At 9:30 o'clock this morning, at the southeast corner of Spring and Washington streets, John H. Aston fell dead of heart disease. . . John H. Aston was born at Shanty Spring, in the northeastern suburb of the city, on the 15th of August, 1814. His parents were Richard and Mary Carson Aston, pioneers of this part of the state. The birth of deceased occurred three months previous to the first sale of lots made at New Albany, and he was therefore the first white child born within the present limits of the city. . . He was for a number of years an engineer on boats running in the Mobile trade, and was in that trade when the war broke out, remaining in the South until the war closed, when he returned to New Albany, where he continued to reside until his death this morning. . . When a boy he learned the printing business and worked upon the first newspaper published at New Albany, printed by Ebenezer Patrick, in 1820-21, but the name of which is in uncertainty. He also worked on the Microscope, published here in 1824, by Dr. T. H. Roberts. . . John H. Aston introduced into Lodge No. 10 of this city a resolution for the institution of a degree in Odd Fellowship for the wives and daughters of Odd Fellows . . .and out of this came the Degree of Rebekah. - New Albany Daily Ledger 03 Oct 1882
At 9:30 o'clock this morning, at the southeast corner of Spring and Washington streets, John H. Aston fell dead of heart disease. . . John H. Aston was born at Shanty Spring, in the northeastern suburb of the city, on the 15th of August, 1814. His parents were Richard and Mary Carson Aston, pioneers of this part of the state. The birth of deceased occurred three months previous to the first sale of lots made at New Albany, and he was therefore the first white child born within the present limits of the city. . . He was for a number of years an engineer on boats running in the Mobile trade, and was in that trade when the war broke out, remaining in the South until the war closed, when he returned to New Albany, where he continued to reside until his death this morning. . . When a boy he learned the printing business and worked upon the first newspaper published at New Albany, printed by Ebenezer Patrick, in 1820-21, but the name of which is in uncertainty. He also worked on the Microscope, published here in 1824, by Dr. T. H. Roberts. . . John H. Aston introduced into Lodge No. 10 of this city a resolution for the institution of a degree in Odd Fellowship for the wives and daughters of Odd Fellows . . .and out of this came the Degree of Rebekah. - New Albany Daily Ledger 03 Oct 1882
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