A copy of Mary’s obit, no date or source noted, was included with the documents in Richard Aston’s file as a veteran of the War of 1812 available online at www.Fold3.com. In 1870, Mary Aston, age 84 and a native of Ireland, was among those enumerated in the household of John S. Livingstone (sic), age 63, in New Albany, Floyd County, Indiana. DEATH OF MRS. ASTON—ONE OF THE PIONEERS Mrs. Aston, one of the earliest settlers of New Albany, departed this life yesterday afternoon at 5 ½ o’clock at the residence of her son-in-law, Mr. John Livingston, on Lower Second Street between Main and Market. About three weeks ago she met with a slight accident by falling down and dislocating her hip, but it is thought that this did not materially affect her health or hasten her demise. She had been troubled with indigestion for some weeks past, which disease, together with old age, was the cause of her death. Mary Aston was born in Ireland, December 20th, 1786, and was consequently in the 85th year of her age. At the age of three years she crossed the Atlantic with her parents, John Carson and family, and settled in Kentucky six miles from the then Louisville Fort. There she resided enduring the fears and disadvantages of frontier life until the year 1800 when her father removed to Clark’s Grant, settling on this side of the mouth of Silver Creek. Here she lived when the place where New Albany now stands was a vast cane brake with nothing but an Indian trace running through it and which extended from the fort at Clarksville to Vincennes. At the mouth of the creek, Mr. Carson kept a ferry, and every white person or Indian traveling between the forts at Clarksville and Vincennes crossed at this ferry. On many occasions during the absence of her father, Mrs. Aston had charge of the ferry, and in her old age took delight in relating the many incidents that occurred in those early times. In the year 1807, February 26th, she united in marriage to Richard Aston, whom she survived 21 years. From the time she came into the territory of Indiana, she had been a constant resident of this county and city and was familiar with every important event connected with the settlements around the falls. She is said to have been the first white woman married in Clark’s Grant and doubtless bore the first white child born in this section. She was the mother of thirteen children, all of whom except Mr. John Aston and Mrs. John Livingston died while quite young. The two persons named still survive to mourn the loss of one who was a fond and loving mother. Reared from infancy to middle age on a Western frontier, as was Mrs. Aston, is certainly not very favorable circumstances to place a woman in and expect her to maintain the qualities of tenderness, docility and many other of the finer feelings so charming and attractive to man, yet Mrs. A. was ever regarded as a lady of high moral worth and true womanly graces. She was in many respects pre-eminent in these qualities and numbered hosts of true and devoted friends in this city and elsewhere. Mrs. Aston had been a consistent member of the First Presbyterian Church of this city since 1835. Her funeral took place from the residence of Mr. Livingston this afternoon at three o’clock.