Jeannetta Cobabe

Jeannetta was the daughter of James and Mary Ann Bennett (Kay) Burrup and was born a few months after her parents and older sister had returned from an LDS colonizing mission in Carson Valley (then Utah, now Nevada). The colonists were recalled by Brigham Young at news that Johnston's Army was headed to Utah. Jeannetta's grandparents, William and Mary Twinberrow Wattis Bennett Kay, and their family returned at the same time. After returning to Utah, the Kays and Burrups settled in West Weber (west of Ogden).

Jeannetta's mother died when she was five years old and was buried in the Kay family plot in the Ogden City Cemetery. Around 1864 The Kays and Burrups left rural West Weber and moved into Ogden. Jeannetta's family home was located mid-block on the east side of Washington Boulevard between what is now 25th and 26th streets. Her father remarried in 1867 to Mary Cocker Clegg, a fellow English LDS convert who had a son, William, by a previous marriage.

Jeannetta was first married to fellow Ogdenite Samuel Henry Delamater in 1879. The Delamater's moved to the area near Oxford, Idaho. However, after the birth of the couple's child, James Burrup Delamater, in 1880, Samuel Henry deserted the family. Jeannetta petitioned for and received a divorce from Samuel Henry in 1881 in Ogden.

The information in the following paragraph was supplied by Pat Seymour Jones: "Samuel Henry Delamater married a second time to Berthena Melissa Phillips of Coalville, Summit County, Utah. After a few years they moved to California where his parents were and lived in Oleta, Amador County, California, and in Sacramento. This union produced seven children. After Berthena died Samuel stayed for awhile and then left. He ended up in Washington and married a woman from Oregon. They had no children. Samuel Henry died in Washington state".

In May 1888 Jeannetta remarried. Her second husband was widower Ferdinand "Fred" William Cobabe. He was a widower at the time of the marriage; his first wife was Jane Harbertson. Jeannetta died on 15 March 1893, five years to the day after her father. Strangely, Ferdinand Cobabe was killed by a falling tree limb exactly two years after Jeannetta.

Jeannetta's name is spelled in a variety of ways. In legal papers that she signed regarding her divorce and the probate papers of her father, she spelled her name as either Jeanetta or Jeannetta. The headstone spells her name using another variant.

Jeannetta's name seems to have been a memorial to her grandparent Kays' close friend, Jenetta Richards, wife of LDS Apostle Willard Richards, who died and was buried in Nauvoo, Illinois. The Kays were sealed in LDS rites to Willard and Jenetta Richards in Nauvoo. The Kays named one of their daughters Jenetta in honor of Jenetta Richards. That Jenetta (Jenetta Kay Nelson Wright Shurtliff) was Jeannetta Burrup Delamater Cobabe's aunt.

Parents:

James Burrup (1831 - 1888)

Mary Ann Bennett (Kay) Burrup (1837 - 1863)

Spouse:

Ferdinand William Cobabe (1856 - 1895)

Maintained by: Jay Greaves Burrup

Originally Created by: Ray Memmott (inactive)

Record added: Apr 21, 2011

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