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Caroline M. (Barton) Payne |
Caroline M. (Barton) Payne was born on Nov. 5, 1820 or 1821, the daughter of John and Mary Catherine (Kreider) Barton.
She was joined in wedlock on Aug. 21, 1849 with Edwin Walter Payne (July 29, 1821-1898).
The pair's dwelling-place was in the Spring Garden section of Philadelphia at 526 North Eighth Street, above Parrish, with him earning a living as a merchant.
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Sadly, she died at the age of 31 on May 6, 1852. Her mortal remains were lowered under the sod of Woodlands/Laurel Hill Cemetery in Philadelphia. The cause is not yet known.
The widowed Edwin married a second time to Helen E. Hammond (Oct. 27, 1830-1913), daughter of Hezikiah and Hannah Hammond. They went on to bear a large family including Carrie Barton Payne (1858-1864), William Weightman Payne (1860-1873), Warren Hammond Payne (1863-1866), Edwin Walter Payne (1868-1869), Lucie Virginia Payne (1871- ? ) and Gordon Brown Payne (1872-1873), all of whom died under the age of 13 and sleep for all time in Laurel Hill Cemetery.
Edwin passed away on March 23, 1898. In an obituary, the Wilmington (DE) News Journal said he "was at one time a student in Friends' School, this city. He was much interested in athletics and had been a member of the old Olympic Ball Club of Philadelphia."
Helen outlived him by 15 years. Suffering from senility and "pulmonary edema" -- congestive heart failure -- at the age of 82, she surrendered to the angel of death on July 23, 1913. The entire family is interred under a single, tall shaft at Laurel Hill.
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