I493: Jeanette COCKRILL (20 Apr 1855

Jeanette COCKRILL

20 Apr 1855 - 3 Mar 1938

BIRTH: 20 Apr 1855, Santa Rosa, Sonoma Co., CA
DEATH: 3 Mar 1938, Salinas, Monterey Co., CA

Father: Henry Harrison COCKRILL
Mother: Ruhamy DOYLE

Family 1 : Jesse BARDIN

MARRIAGE: 28 Jan 1873, Salinas, Monterey Co., CA

 
                                                 _William COCKRILL _+
                            _Anderson COCKRILL _|
                           |                    |_Frances JONES ____
 _Henry Harrison COCKRILL _|
|                          |                     _Joseph VENABLE ___
|                          |_Rebecca VENABLE ___|
|                                               |_Lucy DAVENPORT ___
|
|--Jeanette COCKRILL 
|
|                                                ___________________
|                           ____________________|
|                          |                    |___________________
|_Ruhamy DOYLE ____________|
                           |                     ___________________
                           |____________________|
                                                |___________________

Notes:

Extracted from a Wendt Family photo

Known as Aunt Nett by her many nieces and nephews.
Also listed as Annette Jeanette in some of Jeanne Miller's documents, however the source for this is not known.
Name on "Chinatown" Deed as "Genette Bardin".
Enumerated as Jenetta Cockrill, a. 4, bp. Nevada Territory in the 1860 Census listing for her mother.
On the back of the 50th Anniversary picture of Amanda (Cockrill) Fulkerson with her three sisters in my family's collection, she is identified as Aunt Nett White, however, it is not known where the unknown labeler came up with the name White.
She is also the "Mrs. Jesse Bardin" of the list, "Information Concerning the Family of Mrs. Jesse Bardin as told to Winifred Reidmiller by Nancy Mattocks."

Part of a clipping (obtained from Rebecca Cockrill and John MacKenzie) from Salinas Index Journal, Saturday, February 23, 1935:

	AGED PIONEER HERE RECALLS EXCITING ERA
	____
	Day When First Train Reached This City Was Lively One.
	(Editor's Note: Herewith is presented another engrossing chapter in the Index-Journal's series of articles on pioneers and colorful personalities of this district. Here you will read of the day when the first trains came puffing and painting into Salinas, with almost disastrous results and of other interesting episodes of a bygone area. Another "old-timer" article will appear in an early issue.)
	BY ALLAN STEWART
	November 7, 1872, the day the first train was to come into Salinas, was an exciting one, and none in the villiage was any more excited than pretty Miss Jennette Cockrill, 16 years of age. From her post at a window of the Diamond hotel, located where Johnson's Garage now stands, Miss Cockrill could see the shouting, jostling crowd that was gathered at the improvised railroad station. Every citizen who could leave his work, and many who should not have done so but did, were there to hail a red-letter occasion for the struggling town of sloughs and shoulder-high mustard patches. The auspiciousness of the occasion made little impression upon Miss Cockrill on that November day, but she was interested in determining if any of the arrivals on the train were handsome-appearing men, she declared today while telling the story. Miss Cockrill of 1872 is now Mrs. Jesse Bardin of 340 Cayuga street, Salinas. Going on to 79 years of age, she recalls vividly the unscheduled fireworks that accompanied the arrival of Salinas' first train.
	SALINAS AS END OF LINE
	The railroad line extended from San Francisco to Salinas only. Later the line was to be completed through to Los Angeles. The first train was made up of a few cattle cars with a single passenger coach bringing up the rear. The locomotive's whistle warned the crowd of the train's approach. Soon smoke could be seen above the horizon, then the locomotive came into view. The crowd yelled, and the engineer waved his hand as he inched the trottle open a little wider. Then something went wrong. The engineer couldn't stop the locomotive. Instead of the train drawing to a stop in front of the crowd, which was all set for some extra-special ceremonies, it continued past, crashed trough a bumper at the end of the line and began making its own tracks for Los Angeles. The engineer broke his leg Mrs. Bardin declared, and a large number of the horses and cattle on the cars were destroyed. Altogether, it wasn't a very happy inaugural for the first train to arrive in Salinas. Two days later the arrival of the first passenger train here made the citizenry forget the near-tragedy of November 7. Mrs. Bardin, one of the oldest pioneers in Salinas, was not born here, but she was lived practically her entire life in Salinas and the Blanco district. She is the mother of five children, grandmother of 12, and she has five great-grandchildren. She tells of an incident that few in Salinas know, the occasion when the Blanco schoolhouse floated away during a flood and was found in the Moro Cojo slough on the other side of Castroville.
	RETRIVE BUILDING
	This event occurred in 1862, Mrs. Bardin believes. The school board met in an unusual session and decided to retrieve the building. This was done, and it reopened as a spot near the Blanco store for many years after. Many scores of Salin... [rest of clipping missing]


Obituary clipping (obtained from Rebecca Cockrill and John MacKenzie) from unknown newspaper:

	Mrs. Bardin, Pioneer Of Salinas, Dies
	____
	Funeral Services To Be Held Here Saturday Morning .____
	Sixty-eight years of continuous residence in Salinas -- while a former country village grew to a busy city -- were ended early Thursday evening for Mrs. Jeanette Cockrill Bardin, 81, who died at her home, 340 Cayuga street, following a lingering illness. Mrs. Bardin, daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Harrison Cockrill, was born in Santa Rosa on April 20, 1856. She came to Salinas when a girl, and in 1872 she married the late Mr. Jesse Bardin, who preceded her in death on August 14, 1929. Mr. and Mrs. Bardin took a prominent part in the early life of the community, Mr. Bardin being one of the best-known pioneer farmers and stock-raisers of the Salinas valley. It was not until 1914 that he retired from active business life, and since that time the family home has been maintained at 340 Cayuga street. Mrs. Bardin leaves one son, Mr. J. A. Bardin of Salinas, and three daughters, Mrs. Nellie Breese and Mrs. Winnifred Reidmiller of Salinas and Mrs. Helen J. Schaeffle of San Francisco. She was the mother of the late Mrs. Annie L. Hobart. Surviving grandchildren are Police Chief Marcel A. Lapierre, Mr. Cecil B. Breese, Mr. Dan G. Bardin, Mr. Roy E. Bardin, Misses Nancy Ann Bardin, Jeanette Bardin, Jodine Bardin and Gloria Bardin, all of Salinas; Mr. Jesse B. Lapierre of San Jose, Mrs. Helen M. Miles of Danville, Mrs. Lois Moncur of San Francisco, Miss Jane Bardin and Dr. Lester E. Breese of Oakland. Also surviving are five great grandchildren. Funeral services for Mrs. Bardin will be conducted at 10 o'clock Saturday morning from the Salinas Funeral parlors, followed by internment in the I.O.O.F. cemetery.

This page created on 02/05/01 16:08. Updated 01/20/10 15:55.