Ellen (Nellie) Susannah Colebrook Rooks Taylor

31 May 1848 — 2 April 1910

1 Born at Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England; daughter of Marie Purser and Charles Colebrook. 2 Immigrated to the United States aboard the Henry Ware, 1849. 3 Settled in the Salt Lake Valley, circa 1851. 4 Joined the Deseret Dramatic Club at age sixteen at the request of Brigham Young. 5 Married first Charles Rooks; one child. Later divorced. 6 Married second George H. Taylor as a plural wife; one child. 7 Active in the woman suffrage movement; served as vice president and president of the Salt Lake County Woman Suffrage Association. 8 Served as president of the Salt Lake City Fourteenth Ward Young Ladies’ Mutual Improvement Association (Y.L.M.I.A.); served as counselor and president of the Salt Lake Stake Y.L.M.I.A., 1898–1904. 9 Served on the Y.L.M.I.A. general board, 1904–1910. 10 Died at Salt Lake City. 11 (See Document 4.15)

Footnotes

  1. [1] Utah Department of Health, death certificates 1904–1961, series 81448, file no. 450/460 (1910), Ellen Taylor; Office of Vital Records and Statistics, Salt Lake City, UT. Family records state Colebrook’s birthdate as May 30, 1847, while her death certificate and other accounts list the 1848 date. A christening date is recorded as July 1847. (“England Births and Christenings, 1538–1975,” index,  FamilySearch  [https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/J32F-8PX, accessed Oct. 29, 2014], Ellen Susannah Colebrook, July 9, 1847; citing Kidderminster, Worcester, England, reference item 5; FHL microfilm 1040244.)

  2. [2] Utah death certificate, file no. 450/460. “Ancestral File,” database, FamilySearch (http://www.familysearch.org, accessed Aug. 2014), Ellen Susannah Colebrook (1GNF-87).

  3. [3] “Mormon Migration,” database, 1840–1932, Mormon Migration (http://mormonmigration.lib.byu.edu, accessed Oct. 2014), Hellen Colbrook; extracted from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Mormon Immigration Index CD (2000).

  4. [4] “Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel,” database, 1847–1868, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel (http://history.lds.org/overlandtravels, accessed April 2014), Ellen Susannah Colebrook.

  5. [5] Susa Young Gates, History of the Young Ladies’ Mutual Improvement Association (Salt Lake City: Deseret News, 1911), 255.

  6. [6] “Our Picture Gallery: Nellie Colebrook,” Young Woman’s Journal 2, no. 7 (Apr. 1891): 294.

  7. [7] “Ancestral File,” database, Ellen Susannah Colebrook and George Hamilton Taylor (1GFV-28). Gates, History of the YLMIA, 254–255.

  8. [8] “The Ladies Mass Meeting,” Woman’s Exponent 14, no. 19 (Mar. 1, 1886): 148. “Salt Lake Co. W.S.A.,” Woman’s Exponent 20, no. 11 (Dec. 1, 1891): 86. “Annual Convention of the W.S.A. of the Salt Lake Co.,” Woman’s Exponent 22, no. 9 (Dec. 1, 1893): 66.

  9. [9] “Tribute to Nellie Colebrook Taylor,” Young Woman’s Journal 21, no. 6 (June 1910): 296. Gates, History of the YLMIA , 255.

  10. [10] “Death of Mrs. Taylor,” Deseret Evening News, Apr. 4, 1910, 2.

  11. [11] Utah death certificate, file no. 450/460.