Peter Newton Peckinpaugh.  He went to Fossil, Wyoming in 1900 from North Dakota. His wife was Jennie Mary (Wallace) Peckinpaugh. He was a section forman for the Oregon Short Line Railroad. He later decided to take up ranching and continued that until his death. Jennie Mary (Wallace) Peckinpaugh opened a boarding house as a means of support for her family. The boarding house was known as the Fossil Hotel, which had five bedrooms upstairs, a office, a sitting room, big dining room and kitchen. All the bedrooms had slop jars and wash bowls and pitchers. The Peckinpaugh children went to school from the 1st grade through the 8th grade in a one room school house. The Fossil Hotel is torn down now, but one family by the name of Lewis still lives in a section house near by. Jennie Mary (Wallace) Peckinpaugh was a good friend of Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Penny, who owned all the large J. C. Penny's stores from which many of us today have shopped. When she knew them,he had just opened his first store in Kemmerer, Wyoming. The store was built out of the wooden boxes that the store supplies came in. It was a one room building 10 X 14 feet. Peter Newton Peckinpaugh had a twin brother named James Marion Peckinpaugh. Children of Peter Newton and Jennie Mary (Wallace) Peckinpaugh were (1.) Agnes Rachel (born Aug. 19, 1885 - died Dec. 21, 1954) (2.) Ernest Newton (born June 17, 1888 - died Feb. 22, 1912) (3.) Minnie Ethel (born Jan. 25, 1890 - died July 18, 1969 (4.) Arthur Ray (born July 16, 1892 - died May 14, 1968) (5.) Aden Lloyd (born March 2, 1896 - died Feb. 7, 1978) Aden Lloyd lived and died in Kemmerer, Wyoming (6.) Nancy Irene (born June 15, 1898 - died Aug. 27, 1982)