Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 91, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 April 1918 — MRS. A. B. CRAMPTON, DELPHI, PASSES AWAY [ARTICLE]

MRS. A. B. CRAMPTON, DELPHI, PASSES AWAY

Louisa Alford Crampton, wife of Governor A. B. Crampton; of the Marion Military home, died Tuesday evening, after an illness of three weeks with heart trouble. Mrs. Crampton was born in Pennsylvania in 1844, the daughter of Rev. and Mrs. L. A. Alford. Her father later entered the publishing business in Logansport, where the daughter met and married Mr. Crampton. Besides the husband, three children survive: Capt. C. C. Crampton, now, in the medical corps at Camp Devens, Mass; Mrs. Love Caulkins, of Marion; and Mrs. Henry B. Wilson, who is editor of the Carrol County Citizen-Times, of Delphi. Three grandchildren also survive. She was a member of the Delphi Baptist church, Charles Caroll chapter of the D. A. R., Order of the Eastern Star, Pythian Sisters and Lincoln circle, and Ladies of the G. A. R.