Hiram Payne, son of John Payne and Jemima Hutchinson, was born on January 13, 1863 in Andover or Lebanon, Connecticut. He married Chloe Thayer on October 27, 1797. On December 4, 1833, he signed the “Testimony of 51 Neighbors,” later printed in Mormonism Unvailed.[1] He died on March 22, 1845 and was buried in the Palmyra City Cemetery.
[1] Howe, Mormonism Unvailed, pp. 366–367.