Philip Edgar Chugg

A young Edgar and Mary Chugg photo:

Back row left:  John Remple, Stan Magill, Laura Chugg Magill, Phillip Elmer Chugg, Allan Chugg, Shirley Colton?Chugg,Norman Chugg

Middle Row left:  Ruby Chugg Remple, Luella Chugg, Evelyn Chugg, Annie Chugg Jacobsen, Jeannette Remboldt Chugg

Front row : Mary Ellen May Chugg and Philip Edgar Chugg  Clairmont or Grande Prairie, Alberta, Canada.

A later photo of Philip Edgar Chugg and Mary Ellen May Chugg and family at the parents' 50th wedding anniversary.

Back row: Phillip Elmer Chugg and wife Bertha Presho Chugg, Shirley Colton Chugg and husband Allan Chugg,

Stan Magill and wife Laura Chugg Magill seated, Dick Jacobsen and wife Annie Chugg Jacobsen seated, John Remple and wife Ruby Chugg Remple seated, Jeanette Remboldt Chugg and husband Norman Chugg, Ken Hillmer and wife Luella Chugg Hillmer seated.

Front row center: Mary Ellen May Chugg and husband Philip Edgar Chugg, Evelyn Chugg seated to Edgar's right.

Mary Ellen May Chugg and Edgar Philip Chugg 50th wedding anniversary

Another youthful photo of the Edgar and Mary Chugg family:

Back row: Norman, Elmer and Allan

Middle row: Luella, Laura, Evelyn, Annie & Ruby

Seated: Mary Ellen May Chugg and Philip Edgar Chugg

The Northern Alberta Chugg kids:

Back row: Elmer, Annie, Ruby

Middle row: Allan, Evelyn , Norman

Front row: Laura holding Luella

Note: This is in front of the homestead home built by Edgar, the boys and a carpenter hired to do the windows. Elmer and allan worked at the shake plant and received bundles of shakes with which to side the home.  Note the tar paper stuffed in around the window. I lived in this house with my Dad Elmer and family when I was six years of age. Edgar and Mary made a deal with my Dad so that he could farm and provide for his family. We had no running water or electricity for over a year. I learned first hand what a homestead was.

The second earliest picture of the Edgar Chugg family.  This is John Remple and Ruby Chugg's wedding.

From the left back: Evelyn, Annie, Allan, Elmer

From the left front: Norman, John Remple, Ruby Chugg Remple, Laura, Mary Ellen May Chugg holding Luella and Philip Edgar Chugg.

I am told this photo was of the boys and the DeMaere boys at a DeMaere event in Red Deer.  Edgar's sister Pearl married John Demaere. The DeMaere kids grew up along side of Edgar and his siblings just west of Granum, Alberta. Edgar's father Philip Elisha Chugg (Uncle Phil) farmed around Granum along with his brother Ebenezer Rogers Chugg (yes Rogers!). Uncle Phil's brother John stayed in Ottawa and raised a large family out there. (See his page). Charles Robert Chugg farmed in Parkbeg Saskatchewan and died young there. His wife, Catherine Julia Thompson was sister to Uncle Phil's wife Annie  Thompson Chugg. Catherine moved to Granum to live with her brother Edward Thompson and his wife. They lived next door to Uncle Phil.

So Edgars' boys, Uncle Phil's grandsons are in this photo down in Red Deer:

Pitching -Elmer who broke his back in a pitching accident at about the age of twenty. He could not walk for over a year and suffered fromthe problems for the rest of his life.

Batting- Allan who loved all sports. His sons Wesley and Gerald were excellent athletes.

Catching- Reverend Norman Chugg  Sometimes just one of the boys having fun!

Some of the following photos belong on individual family pages and I will move them at some point.

Phillip Elmer Chugg and Bertha Lillian Presho Chugg and family:

Back row: Michael Philip Chugg, Katharine Lillian Chugg, Bradford Robert Chugg

Front row: Bertha Presho Chugg, Wendy Ellen Chugg, Leslie Ann Chugg,  Phillip Elmer Chugg about 1972.

Greatgrandmother May (married to Reuben Waldo May), Grandma Mary Ellen May Chugg, Ruby Chugg Remple and fourth generation: Shirley Remple (Yakimets)

The headstone lies in the Grande Prairie Cemetery. A beloved daughter of John and Ruby Remple, departed wife of Ron Mulligan, mother and cousin to many of us. Our happy, joyful, loving Dorothy. Dorothy's headstone also rests in Grande Prairie Cemetery.

The Reuben Waldo May family. Our grandma, Mary Ellen May is second from the right in the back row. Reuben's mother was Polly Close. She died when he was a toddler. The Close family enterer New York State in the 1700's. The Close farm is located in Tioga County Penssylvania close to the Pennsylvania, NEw York border. The Close family was named the Cloos family until the Civil War. Reuben's father Waldo May moved north to Michigan and raised his family there.

I will add more on Reuben's wife when I look in my reference books!

John and Ruby Chugg Remple.

Mary Ellen May Chugg, Bertha Chugg holding a Tannis Donaldson (Mary's great granddaughter) and Ruby Chugg Remple.

Stan Magill and Laura Chugg Magill wedding photo 1951.