Dr. Dudley Payne, Dentist, Athens, Texas

Phillip Payne was the name of the doctor’s grandfather.  He lived in 
Georgia in an early day but came to Texas.  he was the father of 
Joseph B. Payne, who was in turn  the father of our subject.   Joseph 
was born and reared in Georgia.  He married Miss Mattie E. Harper in 
Magnolia, Arkansas. They had six children, four of whom are living.  
Two have passed to their reward.  The mother also died twelve months 
since.  The doctor was himself born February 2, 1874 at Kickapoo in 
Anderson county, Texas.  He was shifted around some in his rearing 
and received tuition at the common schools at different points, but 
graduated in the high School of Hot Springs, Arkansas.  He chose to be 
a dentist and desiring the very best equipment, chose the Baltimore college 
of dental surgery in which to take a professional course.  He began his 
professional life as a dentist in 1896 and has maintained a good name 
for proficiency and tho’ young is one of the representative men in his line.  
March 26, 1901 he married Miss Fannie Jones and they are the happy 
parents of little Joseph Jones.  The father of Dr. Payne was resident 
physician at Hot Springs for a period.  Mrs. Payne is a niece of 
Mrs. W. L. Faulk.  The doctor is a mason and an odd fellow, is of 
pleasing address and regarded as quite competent in his line.  His 
office is in the Faulk and Gauntt Building at this time.

The Southland Waco, Texas Feburary 1903
Vol. XI No. 1