Sam Payne

In the late winter of 1900, a sense of duty called Deputy Sheriff Sam Payne and his brother to a home in Peeryville, a community in McDowell County, West Virginia. Payne, a 35-year-old male, was attempting to serve a warrant on a man who had been recently released from prison after serving time for murder. The warrant was for a lesser charge, that of the man having fired his gun several days earlier.

On Monday, February 19, 1900, as the two brothers approached the residence, the wanted ma ...

Deputy Sheriff Sam Payne