Alexander Dixon Payne

Alexander Dixon Payne N M V R C P B K Y Photo: See Bliss reference for photo. [See also Book[2844] by George N. Bliss, R.I. Cav., p. 13. Check # out. Has (Hugh Hamilton) Photo. Also has pictures of A.D. Payne. #] Photo dated 1916 in newspaper clipping located in file of John. W. Stone.[2845] Have one of him with Erasmus Helm and James Keith in the Photos Binder; not scanned. Dink has individual photo.[2846] A photograph of Alexander Dixon Payne, Erasmus Helm, Jr., [BH] and James Keith [BH] appears at reference.[2847] Born: [NOTE:is his name card scanned? (in Payne Papers file)] “30 Sept 1837 in Warrenton….”[2848] 30 Sept 1837.[2849] Married: To “… Ann Morson Scott [on] 1 July 1868 at St. James Episcopal Church, Warrenton, Rev. J. R. Hubbard officiating…” She “was [born] 29 June 1841 at “Oakwood”, [Fauquier County]; she [died] 29 Apl 1915 in Warrenton … [and] was buried in Warrenton Cemetery; her grave is marked.” Her parents were “Robert Eden Scott[2850] of “Oakwood” and [wife] Ann Casson Morson of “Holly Wood”, [Stafford] County….”[2851] She was the daughter of Congressman Robert Eden Scott and Ann Morson. She was born in 1842 at Oakwood.[2852] Her parents wed on 18 October 1838. Her mother died on 2 October 1846 “and was buried at Hartwood Churchyard, Stafford Co., Va.” Her father died on 3 May 1862 and was buried at Oakwood.[2853] “Mrs. Alec D. Payne, a well-known resident of Warrenton, died at Garfield Hospital, Washington, D. C., on Thursday afternoon, April 29, 1915….”[2854] See Obituary Chapter. She died one year almost to the day after her son, who passed on 23 April 1914.[2855] “Died—Ann Morson Scott, wife of Alesander Dixon Payne daughter of Ann Morson and Robert Eden Scott of Oakwood, Fauquier Co., Virginia, at the Garfield Hospital, Washington, D. C.,, at 4:10 o’clock, April 29, 1915. Was buried at Warrenton Cemetery on May 1st at 4 o’clock.”[2856] Died: “… 8 [March] 1893 at his home in Warrenton; buried in Warrenton Cemetery, services conducted from same Church by Rev. George W. Nelson; grave is marked.”[NOTE:missing a footnote—check Paynes of Virginia.] 8 March 1893.[2857] Buried Warrenton.[2858] “Alexander Dixon Payne son of Richards Payne and Alice Fitzhugh Dixon died March 8, 1893 at 2 o’clock A. M. at his home Chestnut, Warrenton, Virginia, and was buried Friday, March 10, 1893 at 3 o’clock P. M. in the Warrenton Cemetery.”[2859] An eight-foot column at his grave is carved, “In Memory of/ Alexander Dixon Payne,/… “Heavens Morning Breaks, And Earth’s Vain Shadows Flee; In Life, In Death, O Lord Abide With Me.” ” Behind the column stands a C. S. A. marker.[2860] Obituary: “A Warrenton paper contains his obituary written by Judge James Keith, who—after paying tribute to his character and ability—well describes him physically as possessed of ‘a tall and commanding figure, a stately presence, and a countenance full of sincerity and intelligence.”[2861] “His mind … was fully trained by severe study in his profession, and adorned by an intimate and appreciative acquaintance with ancient and modern literature.”[2862] “The remains were carried by pall bearers selected from among the survivors of the Black Horse, … and they were followed by an escort of the same who carried the folded flag of the company.”[2863] See Obituary Chapter. Insert pointers for two obits just pasted to Obit Ch.; add pointers for pallbearers also. (7 aug 2005) #See obits. Eulogy by Gen. Payne. Carr scrapbook.[2864] See obit in Jones Bible, Lynn Hopewell has copy.# Children: “Capt and Mrs. Payne had [eight] children ….”[2865] Three of these eight, Margaret Lee, Richards Winter, and Morson, died infants. Margaret lived from Dec 1872 until June 1873; Richards W. lived for eleven days in August 1877; Morson was stillborn. [Margaret was born on 21 December 1872. She died on 29 June 1873; Richards Winter on 13 August 1877; Morson on 10 July 1881. Richards was born on 2 August 1877.[2866]] Their eldest, Robert Eden Scott Payne (1869–1914), never married. “From childhood he exhibited a marked musical talent, and became an accomplished pianist. He studied four years at the Metropolitan Academy of Music, New York City. Only his frailness of health prevented his attaining a postion of renown in his vocation.” [He was born on 31 March 1869 and died at 8:30 p. m. on 23 April 1914, in Warrenton.[2867]] Ann Morson (1876–1943[2868]) and Agnes Lee (1878–1958) never married. They lived “with [their] sisters at “Mecca”, Culpeper [Street], Warrenton.” [Ann was born on 31 January 1876. [2869]] Alice Dixon (1870–1966) married Herbert Henry Carr (1867–1899) on 10 January 1898.[2870] “They sailed at once on the Teutonic for England.” Her husband was born “at Black Heath, Kent [County], England, son of William I. Carr of Ingatestone, Essex [County], England ….” He died and is buried in Warrenton. “They had no children.” After his death, Alice resided “with her sisters at “Mecca”… .” [A metal seal naming her “a true daughter” stands beside her stone in Warrenton Cemetery.[2871]] [She was born on 23 December 1970.[2872]] Eliza Rives (1874–after 1937) married “Charles Daniell of Hampshire, England, [on] 22 Dec 1896 in Warrenton. He was son of Captain Ralph A. Daniell of the British Army, a charming gentleman who came to Fauquier … shortly after the Civil War, and was one of the outstanding good riders and enthusiastic fox hunters of his period. Mr. and Mrs. Daniell had [two] children.”[2873] [Eliza was born on 29 April 1874.[2874]] Agnes Lee Payne, Nannie Payne, Mrs. Charles Daniells, and Mrs. H. H. Carr[2875] are listed as their children in her obituary at the time of Ann Morsen Payne’s death in April 1915. Agnes Lee Payne was born on 3 June 1878. Ann Morson Payne was born on 10 July 1881 “and was buried on evening of the same day in the Cemetery in Warrenton.”[2876] Parents and Siblings: Alice Fitzhugh Dixon (15 October 1812–23 February 1900) and Richards Payne (8 August 1809–25 December 1871).[2877] He was born at Granville and died in Warrenton. They wed on 17 Sept 1834 in Warrenton. Both are buried in Warrenton.[2878] His siblings were: William Winter, Richards, Ella, Alice Dixon, Roberta Townshend, Elizabeth Winter, Agnes Robb, and Mary Winston.[2879] Other Family: Eight Payne men in the Black Horse Cavalry were descended from one individual, George Payne. George Payne (1727–1770) had six children. Two were William and Richard. John Scott Payne [BH], Rice W. H. Payne [BH], and William H. F. Payne [BH], were grandsons of William; John Daniel Payne [BH] and Alexander Dixon Payne were William’s great-grandsons. Daniel James Payne [BH], John William Payne [BH], and Joseph Fant Payne [BH] were grandsons of Richard.[2880] William (1755–1837) married first Susannah Richards and second Marion Andrew Morson. He had three children by each marriage.[2881] “[In] 1799 he built the residence at “Clifton”, [Fauquier County] …. … He was known in the family as Captain Pepper … .” He served in the Revolutionary Army.[2882] Richard (1763–1843) married first Susannah Kelly and second Mary Major. He and Susannah had one child. During 1796 or -7, he and Mary moved from Westchester to Culpeper County. “They named the Culpeper home “Bleak Hill”. It is about three miles North of the [1937] Court House and to the right of the road to Rixeyville. Here fifteen children were born.” Susannah Kelly’s brother John married Jane Payne, sister of Richard and William, and another of George’s six children. Other Black Horse members were probably descended from George through Jane.[2883] See[2884] Alexander Dixon Payne’s maternal grandparents were “… Turner Dixon of “Vermont”, [Fauquier],” and Maria Turner (1812–1900), “his cousin.” “[H]er grave in the Warrenton Cemetery is marked.”[2885] Buried in Warrenton Cemetery.[2886] Henry Turner Dixon was “the only man in Fauquier County to vote for Abraham Lincoln [in the 1860 elections].”[2887] Alexander’s paternal grandparents were Daniel Payne and Elizabeth Hooe Winter. [Daniel was a son of the above-mentioned William.[2888]] “A family record describes [Alexander’s grandfather] as ‘5 ft. 6 in. in height; weight 140 lbs.; ruddy complexion; red hair; grey eyes; vigorous health; a Federalist-Whig… .’ [A relative] refers to him … as ‘… very agreeable and fond of talking, and on no subject more than that about which I have been writing:’—family history.” Daniel’s will “prescribes that a stone shall be placed over his wife’s grave, with the following inscription: ‘Underneath this stone doth lie/ As much virtue as could die.’ (Paraphrasing Ben Johnson).”[2889] Alexander’s parents married on “17 Sept 1834 in Warrenton, … “a cloudy day, a happy couple”, Rev. George Lemmon officiating….” His father’s “home on Culpeper Street, Warrenton, built in 1816 by Hon. Thomas L. Moore of stone from an early nearby court-house, is a model of that by-gone architecture which has never been surpassed in charming simplicity and durability. Richards Payne purchased it in 1839.” Richards Payne “… practiced law in Warrenton until 1850. Shortly thereafter he was elected judge of the Fauquier Court, which office he held till the outbreak of the Civil War. [In] 1861 he was elected to the Virginia Legislature.” He died and was buried in Warrenton.[2890] A. D. Payne’s wife, Ann Morson (Scott), was niece of John Scott, Jr. [BH];[2891] see his entry for more about Alex’s politician father-in-law, Robert Eden Scott. A. D. Payne’s wife, Ann Morson (Scott), was double first cousin to the wives of James Keith [BH]. See the entry of her paternal uncle, John Scott [BH], for the genealogy of her father. Also see John Scott’s entry for her royal lineage through her mother. “John Alexander known as ‘The Emigrant,’ youngest son of Sir William Alexander, 1st Earl Stirling, Viscount Canada and Barron Nova Scotia, emigrated to Virginia in 1660 and settled in Stafford Cunty. He left two sons, Robert and Philip. “The above Robert was born in 1688, died in 1735, married Miss Fowke. He left two sons, John and Gerard [? handwritten] and three daughters—1st Parthenia (Mrs. Massey); 2nd Sarah (Mrs. Dade); and Anne married to John Hooe about 1730. “Richard Hooe eldest son of John Hooe and Anne his wife married Anne Ireland about 1760. “Catharine Talliaferro only daughter of above marriage was born Aug 6th 1766 and married William Winter of Efflin Hills, Charles Co., Md in 1780. Issue: William, Richard, & Elizabeth Hooe. “Elizabeth Hooe Winter married Daniel Payne July 9th 1895 and had issue: (1) Wm Richards Hooe Winter Payne; (2) Richards Payne [father of the cavaryman]; (3) John Scott Payne; (4) Elizabeth Hooe Winter Payne; (5) Rice Winfield Hooe Payne & Alban Smith Payne—a son named Robert and a daughter named Susan died.”[2892] Stories, Letters & Biographies: “Lieut. Payne rode in town Thursday with a Yankee Lieut., having captured him the other side of the river.”[2893] See Stories Chapter. See Stories Chapter for an anecdote about A. D. Payne, Lyttleton Helm and John Singleton Mosby. “At the surrender at Appomattox I was at home on horse detail. On my return trip to the Company, I met it at Madison Courthouse. They had refused to surrender.”[2894] See Stories Chapter under John Edward Armstrong. “One … duel … was to be engaged … between Colonel Mosby and Captain Alexander Payne ….”[2895] See Stories Chapter under James Keith. Mentioned in Courtney Washington’s obituary. See Obituary Chapter. “A. D. Payne, Attorney at Law, Warrenton, Va., Practices in the State and Federal Courts. Special attention given to cases in bankruptcy. Office, Bank Building.”[2896] This cavalryman was one of nine who joined to announce the 1890 Reunion. See discussion of the Reunion Photograph at the Introduction. “Capt. A. D. Payne, who carried the renowned Black Horse Company to the finish at Appomattox, was here, brave, honorable, just. A whole community mourned his early death and now have a memory of him as a precious treasure embalmed in their hearts.”[2897] “He was a fine man, an admirable soldier and a good safe counselor at law.”[2898] See Biographies Chapter. “On the 18th of May, 1861,”… “soldiers in the Spartan sense”… “observed a Masonic sign”… “always counted on the Black Horse in emergencies”… “a gem of eloquence”… “an old Black Horseman… said the other day”….[2899] See Stories Chapter under The Black Horse Troop. CSR: 6’1”, fair complexion, light hair, grey eyes; William & Mary law student; enlisted 25 April 1861; 3rd Lt.; elected 2nd Lt. 19 September 1861; elected 1st Lt. 25 April 1862; captured 6 November 1862; absent December 1862 just exchanged and refitting self; detached with Provost Marshall July to August 1863 Fredericksburg; captured 18 April 1863 Orleans; exchanged 18 May 1863; promoted Capt. 1 September 1863; horse killed 29 September 1864 Waynesborough; paid $3,500; saved Regimental Colors 9 April 1865; paroled 24 April 1865 Winchester; Mayor of Warrenton; Virginia General Assembly Mamber. Additional Information: He was one of a group of eight cavalrymen from Company H who were captured on 16 April 1863 at Fayetteville. Also captured on this date were William Osborne Caynor [BH] and Rawleigh William Downman [BH].[2900] [NOTE:Sus—Find out who were the other eight. Sketch it out & direct all to one recitation of it. ***Check Col. Payne’s book & clarify in fn what data from wh/ source. *** The email gives the date & number captured. Payne gives that A. D. P. commanded the troop in 1863, per fn @ RWD entry.] “[In] 1853 he entered William and Mary College, Williamsburg … and was there three years, lodging the first year with Mrs. Maupin, and the last two years with Mrs. Dix. [In] 1857 he entered the University of Virginia and studied law; he was there one year.”[2901] One “A. D. Payne” attended a “Southern Rights meeting” in March 1861. One “A. D. Payne’s lawyer’s office” was robbed around January of the same year.[2902] Listed as 3rd Lt.[2903] Listed as Captain.[2904] He was one of a group of eight cavalrymen from Company H who were captured on 16 April 1863 at Fayetteville. Also captured on this date were William Osborne Caynor [BH] and Rawleigh William Downman [BH].[2905] [NOTE:Sus—Find out who were the other eight. Sketch it out & direct all to one recitation of it. ***Check Col. Payne’s book & clarify in fn what data from wh/ source. *** The email gives the date & number captured. Payne gives that A. D. P. commanded the troop in 1863, per fn @ RWD entry.] “Apl 1861 he was made Lieutenant in the Black Horse Cavalry of [Fauquier County], which he commanded in 1863 and served with throughout the War. It was incorporated in the 4th Va. Cavalry, General Fitz Lee’s Division. After the war he practiced law. He was three times Mayor of Warrenton. He nominated General Hancock for President 1880. He was [a] member of the State Legislature 1885–7, representing Loudoun and Fauquier.”[2906] See personal and family sketch in “Personal Biographies - State of Virginia.” Copy in Virginia Historical Society. See Jeffires Also sketch of AD Payne, p 232. N ViHi has diary. See letter to father while captured, Carr Scrapbook. Put in Bravest. A. D. Payne is mentioned at reference.[2907] Captain A. D. Payne of Warrenton is listed as a General Member of Virginia Tech’s [get official name?] Board of Visitors during 1887.[2908]