Athens Weekly Review
Thursday May 21, 1931

Aged Lady Is Fatally Injured By Motor
Mrs. L. A. Campbell, age 71, residing in West Athens, was fatally injured Tuesday morning when struck by a south bound motor car on the Cotton Belt route. The accident occured shortly after 8:00 o'clock about a quarter of a mile west of the Grammer school underpass at a pedestrian crossing. The aged lady received a fractured skull and her arm was badly managled. She was also injured internally died at 6:00 o'clock Wednesday morning.
The driver of the motor car did not see Mrs. Campbell and officers were unable to say whether she was struck by the motor car or a north bound train. The motor man stopped about a half mile below the accident to inform a section gang that he thought he saw someone lying by the track and to investigate. P. B. Whitehead, extra gang foreman and several of his men went back to make the investigation. He informed Mrs. Tapscott and Mrs. Rogers, residing near the scene of the accident and they went with him to investigate. Mrs. Tapscott reported that they found Mrs. Campbell lying face downard in the ditch beside the track. She was bleeding profusely and was unconscious. Pysicians were hurriedly summoned and she was removed to the office of Dr. Hodge where her wounds were given attention.
Not certain as to whether Mrs. Campbell was struck by the motor car or a north bound train Sheriff Baker phoned the police department at Waco to inspect the front of the motor car for traces of blood. Officers there reported that it had been raining steadily for two hours and it was doubtful if blood stains could be found on the car.
Mrs. Rogers, who lives near the scene of the accident reported that she saw Mrs. Campbell passing shortly before the accident occurred. She was evidently struck by the motor car as another train could not have had tme to pass before the motor reached that point.
Roy Campbell, son of the injured woman, stated that his mother was on her way to town. The crossing is one used only by pedestrians and the people  of the west end use it because it is a nearer route to town. Vehicles formerly used the crossing but it was abandoned when the road bed was raised.
Funeral services will be held at the family home in West Athens at 4:00 o'clock this afternoon by Rev. C. W. Young. Burial will be at the city cemetery.
Mrs. Campbell was born in Henderson county January 20, 1860 and had resided in the county all her life. She was a member of the Baptist Church, having joined that denomination early in life.
Besides her husband she is survived by two sons, Roy and Jim of Athens, four daughters, Mrs. W. V. Cumbie and Mrs. Lula Hall of Athens, Mrs. H. B. King of Orange and Mrs. C. C. Ballard of Tyler.