Robert Payne (Breckinridge County, Kentucky, farmer)
b. 1813-12-05 d. 1897-09-08
Breckinridge County, Kentucky, farmer. Franklin County, Virginia native. Son of Moses Payne and Judith Beard Payne. Married to Nancy Scott Payne on November 17, 1836. Father of Willis G. Payne, Samuel H. Payne, James N. Payne, Thomas H. Payne, Artemisia Payne, Virginia Payne, Priscilla Payne, Minor P. Payne, Lewis C. Payne, Moses G. Payne, John A. Payne, Letitia Payne, Simeon B. Payne, and Mathew P. Payne. Overseer, on the Moorman plantation, in Breckinridge County from 1834 to 1835. Principal manager of the tobacco warehouse of McClarty & Fitzgerald in Stephensport, Kentucky. Farmer in Breckinridge County from 1836 to 1887.
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- White
Bibliography
W. H. Perrin, J. H. Battle, and G. C. Kniffin, Kentucky: A History of the State (Louisville: F. A. Battey and Company, 1887), 1080. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Breckinridge County, District 1, p. 35. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Breckinridge County, Hardinsburg, p. 3. Find A Grave, "Robert Payne (1813-1897)," Memorial #86871829, http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=86871829&ref=acom (accessed June 25, 2017).
Citation
Payne, Robert. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32206935 (November 12, 2026).
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