NAME/DOM/POM: Marriage info posted to the Caddo Co., OK website. Cannot find
any Sumner Payne's in 1930 census who are married to a Bertha.
CENSUS: 1930 Chickasha city, Grady Co., OK, ward 1 p 102 SH 14A ED 7
PAYNE, Sumner L., head, owns home worth $1800, owns a radio set, does not live on a farm, 47y, widow, married first at age 42, b TX, parents b NC, house carpenter
[Nerach?], John H., head, rents for $20/month, 21y b OK, parents b TX, house carpenter, first married at 20
", Martha L., wife 20y b OK, parents b MO, first married at 19
Draft registration card shows name as Sumner LaFayette Payne of Malfriz?, Colfax Co., NM, 36y, b Sep 4, 1882. Farming for self. Nearest relative is Henry W. Payne of Farmersville, Collin Co., TX. Tall height, stout build, gray eyes, l. brown hair. Registered Sept. 17, 1918. Ancestry.com. World War I Selective Service System Draft Registration Cards, 1917-18 [database online] Provo, UT: Ancestry.com, 2002
I'm searching for more info on Bertha (Foor) Payne. If that is the correct 1930 census for Sumner, then she died sometime in between their marriage in 1922 and the census of 1930. I have no idea her date of birth, etc., so I'm looking for death or burial info on any Bertha Payne in OK.