Note: The Paynes settled on the farm in 1826 known as the T. H. Hensley 
farm and raised a family of eight. One son and seven daughters. 
Source: Owen Co. Democrat Newspaper Apr. 12, 1917.
 
Note: the Will of Wm. Payne was written on March 15, 1867 and 
witnessed by Wm A. Montgomery and a second man whose signature 
I cannot read. 
It left the personal and real property to his wife upon his 
death unless she should remarry, then she was to have one third and the 
balance to be distributed to his children. 
The executors were to be his wife and son John F. Payne.
A more interesting document is his codicil written  December 15, 1871.

One: I charge my daugher Mary Ann Steele sixty dollars for one colt 
she received of me before the above will was made.
Two: I charge my son John F. Payne five hundred dollars furnished on a 
piece of land the same not being charged any place else and sixty dollars 
for one colt he received of me that is not charged anywhere else.
Three: I charge my daughter Indiana C. McKinney eighty dollars for one 
horse she received of me, also fifty dollars furnished her husband Jacob 
Mc Kinney.
Four: I direct that no interest is to be charged or collected on any of the 
notes that I hold against any of them
Five: I hereby give and bequest to my daughter Del S. Payne the organ 
that I now have in addition to what I have heretofore given her.
Six: I hereby direct that my executors sell of my personal property at 
public or private sale without applying for appraisement to the court 
for any order for the same.
On June 21, 1879 he adds another codicil as follows: I William Payne 
hereby constitute and appoint John S. Snodgrass as one of  my executors 
in connection with my son John F. Payne, as my wife has died

Typed and Submitted by Mike Dean