CA355

Conversations with Fay Rudd Chiles about Chiles Family
(C. Avis Catalog entry #355)

Her husband, Charles Dwight Chiles, told her this about his family:

C. D. Chiles' grandfather, John Lewis Chiles, raised and raced racehorses.  He owned an apartment in the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York for use only by himself and trainer when in New York for races.  John (or maybe another grandfather or great-grandfather) died while returning home on horseback drunk from a poker game.  He fell off the horse into a snowbank and froze to death.

Fay and husband took a train to Galveston after their wedding ceremony to catch a ship to New York.  The ship left early without them to miss a storm near Florida.  It encountered the storm and all baggage was lost, but passaegers and ship were saved.  They stayed in the Galvez Hotel until time to arrive in New York for their reservations.

C. D. Chiles' father, Charles Chester Chiles, was born in Falmouth, KY.  He had a cousin in Cincinati working for a railroad.  He got C. C. Chiles a job with the Q & C railroad to Birmingham, AL.  He became prominent and honorary Chief of Police.  He married Lena Rose Nave.  Her mother, Mary Ayres Nave, ran a boarding house in Birmingham.  

C. C. Chiles was an engineer and became a dispatcher on the railroad.  He replaced an engineer on a run.  There had been flooding and the train jumped the tracks and he was killed.