Freestone County, Texas Obits Unknown newspaper - July 25, 1951 issue Mrs. Frances Payne, Blooming Grove, Dies CORSICANA, Texas, July 25. - Funeral was conducted at Blooming Grove for Mrs. Frances Modelia Payne, 83, who died at her home near Blooming Grove. Burial was at Kirvin, Freestone County. Surviving are her husband, Joe Payne of Blooming Grove; four daughter, Mrs. Will Boyd of Dallas, Mrs. Will Davis of Fairfield, Mrs. Victor Parker of Artesia, N.M., and Mrs. Connie Saunders of Blooming Grove; two sons, J. P. Pullin of Blooming Grove, J. T. Pullin of Fairfield; thirty grandchildren and fifty great-grandchildren and three great-great-grandchildren.