Children of I.B. and Sarah Foster Kidd Payne: James Lewis Payne

The fifth of these seven children was called Jim. He and his wife, the former Ida Snow, resided on the hill property adjacent to and north and west of the land in the Hudson area owned by his brother, Buddy Payne. Jim Payne was a member of the Nazarene Church and was also a charter member and later secretary of the Hudson Holiness Interdenominational Camp Meeting. Jim died in 1955 at the age of 80, and Ida died the following year at the age of 72. Jim Payne and his wife had no children, but often spent time with his brother Buddy and their friends and relatives who would gather down the hill from his place at the community store. The Buddy and Martha Payne girls would also visit Jim's house and help Jim's wife, who was an invalid, with household chores and cleaning. Buddy would go periodically into town in his car and bring back food and supplies for Jim and Ida, as well as his own family.

Jim Payne was an avid reader and, like his brother Buddy, loved poetry, particularly nineteen- century poems about nature and pastoral beauty . As a very religious man, Jim was a talented hymn writer who composed songs that were sung in local and area churches. He traveled occasionally to churches in Louisiana and Texas to sing and lead singing there. A few of his poems, were published from time to time in the Dodson Times, such as "Beulah Heights" that appeared in the Friday, May 4, 1904 newspaper. The hymn ends with the following lines:

"Beyond the fair haven of blissful peace, Beyond the billows of the surging tide;
Beyond the golden strand where pain will cease, There my soul is longing to abide." "