Beauty

 Located about 20 miles northeast of Tatum, the town of Beauty survived only a few years.

Started by Rufus Hall in 1915, Beauty had a post office that was granted in August 1916 with Anna Hall as Postmistress. The same year it is recorded that Beauty had a small school.

Rufus, built a small wooden building that became the Beauty school with daughter, Anna Hall as the Head Mistress. Anna instructed eight children from two families in the school.

A photo from the "Lea County Geneological Society" dated 1916 in "Lynn C Mauldin's book: Lea, A pictorial History", list the following people;Horace Hall; Gertie Hall; Maggie Hamlin; Babe Hamlin; Louella Hall; Anna Hall (teacher); Lexie Hall; Allen Hall and Theodore Hall.

The school lasted only a year and a shortly after that in November of 1918, the post office, now with Rufus Hall as postmaster, was discontinued.

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Informational sources:

The History of Lea County Post Offices...James W. White

Lea County, A Pictorial History...Lynn C. Mauldin

Lea, New Mexico's Last Frontier...Gil Hinshaw

Lea County Genealogical Society