Ernest R. Cheadle was born in 1860 in Albany Oregon. In 1880 he was working as a laborer in El Cajon, California.
Married Melinda Julia Hearn in 1889 in Sacramento, California and had two kids, Ernest Jr. and Bessie. He and Melinda Julia divorced in 1896 in San Francisco.
He came to Alaska and built the Cheadle Hotel and Restaurant in Dyea in 1898. He was also appointed the Dyea U.S. Marshal from June 10, 1898 to November 29, 1898.
Although he was living in Dyea, Alaska, he went to Seattle on February 2, 1899 and married Nellie Ada Hewitt. She presumably died because he then married Sylvia Jurinda Smith, a Swedish gal from Utah on November 2, 1903 and had two more kids. In 1910 he was living in Seattle, Washington with his 4 kids and Sylvia and working as a real estate person. Ernest Cheadle died on June 8, 1921 in Seattle, Washington.
Pictured above is another cozy hotel in Sheep Camp.
S.F. Call online; Washington State Records; Skagway Museum record; Rootsweb for King family;
I was thinking Marlene that for older Luddite-type folks you might think of having a way to comment without all the fallderoll of setting up a profile. I mean, what bad swear words and comments could you direct to someone who’s long dead?
Wish I knew how to change that, its a techie mystery to me. I just know old stuff.