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.
I bet those royalities are passed down all the way to “0” from the dunham property.. and it also explains why they moved aroud all the time if stanley armour was chasing oil and gas leases for standard oil— I bet my Left N-t we can get some VERY good info from the dunham oil and gas lease