Generations Coming Through Catherine Chugg Chappelle

When I began searching for that 'whole other' family in the Ogden city cemetery I also found there were colateral lines, especially from Catherine, John's sister. I would learn later that she had migrated to the Lehi area, adding to the richness of my heritage there (yes, I am one of those Kirkhams!)

The emmigration from Cardiff and Canton in Glamorgan, Wales, included the stonemason Arthur Bradder and his young family which included wife Mary Jane Chappelle, granddaughter of Johanna and who now is the subject of this post. The family traveled from Liverpool England aboard the ship Wisconcin, departing 19 Sep 1877 and arriving New York City on the 22nd. The number of LDS - Mormon immigrants listed is 482. Mary Jane and Arthur Bradder had two children with them on this journey: Alice Maude and Henrietta. Their first child, Evan John had died in Wales as a toddler of two. Bearing and rearing child in the 1800s was difficult, as it certainly remains today. Mortality in infancy and childhood was more common, if not frequent. Mary Jane would bear thirteen children, burrying nine as infants or in youth. The burried ones in Ogden are without markers, not uncommon when set against the hardships of pioneer life, and I have wondered if stones were for one's own children are too difficult for a stone cutter. Possibly, as well, is the cost of stones when one is struggling to develop one's business even as a stonecutter. I do not know the answers to these riddles I present myself, and really it does not matter as much as matters the fact I can and do go to that place of quiet repose and remember Mary Jane's babies.

Later, in Lehi Arthur did better in his vocation and we have stones of his work in public places as well as memorials in a cemetery.

Mary Jane Chappelle (1856-1924)d Lehi UT
sp Arthur Bradder (1855-1930)d Lehi UT, m 1874

.Alice Maude Bradder (1875-1914)d Lehi UT
.sp Charles de St Jeor (1871-1920)d Park City UT, m 1901
..Mary Jane de St Jeor (1902-1987)d Lehi UT
..sp James Hartshorn (1891-1936)d Lehi UT, m 1920
..Ann de St Jeor (b/d 1904)d Lehi UT
..Alice Maude de St Jeor (1906-1978)d Merced CA
..sp Lester Philip Halstead (1901-1971)d Merced CA, m 1927
..Arthur Victor de St Jeor (1909-1910)d Lehi UT
..Charles Elmo de St Jeor (1914-1996)d Salt Lake City UT
..sp Sarah Tame (1912-2002)d Salt Lake City UT, m 1936

 .Henrietta Bradder (1876-1965)d Salt Lake City UT
.sp Joseph Johnson Gill (1869-1948)d Salt Lake City UT, m 1896
..Arthur Bradder Gill (1897-1981)d Salt Lake City UT
..sp Mary Jane Littleford (1903-1946) m 1922
..Myrtle Annette Gill (1899-1990)d American Fork UT
..sp George Marshall Webb (1899-1969)d American Fork UT, m 1919
..Claire Laverne Gill (1902-1987)d Lehi UT
..sp Delbert Francis Norman (1897- )m 1923
..Joseph Bramwell Gill (1905-1987)d Bountiful UT
..sp Leonora Miller (1907-2000)d Cupertino CA, m 1927
..Mabel Arvilla Gill (1908- )
..sp Willice Edgar Groves (1909- )m 1929

.Jane Elizabeth Bradder (1880-1969)
.sp John de St Jeor (1868-1951) m 1903
..Wallace Bramwell de St Jeor (1906-1969)d Salt Lake City UT
..sp Melva Adamson (1906-1993)d Salt Lake City UT, m 1931
..Louie de St Jeor (1908- )
..sp Harold E Meyers m1928
..Francis Lyman de St Jeor (1910-1933)d Provo UT
..Alfred William de St Jeor (1912-1979)d Pleasant Grove UT
..sp Toni Gunnarson (d 1974) m 1974

.Mabel Catherine Bradder (1892-1979)d Penryn CA
.sp William de St Jeor (1888-1972)d Modesto CA, m 1911
..Arthur Bradder de St Jeor
..sp Olive Marie Frost
..William Henry de St Jeor (1914-1960)d Merced CA
..Mabel Emma de St Jeor
..Esther Sybil de St Jeor
..sp Vern Erlick Bryson (1920-2005)d Auburn CA, m1942
..Robert Nyle de St Jeor
..sp Frieda Mae Burton

Mary Jane's children lost in childhood were Evan John Bradder (1874-1876), Arthur Bradder (1879), Mary Ann Bradder (1882), Selimer Bradder (1883), Ellen Bradder (1884), Alfred Victor Bradder (1889), Myrtle Fidelia Bradder (1890-1891), Martha Bradder (1893) and Ruth Bradder (1895)