Hi...I just came across this post..I havent looked into this Nicholson/Payne site since before Christmas...
Thomas & Susannah Nicholson, daughters married the Payne brothers, and their sister Harriett Payne Bramlett married Thomas Nicholson..Thomas and Harriett is in the 1880 Gilmer co ..Census..with some of his children, and hers..(and one of her sons, a Bramlett....
Thomas & Susanna' s son John Henry Nicholson Sr..and Martha Jane Bridges (his wife) was my g grandparents...I have some cousins who has this info..and gave it to my brother and myself...John Henry , Susan Annie, and Andrew Jackson Nicholson...the siblings to the two Nicholson-Payne sisters....Email if you like...Barbara