ROBERT LEACH WALTER WAS BORN IN BABCARY, SOMERSETSHIRE ENGLAND IN 1846, AROUNDB 1866 HE CAME TO AMERICA TO ILLINOIS AND THEN MISSOURI WHERE HE MET AND MARRIED ISOBEL GREER IN 1878. THEY HAD 4 CHILDREN SUSIE IN 1880, CLAUDE IN 1882 AND TWO DIED IN INFANCY. IN 1884 HE MOVED HIS FAMILY TO BARBER COUNTY, DEERHEAD TWP WHERE HE HOMESTEADED LAND. HE LATER MOVED INTO MEDICINE LODGE WHERE HIS FIRST WIFE DIED IN 1905, SHE IS BURIED IN HIGHLAND CEMETARY, HE THEN MARRIED ENDINA ROBB IN 1909 WHO LATER DIED IN 1911. ROBERT LIVED TILL 1919 AND IS BURIED IN HIGHLAND CEMETARY. HIS BROTHER HUGH PENNY CAME TO AMERICA ABOUT 1890 AND HE ALSO HOMESTEADED IN DEERHEAD TWP. HE MOVED TO TULSA OKLA TO LIVE WITH HIS NEPHEW IN 1917, HE DIED IN 1927 AND IS BURIED IN HIGHLAND CEMETARY IN MEDICINE LODGE