I was Thinking outside the box and would like to see if you guys will help me researh something????— (it might be nothing, but who knows).. I used to own 42% of some shallow oil and gas wells in independence Kansas— Peru Kansas is only 29 miles from Independence kansas were (madelyn payne dunham grew up)— If you know that area, it is loaded with property owners that sell there mineral rights to oil and gas companies or personal people wanting to get in that type of buinesses— as you know, royalities are passed down as a family member dies, and most of oil and gas records are public knowledge (and very detailed info)..But it could lead to interesting info if madelyn had property that was leased.. In that area oil and gas wells are everywhere- “JUST A THOUGHT”
Born on October 26, 1922, in Peru, Kansas, Madelyn moved to Augusta, KS, at age 3. Her parents, Rolla Charles Payne (1892-1968) and Leona McCurry (1897-1930), were strict Methodists who frowned upon her weekend forays to El Dorado, “the wrong side of the tracks,” where she met her future husband.
According to biographical accounts, Madelyn’s parents lived on a farm but enjoyed a ‘modest income’ from leasing their land to John D. Rockefeller’s Standard Oil Company. The Paynes were not farmers.
Madelyn eloped with SAD on May (4th or 5th), 1940, a secret she kept from her parents until after her high school graduation. Madelyn worked as a waitress and then landed a job with Boeing in Wichita as a riveter on a B-29 assembly line during WWII.
Her father managed oil leases for Standard Oil in Oklahoma and Kansas.
Fr mail....might be the source of the 500,000 she left Bo and explain why they always seemed to have money to travel the world