There is no Payne Sources Page as yet.
Because I saw an Internet reference (I don't remember where) to Ruth Payne Bever being born in 1837 in Indiana, I will put this one reference on this page before the rest of the page is ready:
Ruth Payne Bever: death certificate
Centralia, Lewis County, Washington State
1922, Record No. 124, Registered No. 40
FHL film number 0196593
Born: 2 Feb 1836, Illinois
Died: 6 April 1922, Centralia, Lewis Co., Washington
Parents:
Wm Payne b. Tenn
Mahalath Haworth b. Ohio
Added 10 April 2002