I have always been touched by the appearnce of Lilly's memorial in the Ogden City Cemetery. It is a simple stone, stating only name and dates. This, in itself is not bad; but everybody's life has more than these- don't they?
Lilly married twice, divorcing from her first husband William Andrew Jones and marrying second Wade Hampton Joyce. They married in 1918 and their child Robert Carroll Joyce was born 31 May 1919. Alas, Lilly died June 1, 1919. Her death certificate lists smallpox as the primary cause of death.
Again I refer to my grandmother's stories. Her mother, Edna Chugg McCullough help care for the infant in the weeks after the birth and death of her cousin. I do not know for how long. Nearby Lilly's memorial is Wade's and his second wife. Her children have passed away now, Robert in 2008.
Lilly's life lasted roughly 30 years, how young that seems to many of us! Shall we believe she had the needs (as we all have) in life met? Happiness, love, peace of mind that her children would grow and prosper. And as I understand they did.
Lilly Adell Chugg (1888-1919)d Salt Lake City, UT
sp William Andrew Jones (1888-1946)d North Ogden, UT, m 1909 div
sp Wade Hampton Joyce (1878-1961)d Salt Lake City, UT, m 1918
.Thelma Lilly Jones (1910-1989)d Pleasant Grove UT
.sp Clarence Marcelle Wilson (1910-1987)d Pleasant Grove UT, m 1932
..Lilly Marcella Wilson
..sp Keith Westman
..Clarence Marcelle Wilson, Jr
..sp Carol Paulsen
..Joseph Charles Wilson
..William Wade Wilson
..Georgina May Wilson
..sp Marvin L Ross
.Charles Andrew Jones (1912-1979)d Richmond CA
.sp Margaret Hall (1908-2000)d Provo UT, m 1938
..David Bert Jones
..sp Leslie Jean Muder
. Robert Carroll Joyce (1919-2008)d Richland WA
.sp Norma Dorothy Harman (1921-1996)d Richland WA
..Stephen Brent Joyce
..sp Carol K Nixon
..Mary Joyce
..Carol Joyce
..Helen Joyce
..sp Mark Monroe
Here I leave my immediate Chugg kinships. I will have only one personal recollection of my Grandmother Backman's, a Chugg reunion in Providence where she stayed with Aunt Sadie (whom she described as an old, frail woman in what I guess roughly was 1912) but I begin to recount the family history of many lines I have come into contact with through my research. I hope I maintain an helpful and sensitive accounting of this family.
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