CALVIN HOOVER PAYNE

 

Calvin Hoover Payne died on February 23, 2013 at the age of 85.  Although the Payne/Foster Reunion obviously includes the descendants of Dr. Isaac and Sarah Foster Kidd Payne, efforts by Peggy Payne years ago led to the identification of many descendants of two of Dr. Payne's brothers, Jeremiah and Joseph B. Payne.  Both brothers, like Isaac, left Georgia after the Civil War, came to Louisiana, and started families here.  Some of the descendants of these two brothers attended our reunions in later years.  One of these individuals was Cavin Payne.    

 

Calvin served in the U.S. Navy during World War II and the Korean War, was multitalented, very personable, a great neighbor, and loved animals.  He had been a mail carrier and clerk, oilfield man, and an oil and gas lease salesman.  He was outgoing, confident and wanted to make people laugh.  He instilled an important sense of self responsibility in his children.  Calvin sang in a barbershop quartet, and when in a nursing home later he would often sing old gospel songs.

 

He was preceded in death by his parents, Jacob B. Payne (son of Joseph B. Payne) and Edith Mae Causey Payne Crawford and step-father, Rev. M.B. Crawford . He was also preceded in death by all his sisters, Eunice Payne Hughes, Maxey Payne Jones Coon, and Oma Payne Goins.  Calvin was survived by his son, Mike Payne; daughter, Melissa Payne Reid; granddaughters, Deni Reid Troxclair, Rene Reid Beaubouef, and Sierra Marie Payne; great-granddaughter, Cala Fay Troxclair; special niece, Tami Jones Watkins and husband, Charlie; and numerous nieces and nephews.

 

 

 





Today in the Hudson Community

 

 

Beyond the annual Payne/Foster reunions, and the biannual reunions of the Buddy and Martha Payne family branch, a few of these folks still live there.  Sue Leach (1924- ), a daughter of Buddy and Martha Payne, still lives just down the road from her parent's old place.  Patsy Sharp also resides there in the old Buddy and Martha home that her father, her husband, and she have restored and modernized over many years.  Laura Bonnette, an older sister of Sue Leach and mother of Patsy Sharp, lives in Ruston, but spends time also at her cabin just up the road from her daughter's home.

 

Others in this family own property and have cabins or residences which they visit periodically.  A few visit their places and hunt deer in the piney woods of the area.  Buddy and Martha's youngest son, I.B., now in his late eighties, his son Doug, and grandson Bryan are there from time to time.  Steve Payne spends about a week each month at the old cabin built by his great-grandfather, John T. Young, somewhere around 1880.  Steve's father, Jack Payne (1918-1995), worked to restore the old cabin (with its heart-of-pine logs) in the 1960s, 70s, and 80s. 

 

Sisters Jedonne Bradford and Olliene Thomas, daughters of Ollie Payne Kelly, also have a cabin across the road from Patsy Sharp and visit periodically.  Their mother died in 2012, just short of what would have been her 100th birthday.  On her inherited land from her father was the site of what was called the "old spring."  This spring served the Buddy and Martha family and their livestock's needs.  Prior to her death, Ollie Kelly and her daughters wanted to do something to commemorate or mark that site of the "old spring."   Steve Payne decided to try to build a short fence and gate leading to the "old spring" using the bamboo that had sprung up in places around the area.  Jedonne Bradford came up with a gate design for it.  The result is shown on the photos below.  The first photo shows it near completion, still with a blue tarp at the top of the 7-foot or more fence.  The second photo shows it after completion.  Wonder what Ollie Kelly would have thought about this???

 

 

 

More 2013 Reunion Photos

Jedonne Bradford

Sue Leach, Bryan Payne, and Olliene Thomas

 

Kelly and Mary Leach

 

 

Ronnie and Frances Payne

 

2013 Reunion Photos

 



 

 




 

Top left: Robert Leach      

Top right: President Patsy Sharp

Bottom left: Gloria Hearn and Laura Bonnette

Bottom right: I.B Payne and Billy Bustin

 

2013 REUNION



 

 

Over 20 of us were there Oct. 12 for this year's reunion.  Patsy Sharp will continue as president, and I will be secretary again for next year. 

 

I'm planning to add photos occasionally of past and current family members.  I'll start by posting the photo below of Dr. George Hearn who died a few years ago and served earlier for many years as president of the Payne-Foster Reunion.  Dr. Hearn was mentioned in an earlier post, and his wife, Gloria Hearn, told me recently that Dr. Hearn was a Louisiana College psychology faculty, not a sociology faculty member (as I had earlier indicated).  Not sure how I had received the mistaken information before, but I wanted to make that correction here.

 

 

 





2013 Payne-Foster Reunion Set For October 12

The annual Payne-Foster Reunion is scheduled this year for Saturday, Oct. 12 from 10am until later that afternoon.  Please attend and bring a covered plate dish to share with relatives.  We'll meet at the Hudson Community Center adjacent to the old Hudson tabernacle.  This site is just off Hwy. 34 about nine miles north of Winnfield, LA. 

Through this web site (and its postings in recent years) and these annual reunions, perhaps we can answer questions that you have about your family history.  We usually have some great door prizes, and the wonderful meals together are always a big part of these reunions.

DR. J. PAUL PETERS

 

 

Dr. J. Paul Peters, Jr., M.D., age 84, of Winnfield passed away on April 29, 2013.  Dr. Peters attended many Payne/Foster Reunions, and his presence and support will be missed by many.  Our condolences extend to his wife Ina Walker Peters, his son Paul, his daughter Susan Brewton (all of Winnfield), and his grandchildren. 

 

Dr. Peters was a decendant of Helen Payne (daughter of Dr. I.B. Payne and Sarah Foster Kidd Payne) and the son of James Paul Peters and Iver Walker Peters. He was born in Ruston in 1928 and was a graduate of Northwestern Louisiana State University and the LSU Medical School.  Dr. Peters was a flight surgeon captain in the US Air Force during the Korean Conflict and previously served as Winn Parish Coroner.  He was active in many civic organizations (Rotary, Shriners, etc.) and a member of the First United Methodist Church of Winnfield.