About Mary A. Aston
Lived 1836 – 1913 (aged 76–77). Mary A. Aston was an American nurse.
Mary A. Aston (c. 1836 – March 27, 1913) served as an army nurse during the American Civil War. After the war, she was active in several national and Philadelphia organizations supporting veterans' causes.
Early life Mary A. Aston was born in about 1836, in Pennsylvania.
Career Aston served in the Philadelphia Volunteer Corps of Army Nurses from 1862 to 1865. "My husband was sickly and unable to go to war and we decided that one of us at any rate should do something for our country," she explained many years later. She worked at the Citizens' Volunteer Hospital in Philadelphia, alongside surgeon R. S. Kenderdine. She became deaf after a cannon exploded close to her. She was a member of the Philadelphia Army Nurses' Association.
Personal life Aston's husband, Samuel Aston, died during the war, in August 1864.
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American army nurse
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Mary A. Aston was born in 1836 in Pennsylvania.
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Mary A. Aston died on 27 March 1913 in Philadelphia.
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Mary A. Aston was a nurse.
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