Amanda Ellen Earl

Tonopah, Nev. Mrs. Amanda Ellen Nay, 90, daughter of early-day Mormon pioneers, died here Friday after an illness of four years. Funeral services were conducted Saturday under the direction of the LDS church. Mrs. Nay had resided here since 1901 and was a member of an early colonization party into southern Utah and Nevada as a child. She resided several years in Colorado, then returned to Nevada. She was born in Salt Lake City on August 15, 1849. Her husband, Joseph Brigham Nay, died in Goldfield in 1905. She is survived by a son, John E. Nay of Tonopah: four daughters, Mrs. Ellen Scribner of Bend, Ore.; Mrs. Mark Kibler of Mesa, Ariz., Mrs. Harry Quackenbush of Heppener, Ore. and Mrs. Charles Hansen of Gilbert, Nev.; a brother, Sylvester Earl of Virgin, Utah, and a sister, Mrs. Rose Warren of Las Vegas. Amanda Nay is prominently mentioned in the book: A Mine of Her Own: Women Prospectors in the American West, 1850-1950 By Sally Zanjani Thanks to Information from: Joy Whitney Stubbs great great grandniece

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