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JOSEPH PAYNE, farmer, post office Coal Valley, son of James and Hannah (Allison) Payne, was born in Jefferson township, this county, in 1825. His grandfather, Joseph Payne, and his grandmother, Susan (Brown) Payne, were both natives of Fawn township, York county, Pa. The former left York county with the intention of going to Kentucky, but on visiting a cousin in Snowden township, Allegheny county, he was persuaded to locate in the latter county. Previous to his departure from York county he married Susan Brown, and they located in 1795 on the farm now owned by William Lemuel and Milo Curry, in Jefferson township, on Lick run, near Cochran’s Mill, a station on the Baltimore railroad. While in York county they had two children born: Easter (the late Mrs. George Cochran, Sr.) and Mary (the late Mrs. Peter Shepler). Benjamin, John, Jane and James were born in Jefferson township. Benjamin married Margaret Cunningham, lived here some years and then removed to Iowa, where they both died; John married Margaret Gass, who survives him; Jane married Jonathan Walker; James married Hannah Allison, and they reared a family of five children: Susan (now a resident of West Elizabeth), William A. (of Jefferson township), Joseph, James and Eliza (who died in 1852). Joseph married, in 1855, Dorcas Theresa, daughter of Samuel Cochran, of Mifflin township, this county, and located on the farm adjoining the one where he was born and where they still reside. Their children are James H. (who married Eliza Bradshaw, of Jefferson township, their home now being at McKeesport), and Samuel V., Charles B., William W., Hannah G., Susan A., all at home. Mr. and Mrs. Payne are members of the Lebanon Presbyterian Church. He has the patent to his place, which dates back to 1785 for one portion, and the other to 1787.