Napolean Nathan Salls

     Napolean Nathan Salls was born on 13 February 1848 at Noyan, Missisquoi Co, Quebec.¹ He was the son of Isaac Salls Jr. and Mary Melissa Derick. Napolean Nathan Salls was baptized on 9 December 1850 at Clarenceville, Missisquoi Co, Quebec.¹ He married Mary Jane Frost, daughter of John Frost and Angeline Tifft, 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 Napolean Nathan Salls married Olive Betsy Colvin circa 1886; It is a strong possibility they did not marry because he was still married to Mary Frost until she divorced him in 1906.³ Napolean Nathan Salls and Mary Jane Frost were divorced on 8 June 1906 at Vermont; Mary Jane was the libelant in the case. The cause was desertion and aldultery. She specified that Nathan had abandoned her on 15 Sep 1884 - which was just one month following their marriage. The Petition for Divorce mentions Nathan was formerly of Manchester, but now of parts unknown.^4,5 Napolean Nathan Salls died on 22 June 1925 at Beebe, Stanstead Co, Quebec, at age 77.⁶ He was buried at Marlington Cemetery, Stanstead, Stanstead Co, Quebec.⁶
     On 30 Dec 1884, Napolean, who was living in Manchester, went before notary, Elie-Simon Mazurette, to make his Will. He left all his properrty, real and personal, to his brother, John D. Salls, still a minor. However, this was before Napolean married Olive, so he may have done a retraction years later. It was rather strange that Napolean wrote a Will in Dec 1884, before he married. If Nathan and Napolean are the same, was he protecting his property from his bride of several months, Mary Frost?⁷ He appeared on the census of 17 April 1891 at Stanstead, Stanstead Co, Quebec; Napolean Salls, 43, Olive, 32, Harold, 5, Percy, 4, and Lucy, 1. Next family enumerated was that of his parents and brother, John. Napolean was listed as a dry goods peddler, and the family was Presbyterian.⁸ He witnessed the death of Isaac Salls Jr. on 2 March 1893 at Glines Corners, Stanstead Co, Quebec; Certified Extract from the Superior Court of Saint Francis, taken from the Register of Baptisms, Marriages and Burials for Stanstead Plain and Beebe Plain, 1893.⁹
Lovell's Directory of 1898 shows Nathan N. Salls was a "market gardener" in Lineboro, Quebec, right on the VT-Quebec border, just north of North Derby.¹⁰ Napolean Nathan Salls witnessed the will of Gilbert Scott on 1 August 1907 at Stanstead, Stanstead Co, Quebec.¹¹ Napolean Nathan Salls and Olive Betsy Colvin appeared on the census of 1921 at Stanstead, Stanstead Co, Quebec; Napolean Salls, 72 and Olive Betsy Salls, 53. The couple was said to then be Episcopalian.¹²