Biographical Sketch of William J. Payne, Camden County, Missouri

>From "History of Laclede, Camden, Dallas, Webster, Wright, Texas, 
Pulaski, Phelps and Dent Counties, Missouri" The Goodspeed Publishing
Company, 1889.
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William J. Payne, postmaster and tobacco manufacturer at Zebra, Mo.,
was born in Bedford county, Va., in October, 1835, and is the son of
William and Nancy E. (Ashwell) Payne, both natives of Virginia, where
they passed their last days.  The father was a tiller of the soil and
an honest, industrious citizen.  His son, William J. Payne, was reared
and educated in Bedford county, Va., and was reared to farm life.  At 
the age of twenty-two he began to learn the tobacconist's trade, and
worked in a tobacco manufactory for some time.  August 18, 1861, he
enlisted in Company I, Fifty-eighth Virginia Volunteer Infantry, and
served nearly four years.  He was commissioned as a lieutenant of his
company, and came out in the same position.  He was at the battles of
McDowell, Cross Keys, Winchester, Richmond, Front Royal, battle of
Wilderness, Fredericksburg, Spottsylvania and several other hard 
engagements.  He was wounded on June 27, 1863 by a grape-shot, and was
again wounded in 1865 by a gunshot.  At the time of his first wound he
was permitted a leave of absence, and went to the rear.  He served most
of his time as adjutant and drill master.  At the close of the war he 
went back home, and remained there until 1868, when he left, came west,
and in 1878 he was engaged in hauling ties and railroading.  In 1879 he
married Miss Elizabeth Frazier, a native of Meigs county, Ohio, who
bore him one child, William H.  In 1881 Mr. Payne moved to where he now
resides, in Camden County, Mo., and is the owner of 167 acres of land,
thirty acres under cultivation.  He has made all the improvements, 
having first settled in the brush when he could not see a man at a
distance of fifty yards.  He is a member of the Agricultural Wheel, and
is an enterprising and much respected citizen.

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