Here are two tintypes showing Maude Ethel Epling Beaty as a young child. She was born September 23, 1878 in Auburn, Sagamom County, Illinois to Paris Epling and Emma Jean Price Epling. In 1883, the family came to Muscotah, Kansas, and later moved to Holton, Kansas. Maude married E. B. Beaty on March 9, 1899. He worked as a traveling salesman and Maude stayed in Holton when she did not accompany E. B. on business trips. He died January 26, 1916 in Kern, California and Maude died May 8, 1931 in Topeka, Kansas.