When I have a little time I keep notes on who has our allied surnames. This time, I noticed the surname "Hildreth." Since it's referring to Bourbon Co., KY, I'd bet that there's a connection between David Bowles and this Payne family and the Hildreths. Marie, if you're looking for more information, you might go to the archives at: http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl Find this, then fill in the name Bowles-L in the slot. When the page comes up put in the surname that you want. You have a lot of surnames in your posting, which means that any number of them might give you more information about your Bayles and Bowles. Yours, Linne From: URMOSER@aol.com----- later changed to: urmoser@cableone.net Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 02:44:49 EDT Subject: David & Winnie To: BOWLES-L@rootsweb.com Just had what seems a major breakthrough with the ch of David and Winnie. It seems they were all born in Va., so somewhere there must be a marriage for them. From The History of Kentucky and Kentuckians, Vol. III, Lewis Publishing Co., Chicago, Ill., 1912, pp 1553-1554 WILLIAM B. PAYNE Among the representative residents and successful farmers of Harrison county, Kentucky, may be mentioned William B. Payne, who both as a man and farmer deserves more than a passing notice. Mr. Payne was born at Cane Ridge, Bourbon county, Kentucky, October 22, 1844, a son of William D. and Rachel Franklin [Marrow] Payne. The father was born on the same farm as our subject, at Cane Ridge, Bourbon county, Kentucky, on March 27, 1817, and he died on his farm near Millersburg, Kentucky, in 1897. The mother was born in Bourbon county, Kentucky, between Cane Ridge and Millersburg, in 1824 and died in August 1845. Two children were born of this union of whom one is living, William B. Payne, our subject. His father was married a second time, to Miss Cynthia Frakes, a native of Bourbon county, Kentucky, who died in 1893, the mother of nine children, of whom three are living: Frances Ann, wife of James W. Thorn, of Bourbon county, Kentucky; Emma, wife of Frank E. Herbert, of Millersburg, Kentucky; and Lutie, wife of Horace W. Purdy, of Bourbon county, Kentucky. John Payne, our subject's grandfather, was a native of Virginia and died in 1826, when about forty years of age. He came to Bourbon county about 1800, located at Cane Ridge when that county was all covered with cane brake and married Miss Elizabeth Bowles of Virginia. He cleared his farm and at his death was the owner of some two hundred and thirty acres of land. Our subject's maternal grandfather was William Marrow, a Virginian who came to Kentucky early, locating in Bourbon county, near Cane Ridge, where he was a farmer and also a preacher for years in the Christian church. He married for a second wife Maria Hildreth, who was the grandmother of our subject. He was a well read man. The father of William B. Payne was reared on the farm where he was born in Bourbon county, and was nine years old at the time of his father's death and was reared after that until he was twenty years of age by Peter Bramblet. He then started for himself on a part of hihs father's farm, where he kept bachelor's hall for four years, and then married. In 1855 he sold and removed three and one-half miles northwest of Millersburg, where he purchased another farm and upon which he lived the rest of his life. At his death he owned two hundred and forty acres of land, which he had divided up with his children before his death. In politics he was an old-time Whig and in religion he and his wife were both members of the Christian church. He was a man who thought for himself and was very positive in all his decisions and ideas. As long as he lived he would not allow a Jersey cow on his farm nor allow a pound of tobaccco to be grown on the place. William B. Payne, ouor subject, was reared on his native farm until he was eleven years old, at which time his parents moved to the other farm already mentioned. He attended the common schools and also the Kentucky Wesleyan College, then located at Millersburg, Kentucky, for four years, remaining at home until he married On October 31, 1871, he married Miss America E. Current, a native of Bourbon county, Kentucky, born October 31, 1845, a daughter of Thomas and Precilla [Fisher] Current, both also natives of Bourbon county. Twelve children were born to them, and Mrs. Current died in 1877. Mr. Current again married, his second wife having been Mrs. Lindsay, a Miss Allen in maidenhood, and she died in 1902. without children. Mr. Current was born December 1, 1811 and died in January 1900. Mr. and Mrs. William B. Payne are the parents of five children: Carl D., of Cynthiana, Kentucky; William T., at home; Annie T., wife of John T. Judy, of Millersburg; Elizabeth and Herbert both at home. In December 1871, shortly after Mr. Payne's marriage, he removed to Nicholas county, Kentucky, near Hooktown, where he purchased a farm and operated it until March 1886, when he removed to his present farm where he has two hundred and fifty acres known as "The Larches." Mr. Payne is the owner of thoroughbred Southdown sheep and Shorthorn cattle and is a tobacco grower and general farmer. He has always voted the Republican ticket in national elections and is a member of the Christian church at Millersburg and his wife is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church in the same town. Mr. Payne is above the average man in intellect, well read, pleasant spoken and a first-class citizen of Harrison county, Kentucky. Jane