John Payne is pleased to announce that his long-awaited THE BIG PAYNE BOOK will be available in October. It will be over 700 pages long, with 54 photos included. The cost of the book will be $36.00 plus $6.00 for shipping and handling. The first chapter is an essay on the history of our Payne family, which runs nearly a hundred pages. This concerns the history of the Payne family, focusing on the six sons of John and Frances Coleman Paine of Spotsylvania County, Virginia. Subsequent chapters will deal with the nine children of Robert and Rachel Lord Paine who had children, namely, Daniel and Nancy Payne, Catherine and Samuel Austin, Frances and William Fox, Katie and Moses Teague, Temperance and Elijah Austin, Rachel and James Payne, Elizabeth and Edward Teague, John and Mary Bradburn Paine, and Robert Payne and Mary Baker and Nancy McMahan. Catherine Payne was born 16 September 1771 in Spotsylvania County, VA, and lived there until she was about twelve. At that time she moved with her family to Culpeper County, Virginia, and then in 1789 to North Carolina. About 1796 she married Samuel Austin in Burke County, NC. He was born 29 August 1768 in Maryland, the son of Samuel Austin, Sr. and Mary Green.It seems likely that Catherine died in North Carolina between 1830 and 1834. In that year Samuel and most of his family left North Carolina for Greene County, Missouri. Samuel Austin died in 1854 in Greene County, and was buried the Austin Family Cemetery, Greene County; he was later moved to Hazelwood Cemetery, Greene County, Missouri. Samuel and Catherine had the following children: Anna Austin (1797-1882), who married Phillip Austin; Mary Austin (born ca 1799), who married Benjamin Berry Austin; Tempernace Austin (1801-1894); John Austin (1802-1882), married Rachel Freeman and Eliza Williams; Greene Benjamin Austin (1805-1885), who married Nancy Freeman and then Melissa Anderson; Jane Austin (born ca 1807), who married A.D. White; Catherine Austin (born 1809); Sarah T. Austin (born 1811); and Samuel Austin (born 1814), married Elizabeth Jane Halbert and Martha J. Baxter. Temperance Paine was born about 1782 in Spotsylvania County and moved to North Carolina with her family when she was about seven. On 8 August 1809 she married Elijah Austin in Burke County, NC. He was born 15 February 1774 in Orange County, North Carolina, the son of William Austin and Anne Jones.Temperance and Elijah both probably died in Burke County between 1840 and 1842. They were the parents of three children: John Austin (born 1810); Absalom Christfield Austin (1812-1872), who married Nancy Preston, Nancy Gass, and Cenath Caroline Austin Bass; and Mary Austin (born 1815). PLEASE RESERVE ME ____ COPIES OF THE BIG PAYNE BOOK AT $36.00 PER COPY. PLEASE INCLUDE $6.00 FOR SHIPPING AND HANDLING. MAIL YOUR CHECK OR MONEY ORDER TO: JOHN W. PAYNE 395 CEDAR RIDGE DRIVE WETUMPKA, AL 36063 NAME ________________________________________________________________ ADDRESS______________________________________________________________ CITY____________________________ STATE _________ ZIP__________________ PHONE ___________________________ EMAIL____________________________ __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com