Lewis E. Payne

Birth Date

1839-06-10

Death Date

1879-08-26

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Scott County, Kentucky, student and soldier. Kentucky native. Son of Remus Payne. Resident of Scott County in 1850. Resided in household that owned twenty-seven enslaved persons. Student at college in Scott County, in 1860. Private in the Second Kentucky Mounted Infantry (Confederate). Prisoner of war. Released in prisoner exchange in Spring 1865. Lieutenant in the 5th Kentucky Cavalry.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Scott County, District No. 1, Eastport, p. 416A. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Scott County, District No. 1, Eastport, p. 573. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Scott County, District No. 2, p. 20. Courier-Journal (Louisville, Ky.), June 1, 1900, p. 5. Find A Grave, "Lewis Payne (1839-1879)," Memorial #60902251, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/60902251/lewis-elzay (accessed January 9, 2018).

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