Extracted from The Butler Herald (Butler, GA)
Thursday, April 19, 1956

County Saddened Tuesday by Death of Valuable Citizen

Funeral Services for Mr. D. W. P[a]yne Will Take Place at Reynolds Baptist Church.

Funeral services for Mr. Daniel Webster [sic Whatley] Payne, familiarly known to his many friends as “Coot,” were conducted at the Reynolds Baptist church yesterday -- Wednesday -- afternoon, four o'clock. Services were in charge of Rev. Charles Davis pastor of the Reynolds church of which the deceased was a leading member.

Mr. Payne was stricken with a heart attack early Tuesday at his home and was rushed immediately for medical treatment to a Macon hospital where he lingered for several hours before the end came.

The deceased with the son of the late D. W. [sic A. J.] and Mrs. Susan Fountain Payne. He was born in Taylor county Feb. 28, 1893 and in early young manhood was happily married to Miss Marion Sammons of Eatonton, who survives as do these relatives: Dan and Jackie Payne of Reynolds; three brothers, Eugene and Jack Payne of Reynolds and William Payne of Atlanta; three sisters, Mrs. W. L. Waldrop of Port Royal, S.C., Mrs. Susie Avera of Roberts, and Mrs. W. C. Allen of Jasper; stepmother Mrs. Elba Payne of Jasper, and a number of nieces and nephews.

After a number of years' successful business experience both in livestock and farming, Mr. Payne retired to private life due to declining health.

Mr. Payne was laid to rest in the family lot, Hill Crest cemetery. Active pallbearers included: Homer Mathews, Warren Aultman, Gene Hogan, James Gray, Henry Payne, Hubert Payne, Thomas Byrd and Dixie Harrell; honorary: A. J. and T. L. Fountain, L. D. Gordon, C. R. Simmons, B. W. Hinton, L. M. Doyel, T. Whatley, E. A. Newsom and D. E. Byrd.

Goddard Funeral Home of Reynolds was in charge of arrangements.