EIGHTH GENERATION

2105. James Frost Thorne was born on 22 Nov 1821 in Mattintuck, Long Island, NY. He died on 12 Dec 1876 in New York, NY.

He was married to Susannah Wroe Edwards (daughter of Hayden Edwards and Susan Bell) in 1856. Susannah Wroe Edwards was born in 1799 in Kentucky. She died on 11 Dec 1891 in Tyler, TX. She is the Widow of His Uncle Frost Thorne (His Dad's little Brother)

Susannah Wroe Edwards was born in 1799, in Stafford County, Virginia, to the land Empressario Hayden Edwards and his wife Susannah Bell Edwards. When she married Frost Thorne, in 1825, it was said that she was one of the 5 single white women in Nacadoches.

According to letters written by the Thorne's attorney, Charles Starr, Susannah traveled extensively with her children, Frost II and Mary Marcellite, both back east and in Europe. In 1856, after she had been widowed 2 years and at the age of 56, she married James Frost Thorn who was a nephew of Frost Thorne. James Thorne's father Hallet, and Frost Thorne were brothers. Not much is known about James and how he came to Texas, but it is possible that he met Susannah during her travels back east and came to Texas after Frost died, perhaps to help in settling the Frost Thorne Estate.

Not many years later, the couple moved back to New York, and Susannah gave the Frost Thorne home in Nacodoches to her sister, Sarah Davenport. Mrs. Davenport, widowed of one of the founders of Bar & Davenport, the trading firm which originally brought Frost Thorne to Texas, married Nacodoches resident William Hart and they converted the large home into the "Hart Hotel". The home was located at the site of what is today the Mize Department Store in Nacodoches. HISTORICAL NACODOCHES, by noted Texas historian R. B. Blake incorrectly states that Susannah Thorne married William Hart.

On 12 January, 1876, Susannah's husband, James F. Thorn, died. Tragically, on July 20, the same year, an accident claimed the lives of both her son, Frost Thorne II, and her daughter Marcellite Thorne Garner, as well as her son-in-law and two other men. They were drowned when the yacht MOHAWK, owned by her son-in-law, William T. Garner, sank on it's maiden voyage during a squall in New York Harbor.

It is not clear whether Susannah returned to Texas at that time or remained in New York, but she eventually returned to Texas with her grandson, Frost Thorn III, and lived in Tyler until her death in 1891 at the age of 92 years. A certified copy of her will appears in Volume 46, page 337 of the Deed Records of Rusk County, TX. Her 2nd husband was her Nephew-in-Law. Son James of Hallet Thorne.

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She married (1st) Frost Thorne. After he died, she married James Frost Thorne, the nephew of her first husband. James Frost Thorne's father, Hallet Thorne, and Susannah's first husband Frost Thorne were brothers.