Rob, Pete is said to have come from Austria at the end of the 1800's or the beginning of the 1900's. He came over to avoid the manditory military of Austria. He had heard about the gold mines in South Dakota and came to work till he time would be up so he could go back home. But in the mean time he met a rancher near Sundance that showed him where there was land he could homstead near Moorcroft, Wyoming. Then he also met his future bride through the same rancher because she was the teacher in the rural school there. Her name was Margeret Noonan. Her parents lived in Moorcroft. They are both buried in the Moorcroft cemetery.