{"id":1347,"date":"2020-03-29T14:13:52","date_gmt":"2020-03-29T14:13:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/granburydepot.org\/newsite\/?p=1347"},"modified":"2023-07-07T02:07:06","modified_gmt":"2023-07-07T02:07:06","slug":"andy-aston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/granburydepot.org\/newsite\/biography\/andy-aston\/","title":{"rendered":"ANDY ASTON"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">&nbsp;<strong>From &#8220;Hood County 2000: Men Who Made Hood County&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\"><strong>Hood County News &#8211; January 1, 2000<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Andy Aston was the son of John Aston who came to Hood County when Andy was just two years old.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Aston owned and operated the Aston-Landers saloon on the square with his partner, G.W. Landers. When local voters approved prohibition in 1902, Aston sold every drop of liquor in the saloon; taking in over $100 the night before prohibition took effect. Aston converted his closed saloon into a harness and buggy shop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td>Andy C. Aston was born October 8, 1857 and died August 19, 1917. He was buried in the Mt. Pleasant Cemetery in Hood County, Texas.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a9 2000 Hood County News and HCN Online Services<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">\u00a0~ Web Page by Jo Ann Hopper ~<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;From &#8220;Hood County 2000: Men Who Made Hood County&#8221; Hood County News &#8211; January 1, 2000 Andy Aston was the son of John Aston who came to Hood County when Andy was just two years old. Aston owned and operated &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/granburydepot.org\/newsite\/biography\/andy-aston\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/granburydepot.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/granburydepot.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/granburydepot.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/granburydepot.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/granburydepot.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1347"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/granburydepot.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5403,"href":"http:\/\/granburydepot.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1347\/revisions\/5403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/granburydepot.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/granburydepot.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/granburydepot.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}