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© The Chickasha Daily Express Chickasha, Oklahoma Thursday, December 6, 1917 October 26, 1841 ~ December 5, 1917 GRADY COUNTY PIONEER PASSES AWAY AT HOME M. Payne, age 76 years, died at his home last night near Amber after an illness of several weeks. Mr. Payne was one of the oldest citizens in Grady county, coming to this county twenty-nine years ago. Since coming here from Kansas he has resided in and about Amber and Chickasha and in this course of time he had made many friends who will share the sorrows of his departure. The deceased leaves a wife and ten children to mourn his loss. The funeral services will be held tomorrow evening at _ o'clock at the Amber cemetery. October 26, 1841 ~ December 5, 1917 Mashack Payne, was born 26 October 1841, in Sullivan County, Indiana, the son of John and Nancy [Zink] Payne. The Civil War started when he was a young man and when he was nearly 21 years of age, Mashack enrolled on August 26, 1862, in Company I of the Ninety-seventh Indiana Infantry. His brother Jacob also enlisted and they were with Sherman in his history making March to the Sea. During Mashack Payne's military service he was wounded in his left leg, and later received a pension related to this wound. Mashack was discharged at the rank of Corporal, on June 9, 1865. After his return from the war, he married a girl from his neighborhood in Sullivan County, Indiana. Mashack Payne married October 14, 1865, in Sullivan County, Indiana, to Margaret Elizabeth Patton, daughter of John and Mary Ann [Ring] Patton. In 1867, Mashack, and wife and daughter moved by covered wagon from Indiana to Chase County, Kansas. Mashack's parents, John and Nancy PAYNE, and Mashack's siblings: Jacob, Emmeline and Rachel moved with them. The following year, in 1868, Margaret's parents and children also moved to Chase County. Margaret and Mashack and family lived in Chase County, mostly in the Cedar Point area until in 1889, when Mashack and Margaret and Mashack's father John Payne moved to Chickasha, Indian Territory, later known as Grady Co., Oklahoma, and then moved to near Amber, where he resided until his death. The deceased leaves a wife, Margaret, of the home, and ten children to mourn his loss, daughters: Nancy Ann [Mrs. Albert Talkington] of Chase Co., Kansas; Rosa May [Mrs. Frederick T. Shroyer] of Toledo, Ohio; Jessie (Mrs. Joseph Thomas Nunn) and Effie [Mrs. John H. Barger] and Ettie [Mrs. James L Ferrell] of this county; Charlotta [Mrs. Frank Duncan]; and Laura E. [Mrs. Charles Duncan]; and sons: Ulysses Sherman, Logan, and Charley, all of this county, and several grandchildren. Two of his children, Rachel Josephine and Maggie Allice, died as infants in Chase Co., Kansas. His parents preceded him in death, his mother died in Chase Co. Kansas and his father died in 1885 in this county and was buried in Holcomb Cemetery. The funeral services will be held tomorrow evening and burial will be at the Amber cemetery. |
© Saturday May 10, 2008 December 20, 1845 ~ September 4, 1925 Born December 20, 1845, in Sullivan County, Indiana Died September 4, 1925, in Amber, Grady Co., Oklahoma Buried in Amber Cemetery, in Amber, Grady Co., Oklahoma Margaret Elizabeth Patton was born December 20, 1845, in Sullivan Co., Indiana, daughter of John & Mary Ann [Ring] Patton. She grew up in Sullivan County around the Jacksonville Township area in the northern part of the county. On October 15, 1865, in Sullivan County, Indiana, she married Mashack Payne. They had grown up in the same neighborhood of farms. Mashack had returned not long before from serving in the Union Army during the Civil War. Mashack Payne was the son of John and Nancy [Zink] Payne. Margaret and Mashack's first child, Anna, was born in Sullivan County in 1866. In 1867, Mashack, Margaret and daughter Anna, moved by covered wagon to Chase County, Kansas. Mashack's parents and three other Payne children, moved to Chase County, Kansas. All the Payne's including Margaret and Mashack, settled in the Cedar Point area. In early 1868, Margaret's parents John and Mary Ann Patton, and family also moved to Chase County, Kansas, they settled in the Clements area. In those early days, Chase County could be a tough place to live. And as farming goes, there were droughts and then the floods from the Cottonwood River and storms. Not long after they arrived, Mashack went to work for the railroad to make some cash, which took him away from home. Margaret and their baby were left alone on the farm. Though she did have family on farms in the area, it must have been difficult. Their daughter Annie wrote that when the job took Mashack to the Kansas-Colorado line, he told them he had to quit and go home to his wife and baby. Mashack & Margaret Payne farmed in the Cedar Point area for thirty years. Two of their babies, Rachel and Maggie, are buried in Cedar Point Cemetery. In January 1875, Mashack and Margaret "sold" four acres and eight rod of land on the corner of their farm for the sum of One Dollar, to Cedar Point to be used as a cemetery. This is the present location of the Cedar Point Cemetery. I believe they moved from that location to another in Chase County. Then in August 1889, Mashack and Margaret sold their farm to Oscar Duehn. And Mashack & Margaret Payne & seven children moved by covered wagon to Indian Territory [Oklahoma] and settled in the Chickasaw & Amber area of what would become Grady Co., Oklahoma. At the time of their move from Kansas, two daughters, Anna & Rosa, had already married in Chase County and did not move with the rest of family. Anna who had married Albert Talkington, stayed in Chase County, Kansas, & Rosa had married and gone to live in Ohio. There are many stories about that move to Indian Territory and the things they encountered there. Margaret and Mashack farmed and lived in the Amber area for about twenty-eight years when Mashack died. After that, Margaret lived with her children for another six years. Part of that time she lived with her daughter Ettie and family and Margaret's granddaughter Ruth got to know her well. Margaret E. [Patton] Payne died on September 4, 1923, in Amber, Grady Co., Oklahoma, and was buried beside her husband Mashack, in Amber Cemetery, in Amber, Grady Co., Oklahoma. Mashack and Margaret Elizabeth [Patton] Payne had twelve children, ten born in Chase Co., Kansas, one in Indiana & youngest born in Oklahoma. Their children who grew to adulthood are: Nancy Anna "Annie" Payne who married Albert Omer Talkington, Rosa May Payne who married Frederick T. Shroyer, Ulysses Sherman "Sherman" Payne who married Annie Graham, Laura E. Payne married Charles Duncan, Charlotta "Lottie" Payne married a Mr. Forster then Frank Duncan, Jessie Payne who married Joseph Thomas "Joe" Nunn, Effie Payne who married John Henry Barger, Logan Payne married Roxie Gertrude Davis, Ettie Payne who married James Lonzo Ferrell and remarried after his death to Frank C. Cox, and Charley Payne who married Laura Emily Willhoit. All these ten children were living when their mother died. Two of the children of Margaret and Mashack Payne died as infants or small children: Rachel Josephine Payne and Maggie Allice Payne. They are buried in the Cedar Point Cemetery, in Chase County. We searched for it but never could find an obituary for Margaret [Patton] Payne. But we have family records and so many wonderful stories that Ruth, her granddaughter shared with us, as well as photographs of Margaret and Mashack and family. And I have a photo of the headstone for her and Mashack and we found a Record of her funeral dated September 4, 1925, showing that she died in Amber when she was nearly 80. And I have a wealth of information about her and her family from my research. From the first time I read about Margaret I wanted to know more about her & her family. I met her granddaughter Ruth in 2003 through letters & telephone conversations & I enjoy keeping in contact with her & she shared many stories about her grandparents & family in Chase County and in Indian Territory. Ruth knew her Grandmother Margaret Payne and loved her dearly and described her Grandma Margaret, "Grandma was tall and slender. My memories of Grandma are childhood memories. She worked hard but could always listen to childish wishes. She had a gramophone with cylindrical records. There was one record she played for me so many times she must have gotten tired of hearing it…" Then Ruth continued, "To me she had all the qualities of a real lady." Margaret's daughter, Annie Payne Talkington, wrote a Sketch in the Chase County, Kansas Sketches, Volume One, about Mashack and Margaret E. [Patton] Payne. |
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