Talk:Daniel E. Frost

more work needed
I don't have time to locate Frost's Union army photo (which should exist and be copyright free because of its age and inclusion in several web articles cited) but think its inclusion would improve this article.

I also don't have time to trace Frost's ancestry since the published genealogy I cited I believe messed up a few generations per comparison with 1850/1860/1870 census records. Another genealogy at http://haygenealogy.com/hay/sources/Frost/frostnotes.html mentions lots of William Frosts, although I note that it does mention one Eben, and Scott Patchen's Shenandoah Summer book names the uncaring relative Daniel Frost wanted at his deathbed as Eben Frost. Of course, figuring out whether a relative betrayed Frost or the unit in retaliation for their involvement in Hunter's raid, etc. would be original research and outside Wikipedia policies. :(.

In any event, the Wheeling Intelligencer article mentions Frost's funeral train as stopping at the ancestral home, "Middle Farm". The name seems common. There is a "Middle Farm Road" in Falling Waters, West Virginia, which is not close to either Winchester or Ravenswood at all, but in Berkeley County off a historic road between Hagerstown, Maryland and Martinsburg, WV and a very snakey section of the Potomac river.

Although not mentioned in either genealogy, Frost's father may be related to the founder of Frostburg, Maryland. St. Clairsville, Ohio where Daniel Frost was born is further west along the National Road (after Wheeling), and Daniel Frost's wife and children continued the family's westward journey after his death, tho closer to rivers than the National Road. For what its worth, apparently Josiah Frost laid out Frostburg on the National Road (though his son Mesach is credited with its foundation and his grandson also Mesach guided it in the late 19th century). Unfortunately, the findagraves are very incomplete and wikipedia's Frostburg article skips the Civil War (and pretty much everything between the town's founding and the founding of Frostburg State College). The library I thought had books on early Western Maryland turned out to have a book about Montgomery and Frederick Counties (much closer to D.C. than Cumberland and Allegeny counties founded in the national road/railroad era).Jweaver28 (talk) 17:25, 20 August 2019 (UTC)