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Volume 063-3 - July 2009 (6 pages)
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NCHS Bulletin July 2009
Birdseye view of Washington in winter, photographed from Phelps’ Hill, showing the Chinese settlement (right front) alongside
the rushing waters of the South Fork of the Yuba River. (Searls Library photo.)
Mine was turning out to be big—and the mill was kept as
busy as the new telephone.
Minnie Buisman Worthley died suddenly on February
16, 1899, after an illness of only a few days. The sudden
death was a shock to her family and friends alike, for she
was only 41 years old. The funeral was held at the hotel and
she was buried in the Washington Cemetery in a plot near
her parents and two sisters.
E. T. kept busy the next few years with the hotel and his
mining interests. In 1903 he was elected Supervisor of the
Third District in Nevada County. One of his mining properties was the El Capitan Mine, where he was at the time
developing a ledge of mineralized quartz, from thirty to one
hundred feet wide. He was hoping to find “ore of sufficient
richness,” and had driven a crosscut tunnel 265 feet into the
hill, hoping that by another 100 feet he would strike a ledge
where he would drift “to find an ore shoot which crops out
at the surface.”
By 1905 E. T.’s son, Charles Thaxter Worthley, was
running the Washington Hotel, and in May of that year he
was appointed a deputy sheriff of Nevada County. On June
28th two couples from the town of Washington were married by Rev. James Williams of the Methodist church in
Nevada City. One was Charles T. Worthley, who married
Amy Simonds at the Antlers Hotel. The other couple was
Miss Leona Yeaw, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Yeaw of Washington, who was married at the National Hotel to Fred B.
Milner of Mountain View.
A Past Connection
On November 5, 1908, E. T. Worthley married Mary
(Holly) Wilkinson, a widow who had formerly worked at the
Washington Hotel but had recently been living and working at a hotel in Auburn. She had come across the plains in
1850 to California with her family when she was a young
girl. Mary Wilkinson had three children—William, Cora
and Carrie—by her first husband, who had been in the hotel
business in Lincoln, Placer County, before his death. E. T.
and Mary were married at the home of the bride’s brotherin-law and sister, Thomas and Hickory Marker, on Coyote
Street in Nevada City. (The bride and her sister were born in
Missouri, and perhaps that was why Mary’s sister’s unusual
name was Hickory.) Thomas Marker, had been E. T’s partner in the stage business after he first moved to the town of
Washington in the 1860s.
After their marriage the Worthleys moved to E. T.’s four-~