Thanks for all the info. Peter was a resident of Bourbonnais and came there via Choes, NY. He was born in Canada. He was married to an Austrian and had two daughters, on of whom died very young and is buried in MBVM Bourbonnais Cemetery. I seems that he was a very well known guy in the area. Although it appears he had a home from the census--sometime later he was described as a person who lived in the woods???? He was good friends with Edward J. Joubert, a great-uncle of my husband. It's said that the two of them hung together in early Bourbonnais and people were curious about what the two of them were always up to. Also, he was known as Indian Pete. I'm doing this from memory and have more information at home in my records. nancy