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For those interested the Cumberland Gap National Park has decided to reopen the Chadwell Gap Trail. Also another bike trail that may be of interest would be the Virginia Creeper Trail. Chadwell Gap is one of my favorite and a gentle slope on the Virginia Creeper was easy to me as a beginner.
As a Certified Professional Public Buyer I am held to a higher standard than most purchasing professionals. Should your company or county consider maintaining a UPPCC fully certified public procurement staff, such as Anderson County, Tennessee is? 

Payne Johnson Looney
Tony Johnson to you - 3 days ago 
From: Tony Johnson 
To: JPayne5744@aol.com
Date: Sun, Jul 5, 2009 12:33 pm
In reading your Genealogy report I noted the following

The Oldest of the JOHNSON girls was ELIZABETH, who married ABSALOM DAVID's young brother and with JOHN inherited the old MICHAEL LOONEY home in Stanley Valley, and there reared their own large family. JOHN, born there, and lived out his eighty years there, and left the place to ELIZABETH for her lifetime, then to his son ORVILLE. (The home, built in 1882-4, was torn down in 1918, after housing three generations of LOONEYs. As RACHAEL and her half sister POLLY became young ladies (very attractive young ladies), they married brothers. CARROLL LOONEY courted RACHAEL; GAINES courted POLLY. They lived on adjoining farms on Big Creek; they both had large families, and their children attended the same country school, and swam in the same swimming hole on Big Creek. Their brother JOHN BLAIR LOONEY and family also lived on Big Creek, and their large family used the swimming hole and the country school. Thus it appeared that the LOONEY children dominated the whole district, and was related to everybody in it.

My Hudson Johnson d 1823 Dickson Co and wife Agness born 1740-1750 died 1843 Dickson Co. lived on Carters Valley and Agnes attended the Rev. Thomas Murrells church on Big Creek in Washington Co NC ( now Hawkins Co Tn). I am curious to know was there any male Johnsons off this line.

Reason I also descend from a FM Renfro's of Dickson Co Tn whose brother is doing business with a Nathaniel Johnson of Bartons Creek. Bartons Creek is where Hudson Johnson died at and wife Agness also died he estate was handled my THomas Murrell son of Rev. Thomas Murrell.

Hudson Johnson and families left Hawkins Co abt 1800 and moved to lands in Williamson Co Tn and in 1803 bought lands on Bartons Creek in Robertson CO Tn, by the time they get to these lands the are in the new County of Dickson Co. Tn.

I do have a file on Big Creek Johnson and Allied families to share

Tony L. Johnsno

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I learned yesterday, July 6th, from my niece Deborah that after an extended fight with cancer my brother Phil (Robert Thomas) Payne passed away. The pictures above are graduation pictures of Phil and his wife Barbara from Claiborne County High School sent to me by Glynn Ailey Millet, California.

Bonny Kate, Pioneer Lady, by Mark Strength.
It was my pleasure and honor to attend this years Sevier Family Reunion in Jonesborough, Tennessee. It was also a pleasure and an honor to meet and become friends with an author of two books regarding the life of General John Sevier's, "Nolichucky Jack", second wife, Kate or Catherine Sherrill. Although Mark is not a direct descendant of or connected to the Sevier family by heritage, he realizes the importance of what John Sevier did for the establishment of our great nation. Mark, previously employed as a securities analyst has left that career for what he feels is a more rewarding life as a publisher and an author. From his website Bonny Kate Publishing Company, Mark advertises his latest books. The Knoxville News Sentinel critiqued his first book in February 2008. Both books are taken from the factual events and primary families that were part of our early pioneer heritage, especially those rooted deeply in East Tennessee.
Bonny Kate's Honeymoon: Victory at King's Mountain., by Mark Strength.
I have to mention that while looking for a model for the cover of his second book Mark happened upon a direct descendant of Valentine Sevier and Joanna Goad, my line, she attended this years reunion and I only wish you could have seen that lovely face behind the hat to your left.


I will put this picture along with both my brothers, Phil and Eddie's membership record signed by Reverand Gunnar Tileman. Rev. Tileman while in Tazewell as minister of Tazewell Methodist Church helped organize a Boy Scout Troop that continues to this day. My brother gave a tent that he had used on safari while spending 12 years as Regional Security Officer for the U.S. State Department in both East and South Africa. This was during a time when the BELT was considered the best method of punishment for young adults.
Hi Joe: This photo was taken at Methodist Youth Fellowship summer camp ( believe it was 1947 or 1948 ) in Gatlinburg, TN. Attendees were from various Methodist churches in the area, including Tazewell. Regards, Glynn Ailey Millett

A close up of those from Tazewell Methodist Church: 1 Ed Buis 2 Eddie Payne & Brother Phil Behind 3 Henderson Lane 4 Blanch Smith 5 Rev Gunnar Tileman ( pastor of the Tazewell Church ) & daughter Beth in front 6 Wava Tileman ( wife of Rev Tileman ) 7 Glynn Ailey 8 Rolien Brown 9 Betty Smith ( sister of Blanch ) 10 Buddy Duncan 11 Anna Brown ( Rolien's mother & counselor ) 12 Margaret Chumley ( counselor ) 13 Cecil Ingle


Here is another oldie ----- the graduation of Kleber Chumley (third from left) and friends from Claiborne County High School in 1918.
Regards, Glynn
My cousin Amy Potts has given we Payne's a real treat. Somewhere around 1998 I asked my Uncle Fate Payne, twin brother of my father Al, to record as much about he and my father's growing up in Lone Mountain and he sent about three cassette tapes. Uncle Fate got around to doing them in July 2001, sadly after our brother Eddie had passed away. Amy has the expertise to put these tapes in mp3 format and the first of which (about 26 minutes) is below.
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Track 6
Still looking for information on the Tazewell M.E. Church South that was located on the back street of Tazewell, referred to as Church Street. This M.E. Church has long puzzled me as no one seems to know of it's existence and I seem to be the only person who has a picture of this M.E. Church South. Were there plans for the A.M.E. Church to move to Tazewell to support the large African American population here from the days of slavery that chose to remain here after the Civil War ended. Quote from John Wesley (1701-1791) - "Do all the good you can, By all the means you can, In all the ways you can, In all the places you can, At all the times you can, To all the people you can, As long as ever you can."

  • July 14, 2008 - Chattanooga Times Free Press - The interstate drama over pollution in North Carolina from TVA's coal-fired power plants in Tennessee, Alabama and Kentucky takes center stage today in a federal courtroom in Asheville, N.C.
  • July 23, 2008 - EPA official: TVA skirted the law by Anne PAINE - TVA each year has been "unlawfully" releasing about 300,000 tons of sulfur dioxide and about 130,000 tons of ozone-forming nitrogen oxide, he said. That's on top of legal emissions
  • As an Energy Advisor, yes spelled A-D-V-I-S-O-R, for TVA I learned a lot about the agency as it was in the late 1970's. Concern for conservation measures took a backseat to issues of the need for power production. I was taught concern for the environment at an early age and meeting those that would lead TVA into the future shocked me. Corporate greed is prevalent in that
    agency and many important issues are overlooked because of it. Can you believe that as late as 2008 that TVA is making it's employees suffer by cutting their own energy usage down by setting their building thermostat's to a temperature that would actually save electricity. Yes, with the salaries that they make they should be made to sweat it out with ceiling and window fans in the summer and sit by wood or corn burning stoves in the winter.
  • Energy Crisis in a Nutshell. Conservation, if practiced, would have saved the world all this worry about the ozone had been hammered into everyone's brain as it was mine during the 1970's. A silly title, especially during the 1970's. Who needed an Energy Advisor just after the big fiasco when we all sat in gas lines and cringed at $1.00 a gallon gas. Well evidently not Claiborne County, heck Claiborne County didn't need anyone telling them they needed to cut their energy costs, they didn't use much energy at all. Well, after that little job as Energy Advisor, I took to cutting firewood and hauling it through a program with East Tennessee Human Resources called their Energy Assistance Program. I did it for about three years and hauled so much firewood that the Soil Conservation Service decided to give me an award as Conservation Farmer of the Year in 1982. Now does that say anything about HOW I think the Energy Crisis and all this smoke about there being a pollution problem SHOULD have been handled but isn't. If my electric bill goes above $100.00 I worry. I must say I use far too much gasoline, driving back and forth to work but that is because I would rather live in an area that isn't constantly under a pollution alert. I think I hear the Passenger Train whistle blowing, don't want to be late for work, better run.


    • The Fielden and Hazel McNeely House about 2000. GOING GOING - GONE - Click on picture for more.

    The McNeeley-Weir House Moved. Click on picture for more.

    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 referred 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.
    Are we as concerned as we should be about our drinking water? I have taken an active stand against pollution from many years and have found that much of what I feel matters very little to most people. Should we endanger our water supply in the NAME OF PROGRESS

    How a true timber sale should be conducted. Some States require such practices, should Tennessee??

    "And we feel sure the music of this great State is assured."
    I don't think he was talking about "Rocky Top", or was he?

    President John F. Kennedy "90th Anniversity of Vanderbilt University" May 1963

    The old DELCO HOUSE that was used by my Grandfather Lafayette G. Payne during the 1920's is still standing

    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?
    Environmental Protection Agency models show more than 1,200 Americans die prematurely every year due to TVA's power plant pollution and thousands more suffer from respiratory ailments, including asthma. More on this can be found on the National Resource Defense Council website.


    Brand New Old Photos from Ann Doege of the Lone Mountain area. See if you can help us locate where these pictures were taken. I think they are a large part of the Shenandoah Springs.

    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.

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    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."

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    Claiborne County Payne, Lewis and Hurst Family Discoveries through DNA Testing is that John "Millcreek" Hurst is not a direct descendant Henry Hurst of Leckhampstead Parish, Buckinghamshire, England, Fielding Lewis of Big Barron, Claiborne County is not a descendant of Col. Fielding Lewis of Warner Hall, and that Reuben Payne is not a direct descendant of John Payne of White Hall, Va.
    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

    Click on the Arrow to the Right and Scroll Down - Many names have been Americanized such as Geck, Buehler, Sharpe, Jaeger, etc.
    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.
    • As with most of my family the Livesay were pro Union during the Civil War. The following comes from the Livesay Historical Society's web site:
    From LHS Webpage: Carter was an impulsive, high tempered man and because of this he had trouble living peacefully with his family and neighbors. In his Civil War records, the late Ralph Mason found the following story: "Carter Livesay of Kyles Ford, Hancock County, TN, was known as an uncompromising Union man at the beginning of the war between the states. In 1861, some southern soldiers came through the county arresting Union men and taking their guns.
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    When they approached Carter's house he fired on them, shooting the horse from under one of the soldiers. Thereafter, he fled to the nearby woods to hide. The soldiers came on to the house and arrested his father, Joseph, and took him off to prison. Carter's father died shortly after his release from prison. Carter and others remained in hiding afraid for their lives. When Capt. Rose came into the county, recruiting men for the southern forces, Carter and others arranged a meeting with him and as a result were given safe conduct out of the county into Kentucky. There evidently was not a clear meeting of minds as Capt Rose, in his disposition after the war, believed that he had gained new recruits, but Carter said he thought otherwise. Later, when they were in Kentucky, rifles and uniforms were issued to them but Carter refused to wear the uniform and hid the gun under a ledge of rock. He never took the oath of allegiance and later when the soldiers were engaged in a skirmish at Boston, KY., he got away and joined the Federal troops at French Lick, KY., and stayed with them until his discharge. The records further show that Newton (his brother) did not go with him, but his brother Joe did. Carter served in Company F of 2nd Tennessee Regiment. He enlisted Feb. 15, 1862 and was discharged Feb. 24, 1863 (disability). The papers show that he married at Blackwater, TN, Nov 10, 1885 to Ellen Mullins that he was previously married to Deborah Byrd, from whom he was divorced Sept 24, 1865.
  • Also from the LDS is ONLINE! 1880 U.S. and Canadian Census FREE!
  • 1850 Claiborne County Slave Schedule - and - 1860 Claiborne County Slave Schedule.
  • 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
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    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 Schultz Shipley Buis McCollough
    Archer Kesterson Essary Lickliter Hooper
    Attention all Payne's

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

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    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.

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    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.

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    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. Betsy's husband is Jay Taylor, a former Under Secretary of State and author of several books. His most recent is
    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.

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    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.

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  • 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.)

    a documentary film by Julie Williams Dixon and Warren Gentry
    Shrouded in mystery for hundreds of years, the Melungeons of Southwest Virginia, and East Tennessee, have oral traditions claiming Portuguese ancestry, though academicians have traditionally written them off as a 'tri-racial isolate.' Living deep in the Appalachians, some claim these people were here as early as the late 1500s, and might be descendants of Spanish, Portuguese and Turkish soldiers and sailors who intermixed with Native Americans.
    In May of 2009, Melungeon Voices will be shown on the opening night of the National Genealogical Society's annual conference being held in Raleigh, NC at the new downtown Convention Center. This year's conference, "The Building of a Nations. From Roanoke to he West" is hosted by The North Carolina Genealogical Society.
    And on occasion we find nice people who commit infamous acts among our lineage. I will add links to those as I find them.
    • April 8, 1925. Clay Jennings, Lone Mountain Man Slain by Carson Rose.
    • Among unsolved mysteries of Claiborne County are Who killed Gus Buckner and deposited his body within feet of my family property on Raven Ridge? Also the infamous J.W. Rose, Jr. who married the daughter of prominent businessman Clarence C. Payne in 1942.
    • Some correspondence from Shane Rose, son of the late Jack Rose regarding his interest in learning more about the Rose/Robinson Feud that took place sometime in the late 1930's in Tazewell. You can either email me Joe Payne or Shan Rose with any information you might have on these events. Newspaper Newspaper Articles regarding Robinson/Rose and Thomas/Yoakum shootings.
    • Claiborne County Businessman Robert Greene of Howards Quarter murdered May 1946.
    • Lineage of Outlaw Jesse James
    • FRANK JAMES VISITS BENJAMIN SCHULTZ AT TAZEWELL IN 1875
    • Timeline of the James-Younger Outlaw Gang
    • Then one might think that a Loyalist Great Uncle hanged after the Battle of Kings Mountain might be considered Infamous Capt. James Chitwood, hanged after a "drum head trial" the first night the prisoners were being marched from the battle site.
    • Local author, Dr. Sylvia Lynch has presented an honest, well-documented study of one of the West's most intriguing characters. she has pulled together the best of the available resources, and the result is a factual composite which clearly represents the real John Henry Holliday.
      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.
      This book can be found on Amazon.com if interested. I have read it and pick it up again often. I'll bet you didn't know that there is a genealogy link back to Tazewell, Tennessee from Doc's good friend Wyatt Earp but there is.

    • Outlaws & Gunslingers - Doc Holliday - Cattle Annie and Little Britches - Bill Doolin and His Wild Bunch - Bass Outlaw - Jesse James - Wild Bill Hickok - Dalton Gang - Curly Bill Brosius - Buckskin Frank Leslie
    • And there was another Great Uncle, James Payne the brother of my Ggggrandfather John Payne, who had a branch near Gate City, Virginia named for his exploits. Read about James Payne's part in the naming of The Devils Race Path Branch
    • All my life I heard the stories of Clarence "Pee Jem" Bunch whose gang ran the hill's and hollar's of East Tennessee during the early 1930's. Read some of the stories in the local papers and some that I heard in my recollections of Clarence "Pee Jem" Bunch.
    • In what was called Fork Ridge Coal Mine War (1941), former sargent in the Tennessee Highway Patrol, Jacob Baylor "Bob" Robinson, was killed by a group of striking coal miners near the Kentucky/Tennessee border. Robert "Sterling" Robinson, father of Jacob Baylor was said to have "Cut Wire For Teddy Roosevelt At San Juan Hill Charge ". Robert Sterling Robinson was an Uncle to Horton Robinson who married Lucile Payne, my Aunt. Robinson Family Information and Horton Robinson Pictures

      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.

    • On the Streets of New Tazewell many a shootout took place. My mother witnessed one such shootout and that remained with her the rest of her life.
    • Claiborne County Sheriff Issac Newton Mink and another Claiborne County sheriff, Sheriff Andy Hughes grandson Kenneth Hughes book, "The Sheriff's Son".
    • A list of all 335 Prisoners executed before lethal injection in the State of Tennessee since 1782. Taken from the web site Before the Needles
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