Illinois:  History of Cass County, Illinois, ed. William Henry
Perrin. O. L. Baskin & Co. Historical Publishers, Chicago, 1882. 
Cass County.

WILLIAM B. PAYNE, the leading dry-good merchant of Virginia, was
born at Nicholasville, in Jessamine Co., Ky., August 24, 1824. 
His father, Flemming Payne, was a native of the same State, Todd
County, Green River Country; was a tailor by trade, and made it
the occupation of his life.  He married Miss Susan Hightower, a
daughter of Captain Richard Hightower, a native of Old Virginia,
a farmer and a hotel-keeper.  Flemming Payne's father was Charles
Payne, who raised a family of eleven, the youngest of which lived
to be thirty years of age, and the oldest ninety-three, and two
are still living at an advanced age.  They all settled in
Kentucky, but the two now living are residents of Missouri. 
Flemming was the seventh of the family, and raised two sons and
one daughter.  Charles F. (deceased 1860) was a farmer of Cass
Co., Mo.; Miranda H. is now widow of Charles F. Lowery, a
merchant of Lexington, later Circuit Clerk of Fayette County. 
She still resides there at fifty-five years of age.  William, our
subject, attended school at Nicholasville, and left home at
sixteen years of age.  He clerked in a store for a time in his
native town, and then went to Lexington and clerked about five
years.  At twenty-three years of age he entered the dry-goods
business at Oxford, Scott County, Ky.  In 1853 he went to Cass
County, Mo., and followed farming successfully for about eight
years.  He came to Virginia, Cass Co., in 1864, and re-entered
the mercantile business, and has since that time continued in
trade.  Mr. Page has spent about thirty years as a merchant, and
eighteen years in Virginia.  He was married February 24, 1848, to
Miss Hannah E. Allender, daughter of Edward Allender, of
Lexington, Ky.  They have nine children living:  Sue, now Mrs.
Finis E. Downing, present Circuit Clerk of Cass County; Charles
F., a merchant of Ashland, Cass Co., this State; Miranda H., wife
of A. M. Thompson, farmer, Cass County; Henrietta, B., or Mrs. 
D. M. Crum, farmer of this county; Wm. G., who married Miss Eva
L. Black, of Virginia; Richard H., James S., Eva L., and John S.
are still at home.  Mr. and Mrs. Payne are members of the
Methodist Church, and Mr. Payne is a member of the I.O.O.F., of
36 years' standing.

Payne Hightower Lowery Allender Downing Thompson Crum Black
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Jessamine-KY Todd-KY VA Fayette-KY Cass-MO Scott-KY