In early 2017, David Rose traveled to Lone Mountain, and sent the board quite a number of pictures of problems around the house. The most serious problem was leaks in upstairs walls and ceilings in the areas of the chimneys. The advice we received when we replaced the roof in 2013 was that it made [read more…]
Club Payne Member Benefits
All descendants of Byrd and A Payne by blood or legal adoption may use the Lone Mountain House and are eligible to join Club Payne. It is only by joining Club Payne however, that one can hold office and/or have a voice in the affairs of the LMH. It is also the only way to [read more…]
2017 Club Payne Membership Drive Underway
Most all of the adult Byrd and A Payne descendants should, by now, have received a 2017 Membership Application and Pledge Form in the mail. Club Payne is the only source of funding for the Lone Mountain House and raising funds has gotten harder over the years. You can join Club Payne for as little [read more…]
What is TAG?
Though no one associated with the LMH would ever want it to be sold, the Tennessee Code requires Club Payne to have a formula for Dissolution Rights. In short, a way of dividing up the money in the event the property ever has to be sold. Our new Bylaws call for calculating these rights according [read more…]
2017 Club Payne Bylaw Revision
In 1965, our parents and grandparents, the children of Byrd and A Payne, formed the Payne Company to own and maintain the family homestead at Lone Mountain. In 2009, the Payne Company formed Club Payne to accomplish that task among a growing and widely dispersed Payne Family. In early 2017 the 2009 Club Payne Bylaws [read more…]
2016 Report
House Report Annie Rose had the walls and ceiling dry walled in the small upstairs bedroom. As a gift in honor of Annie’s 50th Birthday, Amy Potts and her children Evan Lacke, Laura Torres, and Anna Lacke, had the electric updated in that room and had a new window air conditioner installed. Three of four [read more…]