Alfred A. Aden Biography- Walker County, TX

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Alfred A. Aden -1854 Member of Lodge

Born in 1824 in Benton County, Tennessee, A.A. Aden came to Texas as a 
school teacher prior to 1850. The following year he married Mary Susan 
Cochran, daughter of Wm. James Brown and Elenor B. Howie Cochran of 
Coldsprings. After Mary's death, he married Rebecca Tanner in Walker 
County. Teaching first at Swartwout in 1850, Mr. Aden's salary depended 
on the number of students who were able to pay the 10 cent per day 
charged each child. After the State appropriated funds to pay for the 
indigent children in about 1856, Mr. Aden still found it necessary to 
supplement his income with surveying.
Elected as the first surveyor of the new county of San Jacinto, Mr. 
Aden did not qualify probably because of the new boundaries.
At his death in 1912, he was buried in the Shockley Chapel Cemetery, 
Walker County, near Oakhurst.