Jane Elizabeth "Jennie" (Hoag) Cobleigh (1847-1902)

HOAG, COBLEIGH, BRIGGS

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 8/16/2014 at 17:59:31

From Nevada Representative January 1, 1902

Died, at her home in this city Thursday, December 26, 1901, Mrs. Jennie Hoag Cobleigh, aged 54 years, 10 months and 14 days.

Jennie Hoag Cobleigh was born at Eagle Harbor, New York, Feb. 12, 1847, and was the daughter of Edward S. and Jennie (Briggs) Hoag. The mother dying six moths later the babe was reared by her grand parents at Clinton, Michigan. At their death, when she was seventeen, she came to her father in Nevada, where she lived until her marriage to Charles H. Cobleigh in October, 1868. They kept house for short time in the Garrett home, but removed soon to Missouri Valley where they lived nearly thirteen years and where Mrs. Cobleigh formed many of the dearest friendships and associations of her life. Three children, Frank, Charles and Harriet were born there an the youngest, Adah, upon their farm eight miles from Onawa, whither they removed in the spring of 1881. Ten years later they sold the farm and after a short residence at Carroll, Nebraska, came to Nevada in 1893.

With pleasant anticipation of happiness they built the comfortable house which proved, to use Mrs. Cobleigh's own words, "such a house of agony." In less than six years four of that household have been carried thence to grave. After the death of Harriet, last April, Mrs. Cobleigh, accompanied by her daughter, Adah, went to reside temporarily with her son Charles at Orchard, Nebraska. Her health declined rapidly and a month ago she returned eager to be again in the old house. But her stay there was brief indeed. Friday, the 28th, her friends and neighbors gathered at the house, Rev. Sandford conducted a tender, appreciative service and then another grave was rounded in the family lot in the cemetery.

Mrs. Cobleigh was a woman whom to know was to esteem. Capable, possessing the mental gifts, faithful in the various relations of life, social and loving the helps to growth of mind and heart, the circle of her usefulness and of her friends was large, and the attachments severed by her death were strong. When the great sorrows of life fell upon her she bore them with fortitude, gave little sign of the breaking heart beneath the calm, quiet exterior, and strove to be pleasant and cheerful to the last. She was looking forward brightly to a Christmas day to be spent with her sister and invalid mother, when the summons came to the heavenly home. She passed on, and the words, "He giveth His beloved sleep," took on a deeper significance.