{"id":1176,"date":"2024-09-29T20:59:09","date_gmt":"2024-09-29T20:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/marion\/?p=1176"},"modified":"2024-09-29T20:59:09","modified_gmt":"2024-09-29T20:59:09","slug":"robert-marion-payne-biography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/marion\/2024\/09\/29\/robert-marion-payne-biography\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert Marion Payne Biography"},"content":{"rendered":"<article id=\"post-8371\" class=\"post-8371 post type-post status-publish format-standard category-bledsoe category-burritt-college category-lookout-mountain-institute category-marion category-surname-p category-univ-of-the-south-sewanee category-x_featured-image-no tag-bean tag-heifner tag-mcmahan tag-orme tag-payne czr-hentry\">\n<div class=\"post-entry tc-content-inner\">\n<section class=\"post-content entry-content \">\n<div class=\"czr-wp-the-content\">\n<p><strong>PAYNE, Robert Marion<\/strong>, farmer, teacher, merchant and hotel proprietor; born near Jasper, Tenn., April 3, 1848; Irish-English and Dutch descent; son of&nbsp;<strong>Lewis and Mary (Bean) PAYNE<\/strong>; father\u2019s occupation, farmer; paternal grandparents&nbsp;<strong>Robert and Sarah (McMahan) PAYNE<\/strong>, maternal grandparents&nbsp;<strong>Obediah and Barbara (Heifner) BEAN<\/strong>; educated in the country schools, Lookout Mt. Educational Institute, Burritt College, and University of the South, graduated from the latter in 1873; while a boy at home in 1862-64 he frequently acted as spy and informer for Confederate Scouts, and at one time was arrested and put in guard house by Federals at Bridgeport, Ala.; in 1873 he was elected President of People\u2019s College, Pikeville, Tenn., taught until March, 1879, when he entered the mercantile business at South Pittsburg, Tenn., at which place he operated the Battle Creek coal mines and was for several years owner and manager of South Pittsburg (Tenn.) Brick and Terra Cotta Co.; former member of the City Council of South Pittsburg, Tenn., and resident of City School Board, Superintendent of Public Instruction for Marion Co., Tenn.; moved to Monteagle in 1895, and has since that time been engaged in the hotel business; for ten years past a large part of his time has been given to the improvement and development of Wonder Cave, of which he is owner and manager; married&nbsp;<strong>Emma E. ORME<\/strong>, Dec. 23, 1875; member Masonic Lodge; M. E. Church, South.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<footer class=\"post-footer clearfix\">\n<div class=\"row entry-meta justify-content-between align-items-center\">\n<div class=\"post-tags col-xs-12 col-sm-auto col-sm\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/footer>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PAYNE, Robert Marion, farmer, teacher, merchant and hotel proprietor; born near Jasper, Tenn., April 3, 1848; Irish-English and Dutch descent; son of&nbsp;Lewis and Mary (Bean) PAYNE; father\u2019s occupation, farmer; paternal grandparents&nbsp;Robert and Sarah (McMahan) PAYNE, maternal grandparents&nbsp;Obediah and Barbara (Heifner) BEAN; educated in the country schools, Lookout Mt. Educational Institute, Burritt College, and University of the South, graduated from the latter in 1873; while a boy at home in 1862-64 he frequently acted as spy and informer for Confederate Scouts,&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/marion\/2024\/09\/29\/robert-marion-payne-biography\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-surname-family-history-website"],"modified_by":"Bettye Seaton Liberty","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/marion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/marion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/marion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/marion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/marion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1176"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/marion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1178,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/marion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1176\/revisions\/1178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/marion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/marion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/marion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}