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.

Some pictures of a trip I made to Tucson, Arizona. |


Staff Sergeant Joe Payne missing in action.
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
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| 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.
![]() 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. |
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?
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. "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." |
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Here is an example of their Web Page Report. |
Articles and Books Online that have bearing on East Tennessee Genealogy. |
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Another file on the Claiborne County ENGLAND family from Marilyn Turner Winczowski |
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. After 12 years of continuous service In January 1927 Stanley Rudman, Pres. of D.T.&I Railroad,
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My Paynes
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 PaynesIf your a Payne or Payne kin you might be interested in the Heraldry of Payne. |

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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.) |
the entire week in Lake Buena Vista, Fl $130 for an entire week. Or visit my SELL.COM or CRAIGS LIST. For information on purchasing please CLICK HERE
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- Scanned copies of the Senator John Toomey letters to Senator Howard Baker, Sr. and his second wife Irene regarding his lineage. This from Mr. Arthur Franke of Maine
- Information regarding Herbert Meigs Toomey, grandson of Senator John Toomey, Scott County, TN
| And on occasion we find nice people who commit infamous acts among our lineage. I will add links to those as I find them. |
Newspaper Articles regarding Robinson/Rose and Thomas/Yoakum shootings.
This book is not only a true biography of Wyatt Earp's phenomenal friend, but it is also a review of every major film portrayal of the fambling, gunslinging dentist since 1926. Each interpretation is examined in terms of both its accuracy and its portrayal of John Holliday the man.
Regarding the connections between the above UMWA District 19 disputes, and the Yablonski family killings
what,if anything did UMWA District 19 have to do with that. And also Hell in Harlan. This is a very large PDF file and the Bob Robinson killing is near the end chapter. Best to do a search for Robinson.
Tennessee Highway Patrol Officer Sgt. Jacob Baylor "Bob" Robinson. Pictures from his granddaughter Beth Robinson Bunch.
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Earlier picture of Grandfather Phillips while in the regular Army during the Spanish American War along with his Enlistment Record and Medical Discharge
Pictures made in two locations of the Dutch Shell Refinery in Venezuela that were also in Grandad's Trunk.
