A PIONEER PRINTER
Edward W. Sinex
Dies at His Home on West Main Street.
Came to the Ledger Office in 1851 to
Learn Type Setting.

Thursday Evening,
November 19, 1903
New Albany, Indiana Ledger

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.