No source noted, penciled date of April 8, 1928, from an unidentified scrapbook of clippings titled COLLECTION OF LOCAL MONROE COUNTY OBITS donated to the Monroe County History Center, Bloomington, Indiana. RETURNING HOME Mrs. Mary Lampkins, Coming from Hospital in an Auto Coming home from a hospital in Indianapolis via an auto with her children, and apparently improving nicely, Mrs. Mary Lampkins grew suddenly weaker and died in her daughter's arms by the roadside near Martinsville late yesterday evening. The body was brought in an ambulance to the home on West Howe Street in this city. Mrs. Lampkins went to St. Vincent Hospital about three weeks ago where she underwent an operation for tumor, all the time since seeming to recover nicely. She was anxious to get home, and the attendants at the hospital thought she was quite strong enough. So an auto trip was planned in which were the daughter, Miss Chrissie, and son, Ray, and Clarence Alexander. Some distance from Indianapolis it was noticed that Mrs. Lampkins was becoming quite faint, and the McDaniels ambulance was phoned to come from there and meet them on the way. Mrs. Lampkins grew quite sick, but it was thought best to go on to join the fast approaching ambulance, when a short distance from Martinsville her condition became serious. Upon the arrival of the ambulance, Mr. Lampkins was placed on a cot when suddenly she died in her daughter's arms. The body was then placed in the ambulance and brought to the home. Mrs. Lampkins was a faithful member of the Howe Street Mission Church and the following daughters mourn-Mrs. N. C. Adams of Prue, Okla, and Misses Chrissie and Ruth who are at home, also four sons-Ray and Clarence of this city; Elbert Lampkins of Prue, Okla., and Noble who is in a U. S. Army training camp in New Jersey. The husband was Thomas Lampkins who has been dead about 12 years. Funeral from Howe Street Mission Church Sunday at 10 o'clock in charge of Rev. Joseph Campbell and interment in the Lampkins Cemetery east of the city. Pallbearers: Thomas Elger, Frank Lampkins, Oscar, Huntington, (Illegible) Stroud, Samuel Kerr and (Illegible) Terrill.