(October 31, 1846-March 6, 1909)

Harriet Lucina Hayward, the widow of the late Lorenzo L. Frost, died at the home of her son, Fredric W. Frost, at 175 Eighth Avenue, Borough of Brooklyn, New York City, upon Saturday, March 6th, 1909. She had been spending a portion of the winter visiting with her daughter, Miss Lorena M. Front, in Summit, N.J., and with her son at the above address, where she was taken sick with pneumonia upon the 22d day of February, 1909.

Mrs. Frost was born October 31st, 1846, in Alexandria N.H., and was descended from the sturdiest of New England ancestry. She was the youngest daughter of Jonas Reed and Marcia (Sleeper) Hayward.

Harriet L. Hayward was married upon October 31st, 1876, to Lorenzo L. Frost, who died on May 10, 1906. She was an ideal wife and mother. A woman of firm convictions and determined will power, although for many years of rather frail physique. She wielded a sweet, yet controlling influence over the lives of her husband and children. Her husband, Lorenzo L. Frost, was engaged all his life in the business of manufacturing paper, having descended from a family of paper manufacturers. He was part owner and manager in the Racquette River Paper Company at Potsdam, N.Y. and organizer and manager of the L. L. Frost Paper Company, at Norwood, N.Y. After destruction by fire this mill was rebuilt and sold to Northern N.Y. capitalists. At the time of his death, May 10, 1906, Mr. Frost was the president and manager of the Frost & Sons Paper Company at Napanoch, N.Y. During all these years of changing scenes and vicissitudes of life it was the influence and unflinching strength of purpose of the sweet spirited and noble woman that was his greatest inspiration and source of power. She was from early womanhood, and in every community where she resided a member of and an active worker in the Methodist Episcopal Church.

Mrs. Frost is survived by a son, Fredric Worthen Frost, a lawyer of New York City, a daughter, Lorena May Frost, who is director of a kindergarten in Summit, New Jersey, and a son, Luther Hayward Frost, manager of the Frost & Sons Paper Company at Napanoch, Ulster County, New York.

Prayers were held at the home of Mr. Fredric W. Frost and the funeral services were at the home in Napanoch, on March 10th, 1909, the Rev. Bradford P. Raymond, D. D., L. L. D. formerly president of Wesleyan University, officiating, assisted by the pastor of the local Methodist Episcopal Church, the Rev. Adonis G. Frear. The interment took place in the family plot in the Fantinekill cemetery, at Ellenville, N.Y.

(From the Friday, March 19, 1909 edition of the Potsdam Herald-Recorder, courtesy of the Northern New York Library Network @ news.nnyln.net).