Marietta Sherwood, the daughter of William and Esther Sherwood of Southport, Connecticut, was born circa 1827 and graduated from Mount Holyoke Female Seminary in 1847. In 1849 she married Daniel D. Frost, a minister who served at the Congregational Church in Redding, Connecticut from 1844-1856 when the Frosts moved to West Stockbridge, Massachusetts. The Frosts had five children. Marietta died in Wabasha, Minnesota in 1863.