Rich McKay
Rich McKay is Anna McKay’ s son, her youngest child born and raised in Eureka, Nevada. His earliest childhood memories were always of his mom’ s stories of her life in Germany, of his grandfather who perished as a soldier in France, and of her struggles to learn English and fit in when she moved to the states with his father. Rich owed it to his mom to put all of these stories into print for her family to cherish and for others to read and enjoy. Rich has always been an avid history buff and genealogist. Part of his father’ s family has been in the United States since before the Revolutionary War, and the McKay family has been in Nevada since the early 1860s and in Eureka since soon after the town’ s birth in 1864. He wrote this book as a tribute to his mom as well as to his deceased father and to the past generations of his family so that their lives will not be soon forgotten.