The Clegg Family

Philip Clegg was born on April 25, 1851 on the Brittish Isle of Man. He immigrated to America and married Elizabeth T and they had two children, George and William. Elizabeth was born in 1853 and married Philip on January 22, 1874. She died as a young mother just three years later on September 12, 1877, in Willow Creek, Idaho (in present day Cassia County), at the age of 24, and was buried in Winnemucca, Nevada.

Three of Philip's children are buried here. George died at age seven years, two months. The newspaper said that without warning to parent or child the Grim Messenger of Death laid hands upon the innocent child and gently carried him away. The bereaved father and loving friends did all that could be done to stay the unlooked for messenger, but all to no purpose. George has gone to meet his dear mother in another world, where sickness is not known, and happiness reigns supreme, leaving his younger brother on earth to comfort his mourning father. 

Philip then married Margaret Emily Bridson in 1883 at the Isle of Man and they had four children together. His namesake son, Phillip Douglas Clegg, died at Pleasant Valley on April 10, 1888, at 10 months of age. A large number of friends of the grief-stricken parents followed the remains to the Odd Fellows cemetery where the babe was buried beside his brother. The following year, another 10 month old infant, James Henry, died in 1890 and is laid to rest here. 

Philip Sr. and Margaret raised their two daughters and one son on their farm in Pleasant Valley. They later moved to Caldwell where Philip lived to be 76, passing in 1927. Margaret is buried next to him passing in 1932 at the age of 75.