Part of a road map of southern California produced by the Automobile Club of Southern California, early 1920s. Map shows the development of roads, railroads, and communities in the southern Nevada area at that time. (Courtesy Of Claudia Reidhead, Beatty, Nevada)
Jake Beckley, partner with Ed Von Tobel, Sr., is shown next to supply wagon on its way to one of the mining camps of the Rhyolite or Beatty Districts. Physical object has an insert containg additional biographical information.
From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series III. Beatty, Nevada -- Subseries III.G. Reidhead Family. Smoke can be seen rising from the chimney of the large house in the background and both it and the cabin in the foreground on the left appear to be occupied.
Katie Ford was born April 13, 1929 in Ely, Nevada. Her family lived in multiple cities in the state before moving to Beatty, Nevada when Ford was two years old. She worked at her family’s gas station and hotel while she was a teenager. When Ford moved to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1945, she continued her career as a waitress.
Erma Cunningham (1912-2003) taught school throughout Southern Nevada. She was born October 26, 1912 in Granby, Missouri. Cunningham taught in one-room schools in Beatty and Nelson, Nevada and retired from Gordon McCaw Elementary School in Henderson, Nevada. She passed away on March 9, 2003, in Henderson, Nevada.