Excerpted from the Local Twinklings column:

Our whole people deeply sympathize with Rev. Dr. PAYNE and Mesdames S.R. FOWLE and J.B. SPARROW as well as other relatives and friends, in the untimely death of Dr. PAYNE, of Lexington.  He was the brother of Rev. Dr. PAYNE and the father of the two ladies mentioned.

Source: Washington Gazette (Washington, NC), 28 February 1895, page 3.