Mary “Polly” Martin Payne
Birth unknown
Albemarle County, Virginia, USA
Death 5 Jun 1857
Barren County, Kentucky, USA
Burial: Payne Cemetery #2
Temple Hill, Barren County, Kentucky, USA
After the death of his first wife, Anne ((Martin) Payne, BENJAMIN PAYNE married MARY "Polly" MARTIN, sister of Anne (see Photos):
Virginia Marriages, 1785-1940
Name: Benjamin Payne
Spouse's Name: Molley Martin
Event Date: 09 Apr 1789
Event Place: Amherst County, Virginia
MARY “Polly” (MARTIN) PAYNE was the mother of eight children with Benjamin, with four living and four deceased (by 1857), according to her death notice in the Christian Advocate of Nashville (see Photos). But only seven children are named—counting John and excluding William—in Benjamin’s Last Will and Testament.
We have no records of any other children born to Benjamin and Polly during most of the decade of the 1790s. Whether John belonged to Anne or Polly, perhaps Benjamin and Polly were initially devoted to raising young William and John in their new household. At least one unknown child that failed to survive may have been born during this period (see “Unknown Child Payne” below). If Anne was the mother of John Payne, then Benjamin and Polly may have lost two unknown children that could have been born during this period.
MARY “Polly” (MARTIN) PAYNE was living in 1850 with her son, Benjamin M. Payne. Polly is believed buried along with her husband, Benjamin, and her son, Benjamin M[artin], and daughters, Elizabeth and Jane, in Payne Cemetery #2. Other unmarked family gravesites may be there, as well.
The family line of Mary Martin and her siblings, Anne, John, William, and James, was based in Albemarle and Amherst Counties, Virginia. William Martin was a trustee of the (historic) town of Pikesville, in the community of old southwest Barren (Monroe, after 1820) County, Kentucky, where John Martin and Joseph Martin were also early settlers. In his Last Will and Testament, Benjamin Payne appointed William Martin to serve as Executor of his estate. William and Letitia (Young) Martin lived at Pikesville (near Lamb, north of Flippin, today).
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