LAMPTON, Benjamin F. “Ben”
Date of death: 9 Nov 1891
Source: The Franklin Republican, Friday, November 13, 1891
BENJAMIN F. LAMPTON.
Benjamin F. Lampton died at his home, 530 Jefferson Avenue, Indianapolis, on Monday, November 9, 1891, after a brief illness with typhoid fever, aged about fifty years. Deceased was formerly a resident of Whiteland and was well known and respected by all who knew him in that locality. He was a brother-in-law of Frank Dickson, of Whiteland, and E. M. Hardy, of Janesville, Wis. Brief funeral services were held at the Clifford Avenue church on Tuesday afternoon, after which the remains were taken to Jeffersonville for burial. He left a wife to mourn her loss. He was a member of the Methodist church and died happy in the belief of a sweet eternity.
The Franklin Democrat, Friday, November 13, 1891,
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Ben Lampton, a former resident of Whiteland and a brother-in-law of Frank Dickson of that place, died at his home in Indianapolis last Sunday. The funeral occurred in that city Monday.
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Note: The Marion County Indiana WPA Death Index, 1882–1920, referencing Book H-4, page 130, records that B. F. Lampton, a forty-nine-year-old white male died 9 Nov 1891 in Indianapolis.
Submitted by Mark McCrady, Cathea Curry and Lois Johnson