Adaline Maria (Brown) Payne (1834-1923)

BROWN, PAYNE

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 7/1/2014 at 21:26:44

From Nevada Evening Journal June 7, 1923

Mrs. Adaline M. Payne, 89, died at her home corner of Fifth and Avenue G this morning at 8:20 from complications incident to her advanced age. The funeral service will be held Sunday afternoon at 2:30 at Central Presbyterian church, Rev. J. George Walz officiating and interment will be in the family lot in this city, beside her life companion W. P. Payne, who passed away in October of 1921.

Mrs. Payne while naturally a frail woman had retained her vitality and mental faculties remarkably well and it was not until about two weeks ago that she had begun to fail noticeably. Yesterday she had seemed some brighter and was apparently responding nicely to the treatment, but this morning she passed away.

Her daughter-in-law, Mrs. W. O. Payne of Des Moines was with her when the end came and the only son, William O. Payne of Des Moines was at once notified and came up this forenoon.

Mrs. Payne, a native of New York, was a woman of many talents and had been long an active factor in all things that worked for good in the community.

For some time after coming to Nevada in 1875 she was engaged in the local high school of which her husband was the head. Later she was associated with her husband and son in conducting the Nevada Representative and she gained notice of state wide nature through a column, "Words for Busy Women," which she conducted in that paper.