S. M. Aston
Decatur, Illinois
Sangamon Presbytery

[Source: Ministerial Directory, General Assembly Minutes of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1856, page 63]

The following are some of the Ministers who have died within the year past:

Rev. John M. Berry and Rev. S. M. Aston, of Illinois; Rev. Francis Johnson, of Kentucky; Rev. Jacob Lindley, of
Pennsylvania; Prof. Jno. G. Biddle, Rev. William Henry, and Rev. N. Lyon, of Tennessee; Rev. A. Buchanan, of
Arkansas; and Rev. E. W. Hall, of Indiana.

[Source: General Assembly Minutes of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1857, page 77]