When William Cross Payne was born in February 1860, in Mobile, Mobile, Alabama, United States, his father, William Payne, was 46 and his mother, Juda Caroline Ford, was 34. He married Elnora "Nora" Evelyn Popejoy on 24 November 1887, in Sunset, Montague, Texas, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Barnes, Dale, Alabama, United States in 1910 and Election Precinct 9, Rio Grande, Colorado, United States in 1910. He died on 13 October 1914, in Johnson Mesa, Colfax, New Mexico, United States, at the age of 54, and was buried in Beaver Creek Cemetery, Beaver Creek Township, Crawford, Michigan, United States.
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Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Historical Boundaries: 1869: Colfax, New Mexico Territory, United States 1912: Colfax, New Mexico, United States
In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
English: from the Middle English and Old French personal name Pai(e)n, Pagen (from Latin Paganus), a fairly common personal name among Normans. It derived from a word that originally meant ‘villager, rustic’, later ‘heathen’, but it had doubtless lost these connotations in its use as a late medieval personal name. This name has also been established in Ireland since the 14th century.
History: Thomas Payne, who was a freeman of Plymouth Colony in 1639, was the founder of a large American family, which included Robert Treat Paine (1731–1814), one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. See also Paine .
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