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And the "Snow Birds" are returning to their Roost's in the north. Makes it difficult for a Personal Shopper
Since some of my family have decided to begin, or at least openly express, to my wife my reasons for my wanting to care for my mother during the years she became disabled I will be putting financial statements that I have saved through the years of her meager bank account after selling my father's house in Tazewell and moving to Knoxville. Between 1987, the year the family decided to sell my father's house, and 1998, my mother's bank account actually grew rather than decline. In 1998 the finances were turned over to another family member and by 1999, just before she died, there was practically nothing at all left to care for her. I have all the financial records, that were monitored closely by another family member, to prove this and since it has become important to me, I will include them on THIS FAMILY PAGE. Maybe this will show those that continue to criticize my present marriage that I am serious in this sort of innuendo NOT continuing.
Caucasian Ancestry of Barack Obama - Seventh Generation

Salmon Payne was born ca 1796 in New York, and died aft 1850 in Melrose,Adams County, Illinois. He married Elizabeth (LNU) bef 1839. She was born ca 1806 in New York, and died aft 1850 in ,Melrose,Adams County,Illinois.
U.S. Passport Office Justification for Quality Increase


Something that Jim Payne shared with me several years before he died. Senator James Sasser was a good friend of Jim's and had helped him during a time of need. Jim was captured but released after his B-17 was shot down near the end WWII. (World War II Prisoners of War Data File) Jim was a technical sergeant on the B-17.
Some pictures of a trip I made to Tucson, Arizona.

Horton Robinson and Al George Payne, my father, at Ft. Oglethorpe, Georgia during basic training about 1930. My father always said that this training earned him the job as head of the Civil Defense organization during WWII and a position as Spotter at a small line shack just a half mile from his house. He was stationed there with manuals of aircraft identification material and a direct line to Oak Ridge every evening should enemy planes appear on the horizon. The shack some may remember was on top of what we call Pressnell Hill, across the road from Floyd Pressnell and just above the Arch Buchanan house.

Staff Sergeant Joe Payne missing in action.

I found your Web Site this morning. I would like to know how I could get good copies of the picture and information of Albert Burice Norrod you have on the internet. It is to big for me to print off the computer. I tried to make it smaller but it was still to big. I am working on the NORROD genealogy and he is a cousin. Let me know the charge. My phone number is 931-XXX-XXXX. My E-Mail address is: vesn13@hotmail.com.
My husband is the cousin. Thank You,
Edith Norrod

Good Afternoon, Mr. Payne, April 25, 2008

Thank you for the information. Did you know that there is a movie about Albert Burice's Airplane Crash? I saw it in the Fall/Winter of 1957/58. I think it had just come out. I don't remember the name of it. Albert Bruice's name is listed in the characters as to who played his part. I have been searching for the title but so for no luck. I have went through the local Newspaper for that time (1957/1958) for what was showing at the RITZ Theater, Livingston, TN and didn't find it but I am going to re-look the newspapers.
(Anyone with information regarding this movie please email either me (joe@joepayne.org) or Edith Norrod (vesn13@hotmail.com).

Edith
Have you noticed that there are many changes taking place in New and Old Tazewell. Good job and lots of luck. The old wooden part of the Centre Brick or the Farmer's Central Tobacco Warehouse is gone.

Grandfather Phillips tells of the funeral of his nephew, Captain Albert Burice Norrod, Arlington National Cemetery
At about 12:30 pm the immediate family went to the Chappel and sit by the body till the services, which was about 2:00 pm. He was given a military burial and it was a very sad occasion. About a platoon of soldiers escorted the body from the grave to the Chappel. Airplanes circled overhead during the whole procedures. Lots of flowers and large crowd at funeral.

I and my wife have been invited to the NORROD family reunion in Corssville, Tennessee this summer. I am planning on attending if she feels well enough by then and taking the file on Capt. Burice Norrad along with the hope to place this on the Arlington National Cemetery Web Site.


The Fielden and Hazel McNeely House about 2000. GOING GOING - GONE - Click on picture for more. Luckily Harrogate has taken care of many of their older houses. I plan on putting several online. First will be the Judge William and Hazel Davis House.


The same house 2007 - A couple reasons my site is back up is correspondence from Millie Baumgardner Gladney.


George Livesay, seated second from left, came from Hancock County about 1870 to begin his poultry business in Claiborne County. He was by all account a staunch Republican but became disgruntled with the politics of Claiborne County. He moved to Knoxville about 1908 and began a poultry business on Market Street. Below is one of his last Announcements in the New Tazewell Times - a business he owned and was editor of. His interest in using the railroad line that ran between Lone Mountain, New Tazewell and Knoxville for industry was evident in his articles.
More on what George Livesay refered to as the Spout Spring Village Republicans. Only two pages of the New Tazewell Times that he began in 1901 are recorded in the microfilm records that I can find. I have attempted to scan and transcribe much of what he was trying to do to bring new business to the railroad town of New Tazewell, Tennessee. CLICK HERE.

Is the house above the next along back street Tazewell to be torn down? Click on Picture for What I heard.
Movie "Wild River" - 1960 - A young field administrator (Montgomery Clift) for the TVA comes to rural Tennessee to oversee the building of a dam on the Tennessee River. He encounters opposition from the local people, in particular a farmer who objects to his employment (with pay) of local black laborers. Much of the plot revolves around the eviction of an elderly woman from her home on an island in the River, and the young man's love affair with that woman's widowed granddaughter. Directed by Elia Kazan
That is Hollywood's version. An example would be taking some of the brightest from the local area and "using" them to persuade the people to give up their land. I was contacted by Mr. Baker's grandson from the pictures below asking me to assist with information regarding his grandfather's mysterious death. If he is still coming to my site please contact me. Joe Payne
Uncle Lafayette G. Payne, Jr. worked for the land acqusition office of TVA in 1933-1934 "Wild River". Another Uncle, John Archer, was President of Nantahala Power and Light, Franklin, N.C. Grandfather Joseph Phillips was first with Power and Light Company in Claiborne County. Well, I was the first TVA Energy Advisor, should I not be famous?


Brand New Old Photos from Ann Doege of the Lone Mountain area. See if you can help us locate where these pictures were taken.

Congress passed the Tennessee Valley Authority Act in 1933 as one innovative program of the New Deal designed to pull the American economy out of the Great Depression. TVA developed fertilizers, helped farmers improve crop yields, replanted forests, controlled flooding, and generated electricity for the inhabitants of the valley. In the 1940s and World War II, TVA shifted its focus to hydroelectric projects that created 28,000 jobs. By the 1950s, TVA could not keep up with the demand for electricity because of its dependence on government financing. In 1959 TVA was granted by Congress the right to be a self-financing program no longer dependent on and limited by government appropriations. TVA has long been a controversial entity, largely because of its government connection and its practices of acquiring farm lands in order to build dams that create electricity.

In 1947 President Harry S. Truman created the Federal Employees Loyalty Program which reviewed federal employees and fired them if any doubt was evident about the employee's loyalty. The House Committee on Unamerican Activities (HUAC), as well as Joseph McCarthy's efforts, increased the search for communists in America. Thus began "The Red Scare" around 1948 and extended through the mid-1950s and was caused by a variety of factors, some of which include the trial of Julius and Ethel Rosenburg for espionage, who by the way, had a brother-in-law, David Greenglass working at Oak Ridge, Tn. Also the Iron Curtain, the Soviet Union's acquisition of an atomic bomb, and communist revolution in China added to the scare. Widespread beliefs that communist spies and sympathizers were in America working towards her demise only added to the paranoia of the times. The Oak Ridge worker, Greenglass turned state's evidence against the Rosenbergs in return for immunity for his wife, who had served as his courier.

In 1954 the Atomic Energy Act and Eisenhower's "Atoms for Peace" (AUDIO)program dictated a revision of the AEC classification guide to make information available for industrial development of nuclear energy. Thus was the era of Korea and Kruschev, I Like Ike, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, "Blue Suede Shoes", Peter Pan, the Kinsey Report. June Clever and Joseph McCarthy, the Edsel and Sputnik, the Hula hoop and the H-bombs.

More information regarding George Livesay

"What countless and magnificent escapes even the best of us in our short career and what fatalities we clutch which we should have shuned with horror. And how easy it is now to look back on our lost battlefields that might have been victorys had we stopped to read the grim lesson of experience, the threatening danger that stared us in the face at every turn in life when prosperity had been blighted and pledges had been broken and promises had been forgotten. All because we fainted under the banner of King Credit, but now have come again with the bullion, the stuff that will buy the world, with goods that is unexcelled in quality, and with prices that will prove to you that the Almighty Dollar is King of the World. And thanks to my many friends, I will prove to you if you will visit me and examine my goods, that I am on top. I will pay you cash for your produce and will redeam every pledge I have made to living man, and will continue to condemn without fear, thievery, robbery, corruption and dishonesty in the future as I have in the past."
List of ALL TENNESSEE ROOTSWEB DATABASES
Claiborne County Hurst Family Discovery through DNA Testing is that Henry Hurst of Leckhampstead Parish, Buckinghamshire, England is not ancestor.
There are approx. 105 Surname Studies below. Please use the arrow to the right of the box to access the "Drop Down List"
If you would like to add your family to this list or make additions or corrections please email me Joe Payne

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If you're interested in Claiborne County and its History browse:
  • Claiborne County pages on Yahoo/Geocities
  • Claiborne County TNGENWEB Pages
  • Claiborne County Resource Page
  • Claiborne County Cemeteries Association
  • Claiborne County Pioneer Project Over 52,000 Individuals.

    • Below are the surnames of projects I have done for other people:
    Hill BairdBurkhart Dunn Freshour McMillan Sherrod
    Franklin Gentry Shelton Bowman Mask/Ard Young Baskin
    Rinker Hurt Redman Yoakum McNeeley Stanifer/Standifer Cawood

    If you have a Claiborne County related Homepage, maybe you would like to add it to this growing list of researchers. A wonderful way to share you research and help those just beginning to connect on to family who shared their roots in Claiborne County, TN.
  • Have you downloaded the Later Day Saints Personal Ancestral File 4.04 yet?
    Here is an example of their Web Page Report.
  • Descendants of Thomas Livesay born on 3 Feb 1730 in Blackburn, Lancashire County, England.
  • Also from the LDS is ONLINE! 1880 U.S. and Canadian Census FREE!
  • The US GENWEB TENNESSEE CENSUS PROJECT.
  • Claiborne County Census 1840 - 1880 Census at Leon's Web Spot.
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    Articles and Books Online that have bearing on East Tennessee Genealogy.

    Another New File has been added to My-Ged data for Claiborne County, Ann England and Vetty E Decker have added their LEATHERWOOD HOLLER FAMILY
    Another file on the Claiborne County ENGLAND family from Marilyn Turner Winczowski
    My-GED.com will be back soon. The team at GenCircles is resurrecting the site with the great help from David Wilks. Look for its return soon In the meantime, go to Click Here to publish your data.
    And until GenCirles decides to put some twenty files I had with My-GED.com back online I will remove the links.
    Some other related Payne and Claiborne and Scott County families that I have reports online for:

    Anderson England Slatton Wear Burdine Chitwood Dalton
    Day Johns McGinnis Sexton Trammell McBee Roark
    Goad Shultz/Shults Walker Parkey Noe/Noah Riley Pearson
    Lebow/Leabow Baumgardner Farmer Chadwell Shipley Buis McCollough
    Archer Kesterson
    Attention all Payne's

    Patrick Payne has organized the Payne Family DNA Project in conjuction with FamilyTreeDNA. The DNA CHART.

    For other Surnames Find and Connect Click on Banner!!

    Attention All Descendants
    of Lafayette G. Payne
    The BLUE RIBBON our Grandfather was
    wearing the night he died.
    He died doing what he loved best.
    Serving his community. During his time as County Judge according to Edgar Holt's book Claiborne pages 56-61 in a section titled, "Roads and Bridges" it is said that, "In September 1920 the court, with Judge L.G. Payne presiding, approved the issue of $42,000 to keep roads in repair." This was during the time that the Walkers Ford Bridge that joined Union and Claiborne Counties was built.

    click on ribbon

    After 12 years of continuous service
    little is said of Lafayette G. Payne in any Claiborne County History.
    In fact there were deliberate efforts to
    discredit and leave him out of
    much of the County history. Assistance to LMU by Henry Ford began in 1926 when he
    contributed implement repair shop equipment amounting to $1272.26.

    In January 1927 Stanley Rudman, Pres. of D.T.&I Railroad,
    owned by Ford, and his wife visited LMU and arranged
    to give them $4,326.53 worth of material consisting of tractors,
    an automobile, and Estry organ, farm equipment, fertilizer,
    a Radiola, and Victrola. In Febuary 1927 Ford bought
    the use of a 200 acre farm owned by Lon Overton,
    the consideration being $40,000.00 plus $451.98 expenses.
    This property was conveyed to the University in 1933.
    LMU in 1936 received a new school bus from Ford,
    who by then had disbursed about $50,000.00 in their behalf.

    My Paynes

    1. You can view my pedigree chart here
    2. Lafayette Glen Payne with Henry and Bob at Cumberland Gap, Daniel Boone Marker
    3. Payne Ford Motor Company began 1915-16 and lasted over 60 years. Grandfather Lafayette G. Payne and brother Robert W. Payne began the business from their father Anderson G. Payne's "Hack" or buggy business in Lone Mountain. According to this June 1948 Advertisement in the Claiborne County Progress only Robert Wesley Payne founded the Payne Motor Company.
    4. Shawn Payne Sanson file on her great-grandfather Robert Wesley Payne, son of Anderson G. Payne.
    5. The Payne Brothers Partnership was established in 1947. This was a partnership that combined the part of the business in Lone Mountain into one.
    6. The other and probably the best business man was Clarence (C.C.)Payne connection. This part of the business was seperate from the Payne Brothers and Payne Ford that sold farm machinery and new Fords. This business actually competed with the Farm Machinery business of Payne Brothers during the late 1940's and early 1950's. It was through the International Harvester and Dodge Chrysler business that was owned and operated by Clarence Payne, son of Byrd Maynard Payne, brother to Lafayette and Robert Wesley Payne, and Clarence's son, Willam "Bill" Payne until his death in 1953. Clarence was also a staunch Democrat and head of the Hard Line Democrats during 1944-1945. Bertha Campbell Payne turns 100 years old. Widow of Clarence Payne, son of Byrd Maynard Payne. October 17, 2005.
    7. During WWII there was a ration of beef and other meats that forced many to resort to freezing their meat. Two companies were competitive in introducing techniques of frozen foods and they were Payne Truck and Tractor, owned by Clarence Payne and son and Charlie England Foods. Here are some ads from 1944-1945.
    8. Betsy Rose Taylor file on her grandfather Byrd Maynard Payne, son of Anderson G. Payne.
    9. Here are some Claiborne Progress Ads and articles during the late 1940's.
    10. The Payne family business flurished while other members of the family found other interests. Paul Donald Payne, a son of Jacob Payne, brother of Anderson was an inventor and worked with Thomas A. Edison in New Jersey.
    11. Also how I happened upon The Last Ford Thunderbird ever to be made. Do you think that Ford Motor Company might be the first of the major car makers to close its doors?
    12. Reuben Payne and Elizabeth Sweatman my first PAYNE Ancestors to date. Reuben through my DNA is Participant 38273/945U on the PAYNE DNA Chart
      View some early scanned documents of the Reuben Payne Family.
    13. Earl Caldwell, Powell, TN pictures of Elias Payne Family,brother of Anderson G. Payne.
    14. A 1992 letter from a grandaughter, Dorthy Vansickle King, of James M. Payne, a brother to Elias and Anderson G. Payne gives insight to what happened to two of the daughters of James M. Payne and Sarah Roller Payne after their parents died around 1897.
    15. Pictures of Enoch and Sally England Payne House, grandson of Reuben Payne and grandfather of Anderson G. Payne.

    New Information from two sources on long distant cousins.
    From Janet in Oregon, a long lost cousin comes pictures of part of my Payne family that moved first to Barren County, Ky around 1800 then on to Missouri. Please visit the Enoch, son of Daniel Family.
    Next we have pictures from Wayne Birge of the Payne Family Cemetery located near Tompkinsville, Ky. This cemetery is supposedly the last resting place of Reuben Payne, the proginator of my Payne family in America.

    Other Paynes

    Here are a few other Payne families in the Tennessee or surrounding areas about the same time as mine. These are mostly uncomfirmed files from GEDCOM and other various sources and should not be considered entirely accurate. Please let me know if you can authenticate or connect to these families. Some I have lost links to that I hope to restore soon.
    If your a Payne or Payne kin you might be interested in the Heraldry of Payne.

    View Payne Family Queries
    Post your Payne Family Queries

    The Man from Plains
    2007 Movie
    Carter Tried To Stop Bush's Energy Disasters - 30 Years Ago

  • MetroPulse The New Atomic Age
  • Tennessee "A funnel to bring in nuclear weapons and power waste from around the country to disperse into the landfills and recycling".
  • April 23, 2008 Utah governor opposes imports of Italian waste By BROCK VERGAKIS
  • NIRS - Out of Control - On Purpose: DOE's Dispersal of Radioactive Waste into Landfills and Consumer Products
  • December 2007 - Nuclear fuel regulator allows Erwin plant to store more uranium
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    Jim Henry has updated his files and added another found below among famous East Tenneeseans. The Henry and Jones along with the Breeden and Hurst families settled the Jones Cove - Wilhite Valley Area located at the North Western end of the Smokies.
    Genealogy of Famous East Tennesseeans. Hope you enjoy the following research. (All are still very much under construction.)

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