NOTE: I have no connection, no further information and am not seeking additional information. 11262 MERCER CO – LEWIS T. PAYNE – Payne, Johnson, Madison, Conyers, Riley, Offutt, Thompson, Peak, Sebree, Turner, Hall, Smith, Viley, Gaines, Cogar, McCracken, Lewis 11262 Kentucky Genealogy and Biography, Volume V, Battle – Perrin – Kniffin, 4th ed. Mercer Co. LEWIS T. PAYNE was born November 2, 1813, in Scott County, and in 1881 moved to Mercer County, where he has since resided. His father, Asa Payne, was born March 19, 1788 also in Scott County. In 1809 his uncle, Col. Richard M. Johnson, secured to him an appointment as cadet to West Point, which he resigned in 1810 to accept from President Madison, a clerkship in the Government trading house at Fort Madison, Iowa, where he remained two years. In the war of 1812, he was aide to his father, Gen. John Payne, in the Northern campaign, and after the war engaged in farming in Scott County. He had given his children many slaves, and lost ten himself by the late war. He is a Democrat in politics, casting his first vote for President Madison, and now (August 1886) in his ninety-ninth year is sprightly for one of his age, and is remarkably well preserved in body and mind, reading without glasses. He is a member of the Baptist Church, and has always been temperate, and of cheerful disposition. For fifteen of his later years he served as magistrate and a member of the court of claims of Scott County. His father, Gen. John Payne, was born near Alexandria, Va., 1763; received a good education; was in the Virginia militia, and present at the surrender of Lord Cornwallis, soon after which he settled in Kentucky; was active in the Indian wars on the frontier; a general in the war of 1812, a State senator; a farmer and large slave-holder, and died in 1837. He was a son of William Payne, born in 1670, a Virginian farmer who died in 1775, at the age of one hundred and five years. William’s father was from Wales, and received a grant of land twelve miles square in Virginia. William’s children were Edward (who under the law of primogeniture inherited the estate, and married Lady Conyers), William, Jr., and Sandford. At the age of ninety-five years William, Sr., married Ann Jennings and their offspring were John (Gen.) and Milly (Riley). John married Elizabeth, daughter of Col. Robert Johnson (sister of Col. Richard M. Johnson, born in 1773, died in 1847), and from their union sprang Asa, Robert, Nancy (Offutt), Sally (Thompson), John, Newton, Jefferson, Franklin Emeline (Peak), Betsy (Sebree), and Cyrus, who was killed in the Mexican war. Asa married in 1811 Theodosia Turner (born Feruary 26, 1788, died June 11, 1841), and their offspring are Lewis T., John F., and Henry. Lewis T. Payne was first married in 1835, to Miss Sally, daughter of Nathan and Kittie (Hall) Payne, of Fayette County (born November 15, 1815, died July 12, 1841), and there were born John Henry, Lewis Elzay (deceased) and Sarah (deceased). October 12, 1842, he married Mrs. Martha Gaines, daughter of Capt. Willa and Lydia (Smith) Viley, of Scott County (born April 25, 1819, died November 2, 1883), and to them were born Asa, Jr. (November 15, 1852), and Lydia V. (Cogar), born April 16, 1860. Lydia V.’s child is Mattie M. Cogar. January 14, 1879, Asa, Jr., married Miss Rosa, a daughter of Andrew McCracken, of Richmond (born April 26, 1858), and their child is Mattie V. Lewis. Lewis T. Payne is a farmer, having 167 acres of well improved land. He is a member of the Christian Church and a Democrat. KYBIOGRAPHIES Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index?list=kybiographies KYRESEARCH: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.kentucky.tips/mb.ashx