, it seemed best to close the doors.
So historic St. Elizabeth is closing its doors. And good little Sister Superior Teresea will teach no more. She will take a long rest. She would like to spend the rest of her life in Purcell but will go where the church decrees.
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According to THE PAYNES OF VIRGINIA, "Vincent Cox [ca. 1704 in Westmoreland County, VA], m. Anne Payne and d. 1712 leaving a will naming daus. Winifred and Anne. To Winifred he gave a slave named Garter, who had been left to her mother Anne Payne in William Payne's will, and a diamond ring that had belonged to said Anne Payne."
Kentucky Death Records, 1852-1953, on Ancestry.com show her as Artinussie Marshall, born in Kentucky on 18 Dec 1844 to Robert Payne (b. Kentucky) and Nancy Scott (b. Kentucky). She was listed as widowed, and was living with her daughter at the time of her death. The informant on the death certificate was Mrs. Nancy Gibson, presumable her daughter. She was buried in the Marshall Cemetery. In 1860, Artemesia was living with her paretns and siblings in Breckenridge County, KY.
1860 Census
Kentucky, Breckenridge County, District 1
Enumerated 18 Jun 1860
Page 35
226-221
Robert Payne 45 M Farmer 3000 3000 Va
Nancy Payne 40 F Ky
Samuel Payne 20 M Ky
James Payne 18 M Ky
Thomas Payne 16 M Ky
Artemesia Payne 14 F Ky
Virginia Payne 12 F Ky
Priscilla Payne 10 F Ky
John Payne 7 M Ky
Letitice Payne 3 F Ky
227-222
Wm. and Martha SCOTT (ages 24 and 23)
Educated at West Point and also attended Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky. In 1810, he was appointed by President Madison as Indian Sub-agent and stationed at Fort Madison and Fort Snelling. Was a Major in the War of 1812 and aide-de-camp to his father, General John Payne. He was at Fort Meigs during the siege by the British and Indians. After the war he farmed in Scott County and served as Justice of the Peace. (Payne, p. 262).
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.
31 Aug 1832 he made a statement before the Justices of Fq. Co. in connection with his pension application in which he stated that he was b. 11 Dec 1762 (sic) in Fq. Co. These pension records contain transcripts for his Prayer Book, in which entries were made by James Wood of Fq. Co., a school-teacher and near neighbor of Augustine Payne's. The Prayer Book gave his birth 11 Dec 1761 and recorded the birth of his 11 children. He was a Presbyterian. These records also contain his widow's statement that she was m. in Cu. Co., but the m.b. is recorded in Fq. Co.
He enlisted in Fq. Co. in the Revolutionary service Nov 1780 and served till 31 May 1781. 1807 he and his wife were living in Cu. Co. This residence seems to have been temporary. Prior thereto and thereafter till he left Fq. Co, he lived near the present cemetery just outside Orlean. 1835 he moved with his family to Parke Co., Ind., 14 miles from Rockville, "in order to procure more land for his children." 1836 most of his children were living in Indiana. 1877 some of his descendants lived at or near Bridgetown, Ind. Affadavits accompanying the pension records were signed 1836 and 1844 by James Payne of Parke Co, Ind., who stated that he was "a distant relative of Augustine Payne" and that Augustine Payne had 12 children. (Payne, pp. 390-391).
According to Brooks Payne, "A friend of the Rev. and Mrs. William Payne, Mrs. Keats from England, prevailed upon them to name their son after family, promising to leave him a large estate in England, which never materialized.
He was a representative at a Secession Convention at the outbreak of the Civil War. He opposed secession and argued for compromise. For his efforts, he was murdered by bushwackers. His body was found three miles from his home."
William McClung Paxton, in this book ANNALS OF PLATTE CO, MO writes that "Elder A. H. F. Payne died by the hand of an assassin. He often preached in Platte City to the Christian Church, and was greatly beloved....He was ordained an elder at Mayslick, and after preaching in Kentucky, came, in 1836, to Clay and thence to Clinton, where he was killed. His Southern blood was the excuse for his murder."
The inventory o fhis estate is recorded in Fayette County, Kentucky. He is buried in the old Payne grave-yard at intersection of Greendale and Sandersville pikes about four miles from Lexington; grave is marked.
Mortality Schedule for 1860 Sabine County "Benjamin W. Payne, farmer, age 42, male born in Georgia, died July 1859 of drunkness, sick 42 days" No dates are inscribed on his tombstone.
Sabine County, Texas Affidavit of B. R. Payne, sworn on August 25, 1927 and witnessed by Edna Whitehead, Notary Public. B. R. Payne was age 74 at that time, and a livelong resident of Sabine County, living about two miles south of Geneva. He was also a grandson of William Roberts, and son of B. W. Payne. He stated his father died in the early sixties.
1850 Census
Texas, Sabine County, Sabine District
Enumerated 11 and 12 Oct 1850
Stamped 316
87-87
Margaret Payne 62 F $400 NC
Scott Ganntt 49 M Ga
88-88
Louisa Holoway and family
89-89
Benjamin W Payne 32 M Farmer Ga
Ursa Ann Payne 27 F La
Amanda Payne 5 F Tx
Epps Payne 3 M Tx
Sarah Agnes Payne 1 F Tx
There was a Berilla Payne on Brooke Payne's list of children that accompanied Thomas Hamilton Payne and Martha Jane Marshall to Texas. However, he was not found as a child of theirs on 1850 or 1880 census, nor is she recorded in as a sibling in the biography of William Henry Harrison Payne. Recorded by Joe Payne as having been born about 1873 in Missouri. She may have died young as Faye Payne Yeager, Lois Payne Hanna and Lewis Adair Payne all had not heard of her.
Brooke Payne may have been thinking that Thomas's sister-in-law, Berilla Jane Gash Payne (married to his brother Levi Payne) was part of Thomas's immediate family?
There is a marriage license filed April 11, 1864 certifying that L.B. Wilkes, Minister of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, did on the 6th day of April 1864 united in marriage Wm. Benj. Stephens of Rolla, Mo and Meifs (sic) Berilla C. Payne of Marion County both of the State of Missouri. This matches the marriage records (3-164). This marriage is for a Berilla Payne from an entirely different Payne family. She is listed as a daughter of Francis Payne and Harriet Bowles, and granddaughter of Jesse Payne and Rebecca Crenshaw. This PAYNE descendancy report was printed out by Charles R. Strong from the Palmyra Library computer, family tree maker file for Jesse Payne born ca 1760. This file was compiled by John Eisenberg of Palmyra. From an indenture dated January 27, 1876 we know that as of that date, Levi F. and Barrilla Jane Payne were still married.
The date and location of his birth is from the Family Bible.
Linda Miller writes that "Bert moved to Arkansas and had a farm that he worked for years he died there and
still has his only child a daughter (Christine?) and two grandchildren and many great-grandchildren living in Arkansas."
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))."
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
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.
Said to have been born in Haney, Oklahoma. He was a hobo, he would hop frieghts from Oklahoma to Arizona. staying with his brothers and sisters. Never married.
Linda Miller wrote that Jack died in a car accident when she was around eight years old (circa 1960). He ran off a bridge. It was probably around Hagerman, New Mexico, somewhere between Artesia and Roswell.
Linda also writes that Jack had a very colorful life "My dad said they called him Dakota Red?he walked with a lift on one foot because he had been shot with a tommy gun during a bank robbery he spent several years in prison off and on?in later years the drink really got to him. My dad always said he liked to drink but that he had a son that died in a school fire in Texas and after that he drank more. I remember him as a very kind man?he came to visit when I was young? I remember going to see him in a trailor when he was with a woman named Babe she was in my young eyes very pretty."
FORT COBB Funeral for Ciera R. Payne, 9, Fort Cobb, will be at 11 a.m. Thursday at Square Top Baptist Church, four miles west and one mile north of Anadarko, with J.T. Goombi and Justin Doughty officiating.
Ciera died Friday Aug. 26, 2005, at her home.
Burial will be at Oak Grove Cemetery, Fort Cobb, under direction of Comanche Nation Funeral Home.
She was born April 24, 1996, to Dean and Traci Rhoades Payne. She was known as "Toodles" to her family and played softball.
Survivors include her parents; two half-brothers: Randett Payne and Leslie Payne; two half-sisters: Christi Payne and Amy Perez; and grandparents: Roberta and Dick Owens and John Rhoades.
Friends may call from 6-9 p.m. today at the church.
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.
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
He was born near the County Line of Stephens and Carter counties, Oklahoma.
An infancy photograph taken at Cobb's Studio in Quanah, Texas, circa 1910 which suggests that Chad, as he was known, was born there? however the 1920 census gives Oklahoma as place of birth. Photograph is in the possession of Lewis Adair Payne (1997).
He was named Claude after his father, Marvin's, great life-long friend Claude Holcombe, who lived in Quanah, TX.
He is not in the Payne/Gentry family reunion photograph of 1927, when he would have been nineteen, because ... could he have already joined the army?
Military Discharge recorded in Stephens County Courthouse Book 22, page 287. Not viewed.
His marriage probably occured before July 21st. 1936 as entered above as his younger brother, Lewis Adair Payne, "lunched at Chad's and Lois's [while in Duncan]. Place certainly run down, don't believe I could live there any more."4 on that date.
Worked for OTASCO in Guthrie c. 1939. 5
1955 ? "M-Sgt. C.C. Payne
Full military funeral services for M-Sgt. Chadwick C. Payne, 47, of 1907 Ash, will be held at 10:30 Tuesday in the new Post Chapel at Fort Sill with Chaplain (1st Lt.) Charlie W. Hargrave and Rev. Russell T. Rauscher, rector of St. Andrew's Episcopal church, officiating. Burial will be in Fort Sill cemetery with Becker Funeral home in charge. Sgt. Payne, a captain in the reserve, died at 3 p.m. Saturday at the family home apparently of a heart attack. He had just been released from the hospital on a 24 hour pass at the time of his death."6
1998 ? Lewis Adair Payne, 84, ... ... ... died died Tuesday, 18 Aug. 1998, at Stillwater Medical Center [OK] .... ... ... He was predeceased by two brothers, Claude Chadwick Payne and Marvin Walter Payne and one sister Mary Olive Thompson. Survivors include his wife of fifty-five years, Lunora; two daughters; Robin White of Joplin, Mo and Penny Harvey of Glencoe, OK; and his two grand-sons Bracken White of San Francisco, Ca and Gentry White of Columbia, Mo and grand-daughter Anne Marie Busse of Joplin, Mo. ... ... ...7
Obituary
The Duncan Banner online edition
Published on February 12, 2008
Feb. 14, 1937 -Feb. 9, 2008
Retired Maj. Chad C. Payne, 70, of Duncan, died Saturday, Feb. 9, 2008, in his home with his family after a lengthy illness.Funeral will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday in Heritage Oaks Church of the Nazarene with the Rev. Bobby Howard officiating. Interment with military honors will be at 1 p.m. in Fort Sill Post Cemetery under direction of Don Grantham Funeral Home.The family will receive friends from 5 to 7 p.m. today at the funeral home.
Mr. Payne was born Feb. 14, 1937, in Duncan, to Chad C. Payne Sr. and Lois Reed Payne. He graduated from Lawton High School in 1955 and from Cameron University in 1957. He then attended the University of Oklahoma and graduated from Oklahoma State University in 1960. He married Pat Tompkins on Dec. 31, 1957, in Burkburnett, Texas.He served two tours of duty in the U.S. Army in Vietnam, flying helicopter gunships. He was awarded the Silver Star, three Distinguished Flying Crosses, Air Medal with 49 clusters, the Purple Heart, and Republic of Vietnam Cross of Gallantry.
Mr. Payne was director of the Delta Elderly Nutrition Program serving Stephens and McClain counties for 31 years.He was a very talented Western artist and enjoyed painting, classical music and gun collecting.
Survivors include his wife, Pat of the home; two sons and a daughter-in-law: Scott and Michelle Payne of Duncan, and Richard Payne of San Francisco, Calif.; a sister, Rosemary Merriman of Florida; six grandchildren: Leslie Majors, Sydney Payne and Lyndsey Payne, all of Duncan, Kale Payne of Norman, Blake Payne of Fort Drum, N.Y., and Candice Payne of Edmond; and two great-grandchildren: Chase and Hunter Majors of Duncan.
He was preceded in death by his parents.Bearers will be members of the military.Honorary bearers will be Jim Busby, Tom Cooper, Bob Crissman, Pete Iglesias, Mike Klinker, Kirby Spain, Bill Stribling, Johnnie Sweeten and Early Watkins.Memorial contributions may be made to Fresenius Dialysis Medical Center, 4516 SE Lee Blvd., Lawton, OK 73501.Online condolences may be made at www.granthamfuneralhomes.com .
The following biography was written by Ken Harvey:
Duncan veteran pioneered air mobility idea in Vietnam.
Mention Vietnam, and the image most people conjure up is one of human tragedy. The conflict left enough gaps in the populace to cover a whole wall in Washington, to say nothing of the lingering effects veterans suffer from; injuries, disease, post-traumatic stress syndrome, chemical dependency, Agent Orange and, disturbingly, neglect. It was, after all, a defeat that most Americans would sooner forget.
But today we turn to Chad Payne for a slightly different picture-that of the Vietnam veteran as a pioneer in the air mobility concept. In 1971, W.E. Butterworth wrote in his book "Flying Army" that 'the war in Vietnam, whatever else it has cost, has given the United States Army a capability in mobility by air. Without the unprecedented maneuverability of the Airmobile Division, the Vietnam conflict would have gone much worse for the United States than it did,' Butterworth said.
Payne, now project director for Delta Nutrition in Duncan, was an Army pilot when helicopters came of age. He watched them outgrow their role of flying ambulance to become gunships, transports for cargo and personnel, and flying cranes for the retrieval of downed aircraft.
To appreciate the strides in aviation that came out of Vietnam requires some understanding of what went before. Military aviation dates back to the Civil War, when Thaddeus Lowe sent up his balloons for observation purposes.
The next stage in the development of aviation is represented by the U.S. Army Signal Corps Aeronautical Division and dogfights between World War I fighter planes with dual machine guns synchronized to fire between spinning propeller blades.
Fast-forward to World War II. The Army Air Forces were created by Congress on June 20, 1941, but there were growing pains as the Air Force asserted its independence. The need for Army-owned, Army-controlled light aircraft responsive to the needs of ground forces became evident, and the Grasshoppers were born. These served as observation posts for directing artillery fire or as taxis for couriers.
Meanwhile, Russian-born Igor Sigorsky, who had shelved his idea of a helicopter in 1910 until technology had progressed enough to cope with the many problems posed by rotary-wing aircraft, decided in the 1930s that the time was ripe. By 1939, his VS-300 could stay aloft for two minutes. Two years' worth of modifications expanded that limit to 1 hour, 32 minutes, 26.1 seconds.
Others turned their minds to the problem (Stanley Hiller, Frank Piasecki and Larry Bell). During the Korean conflict, however, helicopters were used for little more than the medical evacuation purposes shown on "M*A*S*H.
Then came Vietnam.
The first people sent by President John F. Kennedy were special forces people and advisers. Helicopters made their appearance there in December 1961 with the Piasecki H- 21, a 20-passenger transport helicopter first acquired by the Army one month after the Korean armistice.
In response to a wish list known as the revised Military Characteristics for a Utility Helicopter of 1959, Bell Aircraft Co. produced the HU-1A, standing for Helicopter, Utility, Model 1, Modification A. The Army called it the Iroquois, but to Payne and his contemporaries it was simply the "Huey."
Brought to Vietnam by way of the Utility Tactical Transport Company in Okinawa, the Huey was the first turbine-powered helicopter produced in the United States.
"All of a sudden we had a relatively compact aircraft that was easy to maintain and speedier," Payne said.
In 1960, the same year that the 82nd Airborne Division began receiving them, the Rogers Board decided to put the helicopters into a more active combat role. In those days technical representatives from Bell Helicopter were in daily contact with the pilots, who used to get certificates from Bell saying that they were among the first to fly this new craft.
It was on Dec. 11, 1961, that the 57th Transportation Co. from Fort Lewis, Wash., and the 8th Transportation Co. from Fort Bragg, N.C., docked in Saigon. Aircraft were being used to transport troops in combat.
In 1962, Lt. Gen. Hamilton H. Howze, then the 18th Airborne Corps commander, was designated to set up a board to study combat mobility concentrated in the helicopter. Payne, who was going through flight school at the time the Rogers Board was in session, was by this time with the Aviation Battalion of the 82nd Airborne Division at Fort Bragg, which was part of the 18th Airborne Corps.
With a speed amazing to those who were observing the situation, the Howze Board cut through the usual bureaucratic red tape. Its recommendations were to proceed full steam ahead on the whole idea of Army Aviation and begin a divisional level troop test immediately.
After Utility Tactical Transport a Company got shot up by the Viet Cong in the initial gunship clash in January 1963, Payne saw the Army begin to replace Huey A's with B's in May-June 1963. The A's had a 550-hp engine. The B's initially had a 960-hp engine, but later it was beefed up to 1100 hp with a few modifications. The engine weighed 595 pounds and could be changed in the field in 30 minutes. It also had blades that could chop through trees to get into tight places; the old H-21 had had wooden blades.
"The aircraft was designed to work on, to fly, to use," Payne said.
It was still designed for "med evac, but it could hold a command control console for controlling a whole operation; haul cargo and troops into combat; broadcast messages or drop leaflets for propaganda purposes; and then there was Payne's favorite use: by mounting guns and rockets on it, the helicopter became a fighter bomber.
When his superiors learned he had flown H-21s in flight school and had 500 hours of flight time in Hueys, Payne was sent to the 33rd Transportation Co. at Bien Hoa.
"We began to concentrate on implementing the concepts initially spawned by the Rogers Board and tested by the Howze Board," Payne said.
The 33rd Transportation Co. became the 118th Aviation Co., and by the end of September, they were all flying the Huey B model. There were two platoons of 'slicks' used as cargo/personnel transports and armed with machine guns in the doors. There was one platoon of gunships equipped with machine guns and rockets. Payne ended up as an instructor pilot of the gunship platoon. His job was to make sure everyone was current in the M-6 weapons system, which consisted of four machine guns on a flexible mount that could be aimed by the co-pilot.
"We wanted more firepower, so we came up with a jury-rigged rocket system. We scrounged and stole parts from various places and had to do our own wiring. I spent a lot of time down at UTT learning to build and employ weapons systems because that was the only gunship company in the world."
"We ended up with a rocket system which we bolted to the gun mount. It held 16 rockets. if one was hot, you were stuck with it. The rocket tube would blow up. Sometimes it would cause damage, sometimes not. You never knew what might happen when you hit the trigger. You might end up in a rice paddy running from your helicopter 'cause it was about to explode."
In November 1963 Payne was on the way to mess hall when he heard that the president had been shot in Dallas. Coming as it did one month after the Vietnamese overthrow in which they used a barricade of tanks to keep the U.S. troops from interfering, it gave him a strange feeling to be in a foreign country and hear of Kennedy's assassination.
Activity picked up in December. A co-pilot, Lynn Rothenbuhler of Fort Wayne, Ind., was killed instantly by a single bullet that month. Within a week, two gunships from UTT were lost. Both pilots had been Payne's friends back in the 82nd Aviation Battalion. A complete crew was lost on one. The other was shot down in the Mekong, and only two survivors were pulled from the water. For the rest of Payne's tour, the 118th Aviation Co. operated all over the country from Camau in the south to Quang Ngai in the north.
Gunships generally flew in pairs for protection, but Payne's was the exception. Col. Kenneth D. Mertel liked to fly in a gunship, and he wanted to fly with an instructor pilot.
"We used to get into some hellacious gunfights. If we'd ever been knocked down, we would have been MIA because there was nobody to pick us up," Payne said.
Payne returned to the States in May 1964 to the next development in air mobility, the 11th Air Assault Division at Fort Benning, Ga. After a three-month-long field problem in which he went up against his alma mater, he was sent as part of a mission to help settle problems in the Dominican Republic. He spent the first anniversary of his return from Vietnam in the Dominican Republic, musing that he had hardly seen his family since he had been back.
Payne was one of only 300 who could wear the 11th Air Assault badge on his right shoulder to indicate combat. The next thing he knew, he was hearing a speech by President Lyndon B. Johnson that the 11th Air Assault had been redesignated as the 1st Cavalry and was going to Vietnam. Payne was soon told he didn't have to go unless he wanted.
The reason was that he had already had two combat tours within a year. Having returned in May 1964 from one tour of duty in Vietnam, he was sent with the 11th Air Assault to quell problems in the Dominican Republic and spent the first anniversary of his return there, wondering when he would ever get to see his family.
Payne spent one month training new members of the Ist Cavalry, checking people and getting them ready for Vietnam. Then he went to Fort Rucker, Ala., where he became a gunnery instructor. (Fort Sill had been home to the Army Aviation School until August 1954, when it was relocated to Fort Rucker because the other combat arms of the Army objected to the prospect of artillery dominating what was obviously going to be a function of the Army as a whole, according to W.E. Butterworth in his 1971 book "Flying Army").
There was no gunnery program when he arrived, so Payne had to write the gunnery familiarization program. He remembers that as 18 months of relative peace and time with my family "also, some of the best duty I ever pulled in the Army."
In 1967, when he left Fort Rucker Army Aviation was producing 600 pilots a month. That contrasts with 22 new pilots turned out the month of his graduation seven years earlier. The Army's helicopter program was at this time only 19 years old.
In '67 it was back to Vietnam for another tour. Payne was initially assigned to the 9th Infantry Division and three months later to the 120th Aviation Co., which operated out of Hotel 3 on the Tan Son Nhut Air Force Base in Saigon.
"We lived downtown in a villa, had maids to wash our clothes and shine our boots, great restaurants to eat in, and no shortage of Viet Cong." he said.
Again he ended up with the gunship Platoon, dubbed the Razorbacks by their original platoon leader, who had attended the University of Arkansas. Payne was with them from September 1967 throughout the remainder of his second tour.
By this time, the Army had a C 8 model Huey which was 20 knots faster than the B model, but they seemed to be everywhere else but with the Razorbacks, which still had the B's and the M-16 weapons system.
The Tet offensive, the biggest battle of the war, came in January 1968. Payne's unit was off-duty when they got a call saying the embassy was under attack. He was one of five people in a jeep headed for Tan Son Nhut when they took a bullet through the windshield. It came out the middle of the jeep, but miraculously, no one was hit. Payne said he had a bad feeling, nevertheless.
"Nobody could fire. We were working over the city. Nobody could shoot into the city," he said.
Aircraft were drawing some tracer fire off the runway and Payne flew down Highway 1 across the end of the runway.
"As I turned, the assault on Tan Son Nhut started right under me, They must have thought I was a 'slick' 'cause they never paid any attention to me," he said.
He dumped 48 rockets on an enemy regiment that was on line, advancing on Tan Son Nhut.
They broke the initial assault but the VC did not give up. His team went back to the airfield to re-arm, then took off again for the west end of the runway, but the enemy was waiting for them. They hit the machine gun, and the man stationed there caught part of the fire through the web between his forefinger and thumb. It smashed the gun, and he wrapped a handkerchief around the wound.
"Whole sections of Saigon were destroyed during that fight," Payne said. There was nowhere else to go; every major city was under attack. His craft took 39 hits in about 12 seconds on one pass, and nearly everyone aboard but himself was nicked.
They were still receiving fire as they approached the heliport. Even at a hover, the enemy seemed about to overrun them. They took cover under a revetment so they could rearm their aircraft. Payne said he had 26 men in his platoon, enough to man four helicopters.
"That was the only time in my life I knew I was going to die," he said. "Obviously, I was in error."
Payne said they took off down their own flight line and he was about to hit the firing button when he got the call that the Viet Cong were falling back. The 3/4 Cavalry of 25th Infantry Division set up a defensive perimeter around the heliport so that they had a secure place to rearm and refuel.
"The movies are correct. The cavalry does come to the rescue. They felt like we'd rescued them, we felt like they'd rescued us."
"In the first 12 hours of the Tet offensive, all 9 aircraft of the Razorback platoon were shot up beyond local repairs and were replaced by rebuilt Huey B's flown in from Corpus Christi, Texas. We slapped weapons systems on 'em. They were intended for 1st. Cavalry, but they ended up with us. They decided the capital (of South Vietnam) was more important," Payne said.
Just prior to dawn that morning, they got a call from Capital Military District asking them to check out the Cholon district of Saigon. By this time, there were fires all over Saigon and smoke was building up.
The Razorbacks caught a lot of ground fire on their way over. From the air they could see jeeps turned up on their sides and the bodies of children and civilians sprawled out. They were irked to see, in the midst of the havoc, a senior officer's Bachelor Officer Quarters where a poolside party was in progress, and the officers' Vietnamese girlfriends waving up to them.
"That was the first night of the Tet offensive. We ended up firing into Saigon a whole lot. We chased them into the countryside ... The fighting went on into April," Payne said.
In late April, they got word of a second offensive in the making. Somewhere along the line, Payne had been promoted to major, and he had orders to leave for home May 14. So far, he had been lucky.
Then, in the Giadinh area of Saigon, in the middle of the night, about the first of May, he was hit for the first time. He watched a little flash down below him, and felt his knee come up and hit him in the chin. The bullet had come through the chin bubble of the helicopter and some of the heavier metal pieces. Part of the jacket hit him on the little finger. He thought the finger had been shot off, but it was just a metal fragment stuck into it that came out quite easily.
The real wound was on the back of his thigh. "I still have the bullet in my leg. Nice little memento, but I can't show it to anybody," he said.
Payne felt the impact, but went back for another pass. When he landed, a litter was fetched, but he was walking around and didn't want to get on it because he felt if he did it would be giving up.
"I made it through almost two years of flying gunships before I got wounded. I think that's a record," Payne said.
He left as the May offensive was scaling down, and got out of the Army in 1971, but by that time the gunships he had helped pioneer were accepted by the Army and the rest of the world. (1)
Military Discharge recorded in Stephens County Courthouse Book 21, page 93. Not viewed. Chad was awarded three Distinguished Flying Crosses during his military service.
2000 Chad Payne's former gunship door gunner is a Hollywood screenwriter and movie producer now. He told Chad he keeps writing him into some of his characters. He evidently rounded out the Col. Kilgore character in "Apocalypse Now" using Chad as his model. Apparently that's the character that famously said "I love the smell of napalm in the morning". Chad claims he finds that scary, but I don't think there is much that would scare the same Chad.(2)
The book "Seven Firefights in Vietnam" records Chad Payne's Vietnam experiences in greater detail.
Chad is becoming quite a successful Western artist now. His prints are selling like hot cakes. He is really very good indeed. A serious western artist in his spare time.(3)
(1). Mitch Meador, Mitch (1993) Duncan veteran pioneered air mobility idea in Vietnam. The Sunday Constitution newspaper, January 10, 1993 - Duncan Oklahoma (2). Harvey, Kenneth Charles (1996) (3). Payne, Lewis Adair (1996) Conversation with Kenneth Charles Harvey
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."
Brooke Payne notes that his name is spelled in various ways: D.V., Devaul, Duvall, Deval, De Vall, Devall. In spelling it Devall, Payne follows the practice of living descendants who use the name. (Payne, p 251). He took at active part in the civil affairs of his State, being a member of the Legislature 1801, 1805, 1817, and 1828. He was State Senator 1807-1811; Presidential elector 1813, 1817, and 1825. 1816 he was Justice of the Peace in Mason co.Collins's HISTORY OF KENTUCKY (says)...'he joined Capt. Kenneth McChord's troop of cavalry and served in 1791 under General Charles Scott against the Indians on the Wabash...in 1813 he was appointed Major in Col. Richard M. Johnson's regiment of mounted rifleman. On 5 Oct 1813 at the Battle of the Thames he charged at the head of his battalion through the British lines; and in company with General Harrison's aides when in pursuit of General Proctor...also said to have distinguished himself at the Battle of River Raisen, Michigan where in January 1813 the Americans suffered an overwhelming defeat by the British and massacre by the Indians." (Payne, p 252).
Dora Fay Pierce Yeager, 87, of Oklahoma City died Thursday, March 7, 2002, in Oklahoma City.
Service was held at 9 a.m. Saturday at the Assumption Catholic Church in Duncan, with the Rev. Donald Wolf officiating. Burial was in the Duncan Cemetery under the direction of Don Grantham Funeral Home. Mrs. Yeager was born on Jan. 30, 1915 , in Duncan to Thomas H. and Bessie Gentry Payne.
She married Edward R. Pierce, who preceded her in death in 1951. She then married George Yeager in 1965. He preceded her in death in 1977.
She was a homemaker and also worked as a bookkeeper.
She was a member of Assumption Catholic Church. She is survived by one daughter, Lynn Moroney of Oklahoma City; two sisters, Anna Laura Strong of Duncan and Lois Payne Hanna of Oklahoma City. She was preceded in death by a brother, Thomas H. Payne III; a sister, Patty Gay Payne; and her parents. Grandchildren include Siobhan Moroney of Highland Park, Ill.; and Tracy Moroney of Studio City, Calif. Great-grandchildren are Michael Moroney and Anne Green of Highland Park, Ill.
She was preceded in death by a brother, Thomas H. Payne III; and a sister, Patty Gay Payne.
(Transcription courtesy of Lynell Cordell).
Avid genealogist, and gathered much of the information contained in these files.
His father's will dated 31 Jany 1697/8 referred to him as his second son, and left to him 700 acres. In 1702, Daniel McCarty and wife Elizabeth (Edward's mother) applied for administration of the estate of "Edward Paine, deceased, son of William and Elizabeth Paine".
In 1755, on an expedition against the Shawnee Indians, Ensign Edward Payne marched with an outfit commanded by Capt. Lewis Elzey to Winchester. Members of the party had enlisted to serve 30 days. No relief arriving at the expiration of that period, some of the officers and enlisted men chose to leave. Among the group that left was Ensign Payne. Therefore a subsequent claim for compensation for this service was rejected. He later served as a Church Warden, Justice of Fairfax County, and Sheriff. In 1782 he was recorded in the Virginia Census as head of a family consisting of 8 whites and 26 blacks.
Col. Edward Payne was a member of the Danville (Ky.) Convention on 23 May 1785. Kentucky was finally separated from Virginia in 1792 after seven such conventions. Edward was a member of the Kentucky Constitutional Convention and Senatorial elector for Fayette County.
In 1782 he located his home on 5000 a. West of Lexington and built a log cabin on the site of the late Joel Lyle's home. Two years later he returned to Va. and brought back with him his father, brothers and sisters. With the exception of William and Jilson, the family took up claims on the old Frankfort pike and reaching towards the Versailles pike. His second marriage was to Mrs. Preston of Va, with no issue. (Payne, p. 257).
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.
Henderson David showed that he married first Susan J. CRIGLER, on 17 Feb 1876 in Culpeper, Va. He and Susan were the parents of George, Lizzie, Edward, Ellis, Hunter and Mary. By his second wife, Bettie BUTLER, he had John, Ashby and Norman.
1900 Census
Virginia, Culpeper County, Catalpa Magisterial District (except Culpeper town)
Enumerated 19 Jun 1900
SD 8 ED 4 Sheet 10A
157-158
Payne, Elias Head W M May 1854 46 M24 Va Va Va Farm Laborer
Payne, Bettie Wf W F Jan 1870 30 M 24 7/7 Va Va
Payne, Ellis Son W M Fab 1880 20 S Va Va Farm Laborer
Payne, Hunter Son W M Apr 1886 13 S Va Va Farm Laborer
Payne, Mary Dtr W F Jun 1892 8 S Va Va
Payne, John Son W M May 1896 4 Va Va
Payne, Ashby Son W M Mar 1897 3 S Va Va
Payne, Bessie Dtr W F Fab 1888 12 Va Va
Payne, Edward Son W M Nov 1878 21 Va Va Farm Laborer
A deed in Middlesex County dated 7 Apl 1690 recites that Henry THACKER of Christ Church Par. had m. Elizabeth daughter of John Payne, Jr. They had seven children. (Payne, p 59).
Her father's will dated 1697/8 referred to her as under sixteen. She m. John Sturman of Cople Parish, Westmoreland County. The will of her stepfather, Daniel McCarty, dated 1724, bequethed her a Bible and expressed the wish that she make good use of it. The present non-original record of this will names her as Elizabeth Sherman, which name, according to contemporaneous records of Westmoreland County, clearly should be Sturman.
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].
Lynell Cordell notes that Ella Payne & brother Jean Payne...(she thinks)...are enumerated together in the 1930 Federal Census in Stephens County, Oklahoma, King Township, ED 69-5, Sheet 7B
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
Said to have been born in Haney, Oklahoma. Cova Jean Williams shows her middle name as Eugene versus simply Jean, as is indicated on the Texas Birth Index.
Frances Payne Sewell, 69, of Garland died Wednesday, July 17, 1996, at her residence.
She was born April 28, 1996 (sic), in Hemphill as a daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. James Leroy Payne Sr. and had lived in Garland since1960. She was a 1944 graduate of Hemphill High School and then obtained degrees from the University of North Texas and Stephen F. Austin State University. In 1980, Mrs. Sewell retired from Garland Independent School District after 17 years service teaching at Freeman, Bradfield, and Parkcrest Elementery Schools. She also taught music and voice in her home.
Mrs. Sewell had been an active member of the First Baptist Church in Garland since 1960, participating in Sunday School, choir, and Bible Study Fellowship. She was also a member of Critic's Choice Book Club, Women's Book Club, Daughters of the American Republic, Daughters of the Republic of Texas, Baylor Hospital Auxiliary, Garland Symphony, Garland Community Concert Association, Dallas Opera Association, and Dallas Symphony Association.
Survivors: sons and daughters-in-law, Robert Payne and Jacquelyn Sewell and Jimmy and Doreen Sewell of Garland; grandchildren, Travis Sewell, Rachel Sewell, and Chelsie Sewell; and a brother, James L. "Jamie" Payne Jr. of Hemphill.
She was preceded in dehat by her husband, Dr. Robert B. Sewell, on April 25, 1991.
Funeral services were held at 4 p.m. Friday at First Baptist Church in Garland with Dr. Charles Cockrell and Dr. Steve Davis officiating. Interment followed at Restland Memorial Cemetery. Arrangements were handled by Williams Funeral Directors in Garland.
Memorial contributions may be made to the music ministry of First Baptist Church in Garland.
(Transcribed by Melinda McLemore Strong, February 2011)
Name Fred Lee Payne
Event Date 29 Aug 1950
Event Place Mesa, Maricopa, Arizona
Gender Male
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Age 70
Birth Year (Estimated) 1880
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Father's Name Levi Payne
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Mother's Name Elizabeth Mcclanahan
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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.
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