St. Luke’s Hospital – Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas 1910
2010
This is St. Luke’s Hospital in Wellington, Kansas. This photograph was taken in 1910. In 1920 direct ancestor Edith Glendora Pancake Watrous died here. For the week prior to her death, she had been under the care of a nurse in the nearby town called Geuda Springs. The medicinal properties of the springs in the town were thought to be helpful in curing an assortment of ills. Glendora’s sister Camilla and Camilla’s daughter Katherine were on a vacation to Yellowstone Park when they received the news that Glendora had taken a turn for the worse. Camilla Elliott and Katharine did not continue from Salt Lake City to Yellowstone, but returned to Wellington, Kansas. Glendora died before their return. The hospital was razed many years later and a new medical facility built in its place.