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John Edward Payton

John Edward Payton

Male 1908 - 1954  (46 years)


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  • Name John Edward Payton  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14] 
    Birth 14 Apr 1908  Louisville, Jefferson, Kentucky, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 12, 13, 14] 
    Gender Male 
    Death 21 Jun 1954  Huntington Park, Los Angeles, California, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2, 10] 
    Burial Commerce, Los Angeles, California, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 10] 
    Person ID I548  Horton Test
    Last Modified 11 Nov 2025 

    Father Cordia Roy Payton,   b. 3 Apr 1888, Harrison, Indiana, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 6 May 1964, Inglewood, Los Angeles, California, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 76 years) 
    Relationship natural 
    Mother Bessie Polsgrove,   b. 11 Apr 1888, Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 29 Jun 1959, Evansville, Vanderburgh County, Indiana, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 71 years) 
    Relationship natural 
    Marriage 24 Dec 1906  Jefferson, Kentucky Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • Marriage Records from Dec. 1906-July 1907 are missing. Their marriage record is most likely in this group.
    Divorce 18 Sep 1940  Evansville, Vanderburgh, Indiana, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [15] 
    Family ID F193  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Helen Miller Walter,   b. 29 Jul 1911, Luce Township, Spencer, Indiana, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 3 Jun 1984, Yucca Valley, San Bernardino, California, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 72 years) 
    Marriage 11 May 1929  Evansville, Vanderburgh, Indiana, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • Story told to Patricia Gail Payton by Helen are that Helen and John were married in Evansville, Indiana, on May 11, 1929. Courthouse and records were destroyed in a fire.
    Children 
     1. Patricia Gail Payton,   b. 22 Jul 1944, Maywood, Los Angeles County, California, United States of America Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 3 Mar 2019, Modesto, Stanislaus County, California, United States of America Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 74 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
     2. John Gordon Payton,   b. 4 Apr 1932, Evansville, Vanderburgh, Indiana, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 23 Oct 1996, Modesto, Stanislaus, California, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 64 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
     3. Nancy Adell Payton,   b. 1 Mar 1937, Evansville, Vanderburgh, Indiana, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 16 Aug 2000, Torrance, Los Angeles, California, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 63 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
     4. Mary Joan Payton,   b. 18 Dec 1939, Evansville, Vanderburgh, Indiana, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 7 Jan 2014, Idaho, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 74 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
     5. David Roy Payton,   b. 22 Feb 1943, Maywood, Los Angeles, California, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 23 Feb 1943, Maywood, Los Angeles, California, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 0 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
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    Family ID F200  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 11 Nov 2025 

  • Notes 
    • John Payton was a good man. He enjoyed playing baseball and was very good at it in his younger days. He had a great sense of family and took on the responsibility for his brothers children after they died.

      He loved his wife very much and showed it all the time. He would hug and kiss her until she would laugh and tell him to stop. He always had time for his children. He would play baseball out in the street with them. He loved to watch the Friday Night fights on television. Laurel and Hardy, Jerry Lewis were some of his favorite entertainers. He tried to enlist during World War ll, but was turned down. Too many children and a bad heart keep him out. He would drive around town to find servicemen who didn’t have a place to stay and would bring them home to stay with us. He was a hard drinking and fighting man. He would on occasion come home drunk and pass out on the floor.

      On Monday, June 21, 1954 he went to work and never came home. He had a heart attack while starting to work. They said he had blood clot in the heart. He died instantly. His funeral was the biggest I have ever seen. There must have been about 500 people there. They were standing outside because there was no room in the service.

  • Sources 
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    2. [S44] Ancestry.com, California, Death Index, 1940-1997, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2000;), Date: 1954-06-21.

    3. [S13] Ancestry.com, 1930 United States Federal Census, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2002;), Year: 1930; Census Place: Evansville, Vanderburgh, Indiana; Roll: 632; Page: 22B; Enumeration District: 0032; Image: 729.0; FHL microfilm: 2340367.

    4. [S51] Ancestry.com, 1940 United States Federal Census, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2012;), Year: 1940; Census Place: Evansville, Vanderburgh, Indiana; Roll: T627_1112; Page: 2A; Enumeration District: 93-32.

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