Dinning-Payne Family Bible

Marriages:

• G. W. Payne was married to M. F. Herndon – November 18, 1847.
• Mary Elizabeth Payne, daughter of G. W. and M. F. Payne was married March 14, 1867.
• Orin Fowler Payne, son of G. W. and M. F. Payne, was married December 25, 1889.
• Mrs. M. F. Payne and Filmon Norris were married July 4, 1861.
• Carrie E. Dinning and James Cocker were married September 25, 1889.
• Ozella Payne and James P. Harder were married November 4, 1874.
• G. M. Dinning and Mrs. Susie Hets were married April 7, 1907.

Births:

• George W. Payne was born March 6, 1824.
• Mary F. Payne was born March 6, 1828.
• Hurbaret Payne was born October 6, 1848.
• Mary E. Payne was born June 3, 1850.
• Orm Fowler Payne was born October 15, 1852.
• Ozella Payne was born November 2, 1854.
• Lucy Payne was born November 26, 1856.
• John A. Norris was born May 26, 1862.
• Filmon Norris was born March 3, 1865.

Deaths:

• George W. Payne died June 2, 1858
• Lucy Payne died August 17, 1873
• Ozella Payne died November 28, 1881
• Filmon Norris died December 13, 1885
• John Norris died December 15, 1900
• Mary F. Norris died April 23, 1915
• Mary E. Dinning Harris died December 29, 1918.  She was fond of these lines as they applied to her days of schooling.  “I’ve wandered to the village, Tom, I’ve sat beneath the tree.  Upon the schoolhouse playground that sheltered you and me.  But none were left to greet me, Tom, and few were left to know, Who played with us upon the green, some twenty years ago.”  (Sophia)
• O. F. Payne died August 17, 1919 in Texas.
• Willard Dinning died March 29, 1960.

• Mr. M. E. Dinning and Mr. Solomon Harris were married August 26, 1896.
• Willard C. Dinning and Ethel B. were married September 3, 1896.
• Sophia Mary Dinning and Will Smith were married July 18, 1900.
• Miss Binnie George Warder and Earl James Carson were married July 29, 1903.
• Lillian E. Warder and William B. Douglass were married November 25, 1908.
• Lillian C. Dinning and Wayne Lee Robinson were married September 16, 1919.
• W. C. Dinning and Ella Jane C. were married May 27, 1939.

“Grandma is dead; never were hands folded on a purer heart; never did human eyes look on a sweeter face, and now thou are forever gone.  We could not save you from the grave.”  (Sophia)