Other ties to Mary Fitzpatrick: Thelma, I am sending you copies of the pages from the Leavings book about the Dalton Fitzpatrick story and the Ellis story. There are interesting connections here, if you have not reviewed the stories before. If you have already considered these then please excuse my redundancy. There is a Granum news item in which Johnnie and Pearl Demaere, Bill DeMaere Dave Chugg and Edgar Chugg visited the Dalt Fitzpatrick family at the time of Mae Anders funeral. The DeMaeres and the Chuggs grew up together along with the Fitzpatrick family. The Fitzpatrick article tells how Dalt was raised by his grandmother in Gatineau. He came west on Threshing crews and “remembered that he had a cousin, Nellie Lang in Granum”. So he went west to visit her. As Nellie’s mother was Mary Fitzpatrick and as Dalt was a Fitzpatrick, Dalt’s father must have been Mary’s brother. Dalton married a DeMaere girl who was either sister or aunt of Johnnie and Billy DeMaere. So Aunt Pearl and Dalt Fitzpatrick married into the DeMaere family. This makes the second linkage between the Chugg family and the Fitzpatrick family – a generation earlier through marriage and then the next generation as brother and sister in laws. And to top it off. Dalton lived in the same community as his cousin Nellie Chugg Lang, as well. So Eb’s daughter and Elisha’s daughter were both connected to Dalt. Additionally the article points out that Dalt worked for awhile for Eb Chugg and also worked for Henry Lang, his cousin’s husband. And in the news article, Elisha’s sons, Edgar (my grandpa) and Dave are visiting members of the Fitzpatrick, Demaere, Chugg and Lang families. Now on to the Ellis story. Finally I have more tangible evidence that the Ellis – Chugg connection of Hull did exist, because the Ellis story documents how the Ellis were married in Ottawa. They sold their land and equipment (farmers?) and moved to Fort McLeod in 1900 at the insistence of brother Alf an NWMP officer in MacLeod. The Eb Chugg story above indicates that Eb Chugg knew the Ellis family before arriving in Alberta. There is also an interesting connection when you look at the Eb Chugg family history. Nellie records that, at the time of Mary Fitzpatrick Chugg’s death, Mr. Tom Blair, Mr. J Ellis, Mrs. Sandgathe Sr., and Mrs. Felix Sandgathe were a comfort to her until her death. First, what a statement and testament to her neighbors and friends. This sentence stands for all time. Secondly, What was it about this statement the ties the Chugg clan and the Ellis clan? Mary Fitzpatrick Chugg of Hull is comforted by Jim Ellis of Ottawa. Talk about a strong connection between the Ellis and Chugg family and Fitzpatrick family! So I now conclude through two stories that the Chugg family knew the Ellis family of Ottawa and followed them out to MacLeod. The next question is why was Jim Ellis so close to Mary Fitzpatrick? Were they neighbors in Ottawa, were they cousins, were they school friends, or other. More research into the Ellis family will reveal the clues. The other connection is that of the Blair family. Eb Chugg knew the Blairs from the Ottawa region. Thomas Blair owned a dairy in the Billings Bridge region of Ottawa and delivered milk to the city of Ottawa. The Blairs were the first people to take care of Mary Fitzpatrick Chugg when she got off the passenger train in Leavings, Alberta.Her first evening was spent at teh Thomas Blair Family home in Leavings. She may also have known the Blairs while in Ottawa, as well, or had just known the association between he husband and the Blair family. Regardless, this contact demonstrates the bond between the Blairs and the Chugg family, as they remained close to Mary even to her death in 1908. In tribute to this connection between these two families, the Thomas Blair family story is included below: 
The Sandgathe family was also very loyal to her. Eb had purchased land from Felix Sandgathe and Mrs. Felix Sandgathe provided consolation and support for Mary as well. Dalt Fitzpatrick Story 
Ellis Family story 
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