1871

J. C. Payne - Gadsden Tenn. - Madison Presbytery - West Tennessee Synod
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1871, page 79]

1871

J. C. Pane [sic] - Minister Absent - Madison Presbytery
Rev. J. C. Pane, [sic] of the Madison Presbytery, arrived and being called upon submitted reasons for tardiness, which were on motion, not sustained as satisfactory and he took his seat.
[Source: Minutes of West Tennessee Synod of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, October 13 & 14, 1871, pages 243 & 248]

1872

J. C. Payne - Gadsden, Tenn. - Madison Presbytery - West Tennessee Synod
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1872, page 124]

1872

J. C. Payne - Minister Present
Rev. J. C. Payne - chair of Committee on Missions and Meetings
Presbyterial Directory Listing: J. D. Payne [sic: J. C. Payne] - Gadsden, Tenn.
[Source: Minutes of Madison Presbytery of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, September 1872, pages 3, 4 & 14]

1872

J. C. Payne - Minister Absent
[Source: Minutes of West Tennessee Synod of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, October 18, 1872, page 262]

1873

J. D. [sic: J. C.] Payne - Memphis, Tenn. - Madison Presbytery - West Tennessee Synod
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1873, page 100]

1873

Rev. J. C. Payne, formerly of Gadsden and late of Memphis, died with the yellow fever on the 18th inst.
[Source: Crockett County Sentinel (Alamo, Tennessee), Friday, October 3, 1873]

1873

Your committee on deceased ministers report, that Rev's Bros P. L. Dozier and J. C. Pain [sic] have been recently called from labor on earth to the reward which awaited them in the Paradise of God.

Bro. Pain [sic] was a faithful minister of the Madison Presbytery. He died at his residence in Memphis, Tenn.
[Source: Minutes of West Tennessee Synod of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, October 17, 1873, page 293]

1874

Since the meeting of the last General Assembly the following named ministers of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church "have finished their course" and have gone to receive their "crown of righteousness":

... Rev. J. C. Payne, Madison Presbytery.
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1874, page 33]