Mary Jane Frost

     Mary Jane Frost was born on 5 November 1868 at Dorset, Bennington Co, Vermont; Her death certificate indicates her birthyear was 1868, just as her marriage certificate did with Nathan Salls. Her gravestone says 1863.^1,3,2 She was the daughter of John Frost and Angeline Tifft.² Mary Jane Frost married Napolean Nathan Salls, son of Isaac Salls Jr. and Mary Melissa Derick, on 15 August 1884 at Manchester, Bennington Co, Vermont; Nathan Salls was aged 33 and a traveling salesman. He was a resident of Manchester, Vermont. Mary was 16.² Mary Jane Frost and Napolean Nathan Salls were divorced on 8 June 1906 at Vermont; Mary Jane was the libelant in the case. The cause was desertion.⁴ Mary Jane Frost married Allen Lucious Hosley, son of David Harley and Emily Slade, on 11 March 1908 at Vermont; Allen was aged 51 at the time of marriage, and Mary Jane was 39, and it was her second marriage. She used her maiden name on the certificate.⁵ Mary Jane Frost died on 29 September 1929 at Manchester, Bennington Co, Vermont, at age 60; She died from cancer of the uterus.
Included in her estate listed in probate, there was over $5000 "from Est. of John Stone". Her surviving family included no children, just her husband, sister Emily L. Waite, brother George W. Frost, and two neices, children of her deceased sister, Lilla Waite.^1,3,6 She was buried at Factory Point Cemetery, Manchester, Bennington Co, Vermont; There is a John Stone, presumably son of Nathan Salls, buried at Factory Point Cemetery with Mary Jane.³