The Grand Marshal of the 116th Nevada Day Celebration was Gae Gih Wah, of Pioche, operator of a Chinese restaurant and boarding house there for many years.
A native of China, she was the only person of Chinese ancestry in Lincoln County, and owned and operated the Chinese restaurant and boarding house at the Caselton mine.
Taken to San Francisco by her parents at the age of 12, and at 15, chosen by her father's tong to become the bride of Tom Wah, she moved to Caselton where the newly married couple cooked and ran the boarding house for the Prince Mine.
They operated the facility from 1915 through the 1930s with a trip to China where their adopted son was born and a strict quota system in the United States barred his return and nearly that of the family. Tom Wah died in 1933 without ever seeing his son again. She flew to Hong Kong in 1971 to see her son and her four grand children.