- Mrs. Laura Mae Payne 71 of near Loda died Friday in St. Marys hospital in Decatur where she had been a patient for the last eight days. She was a member of the First Christian church in Gibson City.
She was born Jan. 1,1885 at Vanceburg,Ky,daughter of James and Jane Meadow Kegley. She was married to William Payne March 5,1908. They farmed around Sibley for 30 years and for the last eight years had been in the Loda vicinity. Her husband died Feb. 28,1956. She leaves two daughters,Mrs. Genevieve Gierman of Lovington,Mrs. Hester Donner of Decatur,son Harry of Chicago,brothers,Henry and Orville both of Maysville, Ky,Bruce of Portsmouth,Ohio,Otto of Paxton, sisters,Mrs.Ella Holland of Gibson,Mrs.Cora Corner of Valparalso,Ind. She had been living with her daughter Hester Donner
Funeral services were held Monday at the First Christian church of Gibson with burial in the Drummer cemetery
Story from Harry Payne My grandparents met in Portsmouth, Ohio and she was working at the Drew Selby Shoe factory. They married and but later were laid off from their jobs and they moved back to Kentucky to raise tobacco on a farm located near Maysville, Kentucky on the Ohio river. After three years of being tobacco farmers they packed their belongings and came by train to Illinois. They arrived here in the spring of 1912. During that time they had 3 children. When Laura Kegley was born on January 1, 1885, in Kentucky, her father, James, was 24 and her mother, Effie, was 21. She married William C. Payne on March 15, 1908, in Kentucky. She had three children by the time she was 27. She died on July 20, 1956, at the age of 71.
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1885 - 1956 (71 years)
