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Payne County is available for
adoption, if interested please e-mail the
State
coordinator for details.
Linda
Simpson,
State Coordinator or
Mel
Owings,
Assistant Coordinator
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Payne
County was opened to settlement in the Oklahoma land run of
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Captain
David L. Payne, is a veteran of the Civil War for whom Payne
County, Oklahoma is named. Captain Payne is also known as the
Father of Oklahoma and led several groups of settlers into the
area of Indian Territory, now the site of Stillwater, Oklahoma.
Payne served in the 10th Kansas Infantry Regiment during the war.
A memorial has been erected over his burial site in Stillwater's
Boomer Lake Park. The site is marked by the original gravestone
erected by the James Shield Post #57 of the Grand Army of the
Republic of Wellington, Kansas where he was originally buried.