Edward W. Sinex

Edward W. Sinex, who commenced to learn the printing
business in the LEDGER office in the spring of 1851,
died this - Thursday -  morning, November 20, at his
home, No. 143 West Main street, of apoplexy, from
which he had been a sufferer for several years.

Mr. Sinex was born and reared in New Albany, and was
the son of the late John Sinex, who served as Coroner of
Floyd County for a number of terms during the fifties and
sixties.  He was employed by the LEDGER office for over
forty years, and for several years was a compositor in the office
of the New Albany Tribune.

Edward W. Sinex was an active member of the old volunteer fire
department for many years, and also served in the paid department
for some time.  He was an Odd Fellow, being a member of New
Albany Lodge No. 83 for many years, joining the order while a
young man.  He was also a member of New Albany Typographical
Union, being one of the oldest members of the Union.

Mr. Sinex was seventy-two years old, and his wife, two sons and a
daughter survive him.  His children are Mrs. Wilbert J. Patton,
policeman Harry Sinex and Edward J. Sinex, a pressman.

Edward W. Sinex was an upright and honest man.  He was
conscientious in all he did or said, and a man of excellent
morals.  Kindly of heart, resolute in opinion, industrious in habit,
he lived a life that was clean and pure.  His death leaves but one
survivor of the old LEDGER force of the early fifties.  Mr. C. W.
Cottom, who came to the LEDGER on the 10th day of August,
1850, and is its present editor.  Dear old "Neddy", with the writer
hereof, had seen the LEDGER grow from the small estate of its
earlier years into one of the great newspaper, job printing, book
binding, blank book making and paper box manufacturing
establishments of Indiana.

And now he has passed over the river to rest after his many years
of faithful toil.  Good-by old companion of many years and
Paradisial reward grander and more glorious than any that can
come in life.

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Copyright© by Antoinette, February 27, 1999