Wife of James Payne. Mother of Elizabeth Payne, Daniel M. Payne, William G. Payne, Catherine ("Kittie Bird") Payne (Maxey), Isabelle Jane ("Ibbie") Payne (Bennett), Sarah Payne (Pagett), and Matilda Howard Payne (Bartley).
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Rebecca Payne was born, May 8, 1820; was immersed by that eminently pious servant of God, Abraham Sallee, in January 1840; and fell asleep in the arms of Jesus, August 1, 1861.
In these last, and most critical and trying moments, she was calm and resigned, and expressed the strongest confidence in Christ, believing and trusting that he would raise her in the last day. I was intimately acquainted with Sister Payne for seven years; and am certain that I am not acquainted with any sister, in the Green and Cumberland River country, more piously devoted to the service of God than she. If teaching and encouraging children to read the scriptures daily, is bringing them up in the instruction of the Lord, she did her duty in this; for she was advancing her children faster in the knowledge of the scriptures than most women of my acquaintance. She lived to see two of them become obedient to the faith.
She could devise more honorable plans to influence her neighbors to hear preaching -- to have it at their houses, and her house for their accommodation, and to encourage them -- than most women. In these she was scarcely equaled, and not at all surpassed. But she has now gone, and has left her beloved husband, Bro. James Payne, and several children, together with the large brotherhood of Oak Grove Church, to lament the loss of one so worthy. But they do not "sorrow as those who have no hope."
"Though dead, she speaks in reason's ear,
And in example lives;
Her faith, and hope, and mighty deeds,
Still fresh instructions give?"
That we may see her clothed with immortality, is the prayer of one that knew her worth.
Isaac T. Renau
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Rebecca Payne was born, May 8, 1820; was immersed by that eminently pious servant of God, Abraham Sallee, in January 1840; and fell asleep in the arms of Jesus, August 1, 1861.
In these last, and most critical and trying moments, she was calm and resigned, and expressed the strongest confidence in Christ, believing and trusting that he would raise her in the last day. I was intimately acquainted with Sister Payne for seven years; and am certain that I am not acquainted with any sister, in the Green and Cumberland River country, more piously devoted to the service of God than she. If teaching and encouraging children to read the scriptures daily, is bringing them up in the instruction of the Lord, she did her duty in this; for she was advancing her children faster in the knowledge of the scriptures than most women of my acquaintance. She lived to see two of them become obedient to the faith.
She could devise more honorable plans to influence her neighbors to hear preaching -- to have it at their houses, and her house for their accommodation, and to encourage them -- than most women. In these she was scarcely equaled, and not at all surpassed. But she has now gone, and has left her beloved husband, Bro. James Payne, and several children, together with the large brotherhood of Oak Grove Church, to lament the loss of one so worthy. But they do not "sorrow as those who have no hope."
"Though dead, she speaks in reason's ear,
And in example lives;
Her faith, and hope, and mighty deeds,
Still fresh instructions give?"
That we may see her clothed with immortality, is the prayer of one that knew her worth.
Isaac T. Renau
Wife of James Payne. Mother of Elizabeth Payne, Daniel M. Payne, William G. Payne, Catherine ("Kittie Bird") Payne (Maxey), Isabelle Jane ("Ibbie") Payne (Bennett), Sarah Payne (Pagett), and Matilda Howard Payne (Bartley).
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Rebecca Payne was born, May 8, 1820; was immersed by that eminently pious servant of God, Abraham Sallee, in January 1840; and fell asleep in the arms of Jesus, August 1, 1861.
In these last, and most critical and trying moments, she was calm and resigned, and expressed the strongest confidence in Christ, believing and trusting that he would raise her in the last day. I was intimately acquainted with Sister Payne for seven years; and am certain that I am not acquainted with any sister, in the Green and Cumberland River country, more piously devoted to the service of God than she. If teaching and encouraging children to read the scriptures daily, is bringing them up in the instruction of the Lord, she did her duty in this; for she was advancing her children faster in the knowledge of the scriptures than most women of my acquaintance. She lived to see two of them become obedient to the faith.
She could devise more honorable plans to influence her neighbors to hear preaching -- to have it at their houses, and her house for their accommodation, and to encourage them -- than most women. In these she was scarcely equaled, and not at all surpassed. But she has now gone, and has left her beloved husband, Bro. James Payne, and several children, together with the large brotherhood of Oak Grove Church, to lament the loss of one so worthy. But they do not "sorrow as those who have no hope."
"Though dead, she speaks in reason's ear,
And in example lives;
Her faith, and hope, and mighty deeds,
Still fresh instructions give?"
That we may see her clothed with immortality, is the prayer of one that knew her worth.
Isaac T. Renau
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Rebecca Payne was born, May 8, 1820; was immersed by that eminently pious servant of God, Abraham Sallee, in January 1840; and fell asleep in the arms of Jesus, August 1, 1861.
In these last, and most critical and trying moments, she was calm and resigned, and expressed the strongest confidence in Christ, believing and trusting that he would raise her in the last day. I was intimately acquainted with Sister Payne for seven years; and am certain that I am not acquainted with any sister, in the Green and Cumberland River country, more piously devoted to the service of God than she. If teaching and encouraging children to read the scriptures daily, is bringing them up in the instruction of the Lord, she did her duty in this; for she was advancing her children faster in the knowledge of the scriptures than most women of my acquaintance. She lived to see two of them become obedient to the faith.
She could devise more honorable plans to influence her neighbors to hear preaching -- to have it at their houses, and her house for their accommodation, and to encourage them -- than most women. In these she was scarcely equaled, and not at all surpassed. But she has now gone, and has left her beloved husband, Bro. James Payne, and several children, together with the large brotherhood of Oak Grove Church, to lament the loss of one so worthy. But they do not "sorrow as those who have no hope."
"Though dead, she speaks in reason's ear,
And in example lives;
Her faith, and hope, and mighty deeds,
Still fresh instructions give?"
That we may see her clothed with immortality, is the prayer of one that knew her worth.
Isaac T. Renau
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