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Directions:Mix thoroughly. Add tears of joy, sorrow and sympathy. Fold in 4 cups of prayer and faith. Blend warmth of human kindness and serve with a smile anytime. Enjoy daily!
....Author Unknown
Radke Family History
Reinhold Radke had three brothers and one sister. They were raised by their uncle as their windowed mother ran off with a gentleman friend to Argentina. She tried to get in touch with them in the late 1930's but they just tore up the letter. They were bitter about being deserted. Reinhold was a brick layer, his brothers were one a cabinet maker, plasterer, and bricklayer.
He came to Cleveland, Ohio, USA in 1910 as there was a big German settlement there. Anna and William came in 1911. William was 10 months old when the shipped over. Reinhold died of cancer in December of 1951. Reinhold and Anna were decedents of the Germans who were taken to Russia by Peter the Great. He wanted them to teach their trades and farming to the Russian peasants. The Germans were allowed to keep their own language and customs and religion, so they were Germans living in Russia. Tuchzyn was later given to Poland so on William R. Radke's birth certificate it says birthplace was Poland.
Ann Radke often spoke of making the trip from Tuchzyn to Odessa across the Black Sea. One time she had money sewn into the lining of her coat. She was taking it to her sister in Odessa.
Anna Radke was active right up to her time of death in 1969. She was very healthy, loved to walk, garden, crochet and enjoyed parties and playing cards. She died of lung cancer in December of 1969. Her people were shop keepers, tailors and sausage makers. They sent Anna to be educated when it was not a custom for girls to be educated. Two of her sisters lived to be in their nineties.
Written by Vivian Radke
Payne Family History
I've picked out the information that concerns my grandfather.
His name was McCager Payne, and he was the fifteenth child of Robert Payne and Nancy McMahon. He was born in 1845 and died 1925 in Decherd, Tennessee. He married Nancy Ann Duncan and they had eight children. After her death he married my grandmother Elizabeth Cooper and they had five children all born in Decherd, Tennessee. My mother was Sallie Elizabeth. One child died at age three or four due to an accident. The other children were Ellen Payne Manis, Jim Payne, and Dave Payne.
My grandmother had some Indian blood. She was supposed to have been with some of the Indians that hid out and did not participate in the Trail of Tears ... It might have been her parents....
The eldest member of the Payne family was John Payne who married Francis Arnold born 1710, died 1770. One of their sons was Robert Payne born 1755, died 1082 and married Rachel Lord. He was a Virginian and Rachel was also a Virginian. To them was born a large family, seven daughters and three sons. Robert and Rachel were the great great grandparents of Vivian Radke. He lived in Virginia until the close of the Revolutionary War. He then moved to Burke County, now Alexander County, North Carolina. He settled on upper Little River in March 1789, and later dies there in 1802.
He served three enlistments in the Revolutionary War. He was in the trenches under the command of Lafayette when Cornwallis surrendered.
Robert and Rachel's son, Robert Payne, was their youngest son. He was born 1794 and died 1859. He was born in North Carolina. He married Nancy McMahon, born 1803 died 1872. They had sixteen children, 12 boys and four girls. One of their sons, Vivian's grandfather, McCager was born in Tennessee where his father moved in 1825 to take up a land grant.
Sallie Elizabeth Payne Kirby, born 1891 died 1974 in Panama City, Florida. She was buried in Cleveland, Ohio in Brooklyn Heights Cemetery. She married Cowan Kirby born 1888 in Alabama, he died 1958 and is buried beside Sallie.
Most of our ancestors were farmers. There were a few blacksmiths.
My grandfather, McCager was a farmer and a blacksmith. My mother always said he was a very good provider. When he went to town it was mostly for coffee, tea, spices, and material for clothes. Mom said he was a very generous man and when someone came to have any blacksmith work done they knew they would always get a good meal, grandfather liked company very much. I wonder how grandmother felt about the huge crowds she was always feeding.
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