Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas Ambulance 1920
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This archived photograph of a Wellington, Kansas ambulance was taken in 1920. That was the same year that ancestor Edith Glendora Pancake Watrous was transported by ambulance from the Sanitarium at Geuda Springs where she had been trying to get well, to St. Luke’s Hospital in Wellington where she died. The road from Wellington to Geuda Springs is a drive of 30 minutes today. In 1920, with less improved roads, it would have been a difficult ride for someone who was ill and dying. Wellington was a small town in 1920. This was likely the only ambulance which was operated in the town.