Payne, Stephen bio

History of Fulton County, Illinois; together with Sketches of its Cities, Villages and Townships, Educational, Religious, Civil, Military, and Political History; Portraits of Prominent Persons and Biographies of Representative Citizens. Chas. C. Chapman & Co., Peoria, Illinois, 1879, page 765, Lee Township
Stephen Payne was born in 1816 in Washington Co., O., son of Abraham and Philomela Payne, natives of Connecticut, who died aged 100 years; in 1850 Stephen emigrated to Iowa; in 1858 he came to this county; served nearly 4 years, in the war, - first in Co. D, 70th Ill. Inf., then in Co. I, 16th Ill. Cav., then transferred to Co. E, V. R. C., and discharged at St. Paul, Minn., Sept 5, 1865. Mr. Payne first married Phoebe Rickey, who was born in 1812, in Belmont Co., O.; she died in 1843. In 1845 Mr. P. married Catharine Dunn in Madison Co., O., who was a native of Hampshire Co., Va., and who died in 1865. Mr. Payne has had 11 children, 6 of whom are living. He has been a merchant, but is now a farmer on sec. 5, Lee tp. Is Justice of the Peace, and in politics a Democrat. P. O., Prairie City.