When Leonora Payne was born on 18 July 1856, in Richmond Township, Howard, Missouri, United States, her father, Thomas Jefferson Payne, was 36 and her mother, Martha Benson, was 21. She married Edwin Walton Bedford on 3 April 1879, in Howard, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Howard, Missouri, United States in 1900. She died on 25 December 1943, in Fayette, Howard, Missouri, United States, at the age of 87, and was buried in Fayette, Howard, Missouri, United States.
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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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