Orlena Payne and David Martin

David MARTIN (my husband's 3rd great-grandfather) was a plantation owner with about 500 slaves in Van Buren County, Tennessee.  He is found there in 1850 with his wife, Orlena PAYNE, and again in the 1860 census with Orlena and their two children, Mary Jane MARTIN age 6 (born May 1854) and William Stephen MARTIN, always called Billy (born Jul 1859) age 1.  David was a farmer and Orlena was a seamstress.  Orlena was sickly - she had tuberculosis.  Billy was nursed and raised by a black woman - a nanny.


The story goes that the Civil War was hard on the family - and when the war was over and all the slaves were freed, they lost everything.  David decided to move the family to Missouri and see if they could get a fresh start.  All they had was one horse - and even he died on the way to Missouri.  The family had to eat the fat part of the horse to keep from starving.


They settled in Missouri and are found in the Texas, Dent, Missouri 1870 census.  The family consists of David, Orlena, William (Billy), Mary, and Mary's husband B F DYER (Benjamin Franklin DYER).  David is illiterate - cannot read or write.  Orlena cannot write, the census states.


David moved and is found in the 1876 Census in Texas County, Missouri, with his wife Orlena, daughter Mary and son William.  Incidentally, Mary is also listed in the census (just before her parents) as Mary DYER with her husband and 2 sons, Utah and Franklin.


David is found in Texas County again in the 1880 Census with wife Orlena, son William, and William's wife Ella Orvilla BOWER, and son Albert.


Sometime between 1880 and 1886, David's beloved wife, Orlena, died.  Family history says that David then married a widow with 10 children.  A marriage record from Licking, Texas, Missouri, confirms this fact - that David Martin married Mrs. Loucindey WHITE in Jul 1886.  David was almost 70 then and no record is found of him or a Loucindey MARTIN in 1900.  I have no idea how old Loucindey was, either.


Where is Orlena buried?  What year did she die?  When did David die?  Where is he buried?  And Loucindey - when was she born?  where was she from?  what was her maiden name?  who was she married to before David?  when did she die?