"Born in Clarence, Annapolis Co., N.S., July 4, 1841; married Ellen, daughter of James and Margaret (Moody) Banks, Jan. 13, 1864; lived twenty-five years near Bridgetown, then emigrated to Wilton, N.H."

Source: Chute, William Edward. A Genealogy and History of the Chute Family in America: With Some Account of the Family in Great Britain and Ireland, with an Account of Forty Allied Families Gathered from the Most Authentic Sources. Salem, Massachusetts, 1894. Page 161.

"Sophia, b. Oct. 18, 1864, m. Elias Sabean, June 18, 1882, and had da. Hattie, b. Apr 2, 1884; he was drowned off the Ocean Wave, Nov. 4, 1884, aged twenty-two. She m. 2d, Wm. H. Bent, Feb. 23, 1886; and had Gordon D. Bent, b. Dec. 26, 1887; Elsie, b. June 10, 1888; and Lucy, b. Sept. 8, 1891."

Source: Chute, William Edward. A Genealogy and History of the Chute Family in America: With Some Account of the Family in Great Britain and Ireland, with an Account of Forty Allied Families Gathered from the Most Authentic Sources. Salem, Massachusetts, 1894. Page 161.

According to her nephew, the Rev. Clarence Linam Chute, "Edmund had no children but adopted Elbert, son of his sister Sophia, and he lives in Worcester, Mass. Edmund is the last of the family living in Worcester." See Notes.

According to his nephew, the Rev. Clarence Linam Chute, "Edmund had no children but adopted Elbert, son of his sister Sophia, and he lives in Worcester, Mass. Edmund is the last of the family living in Worcester." See Notes.

Obituary, Edmund Crowell Chute

W. Boylston Man Dies, 80

WEST BOYLSTON, Dec 18 � Edmund Cromwell Chute, 80, of 129 Church street, died Friday night.

He was born in Bridgetown, N.S., son of James J. and Ellen (Banks) Chute, and lived in this town for many years. He was a retired carpenter for E.D. Ward Co. of Worcester.

He leaves his wife, Mary E. (Mellen) Chute; a son, Elbert Chute of Boylston; three grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren.

He was a past grand of Centennial Lodge, IOOF, of this town and a member of Tribe 49, Improved Order of Red Men, of Wilton, N.H., and Second Church of Christ Scientist, of Worcester, and Mother Church in Boston.

The funeral will be held at Flagg Funeral Home, 34 Central Street, Sunday at 2 p.m. Frank Berchman of Woonsocket, R.I., reader at Second Church of Christ Scientist, Worcester, will officiate. Centennial Lodge, IOOF, will conduct services at the grave in Mt. Vernon Cemetery.

Calling hours will be tonight, 7 to 9, at the funeral home.

Source: See

"Born in Clarence, Nov. 9, 1845; married Anna A. Farris, Feb. 15,1870; moved to Windsor Depot, New Hampshire about 1880 and is doing well there as a tradesman."

Source: Chute, William Edward. A Genealogy and History of the Chute Family in America: With Some Account of the Family in Great Britain and Ireland, with an Account of Forty Allied Families Gathered from the Most Authentic Sources. Salem, Massachusetts, 1894. Pages 161-162.

Anna A. Farris Chute is identified as Alethia A. Chute on the tombstone of her eldest son, Charles Augustus Chute.

Died young.

Source: Unknown.

Harriet Amelia Chute was known as "Hattie".

Source: Chute, William Edward. A Genealogy and History of the Chute Family in America: With Some Account of the Family in Great Britain and Ireland, with an Account of Forty Allied Families Gathered from the Most Authentic Sources. Salem, Massachusetts, 1894, p. 162

"Born at Digby Joggins, Digby Co., Feb. 7, 1807; taken to Cornwallis by his parents in infancy, married Elizabeth Rebecca Rand⁸ (Abishai⁷, John⁶, Thomas⁵, Caleb⁴, John³, Thomas², Robert¹, over to Charlestown, 1635; died 1689) by Rev John Prior, Sept. 29, 1831, New Canaan, Cornwallis and stayed there till March 1840, during which time three daughters and a son were born and died in infancy and childhood, when they moved to Frederickton, New Brunswick and attended the great celebration of the Queen's marriage the first of May, when a whole ox was roasted*. He followed shoemaking. To look for more or better work, he left New Brunswick in March 1849, and lived in Albany and Greenbush, New York, and (hearing that his wife was dead or deserted him), married Mary Alice Eliza, daughter of Paoli and Rebecca Randall, and widow of Captain James W. Taylor (lost off the ship Alamance, 1848, aged 33, leaving two sons, James Henry born 1846 and William George born 1848), by Rev George Hall, Apr. 17, 1849, in New York City, and then moved to Mt. Clements, Mich., and drove stage and carried mail until 1852; then he moved to Swan Creek, St. Clair County and was a storekeeper and stave merchant through the summer of 1853; then went to California; came back in the fall of 1855, and moved to Eyota, Olmstead County, Minnesota and there "farmed it" on a good quarter section of prairie land until 1863, when he sold out and moved to near Albert Lea, Freeborn County; where he again farmed. In the spring of 1866, he went to California again; came back in the fall, and afterwards wandered into Western Dakota and settled in the Black Hills, where he died March 26, 1889. As D. D. Chute was reported dead in New Brunswick, his "widow" married Dea. Eli, son of Hosea Taylor of Orient, Me., 1853, and lived in Lower Woodstock and Eel River; had three sons and a daughter, two were twin boys that died in infancy. She died Feb. 28, 1891, about eighty.

*Note: Queen Victoria's marriage to Prince Albert took place on 11 FEB 1840, in the Royal Chapel of St. James, in London.

Source: Chute, William Edward. A Genealogy and History of the Chute Family in America: With Some Account of the Family in Great Britain and Ireland, with an Account of Forty Allied Families Gathered from the Most Authentic Sources. Salem, Massachusetts, 1894. Page 97-98

"My own ancestor, Laughlin Isadore Chute, was Emily Rebecca Chute's brother, and I have been trying to uncover the mystery surrounding their mother, Elizabeth Rebecca Rand (who also, by the way, must have been a colorful character and who re-married while her husband Daniel Dimock Chute was married to his second wife). The mystery to me is trying to identify Elizabeth Rebecca Rand's parents. I am certain that her father was Abishai (or Abisha) Rand, who has his own extensive family tree going back several generations. There are sources available on the internet listing Abishai's children, but Elizabeth Rebecca Rand is not one of the listed children. There is another daughter Elizabeth in Abishai's family, but it is not her. Both of these daughters were mentioned in Abishai's will -- ours was referred to as his "requital daughter" "Elizie" Chute. I do not know what "requital" means, but that is how the word is spelled in a transcribed copy of the will that one of the Rand descendents sent to me. I think it is probable that Elizabeth's mother is not the same woman who was the mother of Abishai's other children, but I was unable to find a record of an earlier marriage for him in the records I have researched. No one with whom I have corresponded knows who Elizabeth Rebecca's mother is. Interestingly, Abishai has a listed sister named Elizabeth whose birth date is approximately the same (if not identical) to the date listed for our Elizabeth in the William E. Chute book.

Our Elizabeth Rebecca Rand apparently did not get along well with her father. In his will, he left his other daughters each a cow, a feather bed, and twenty-five pounds. He left our Elizabeth five shillings! He was living in Ontario at the time, where he apparently raised his family, except our Elizabeth. She was still in New Brunswick (I believe) with her second husband.

Anyway, I was wondering whether you have any information that would solve this mystery."