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Gene’s parents, David and Mercedes Roberts, became the owners of the “new”
Carlile Store in 1964. With it they purchased property across the highway and
the old Carlile Store and Post Office, a log building that served in that capacity
from 1931 to 1954. Beginning its life in 1902, the old store’s log cabin was
originally the home of the Langenbachers, homesteaders two miles up Cabin
Creek. The log cabin was moved to its new location in 1931 by Harold “Smitty”
Smith, a 13 year old boy who used a bobsled to move the individual logs.
The Langenbachers’ daughter, Emma, married John Zimmerschied in St. Louis,
Missouri. In 1908, John moved his wife and four sons to Wyoming after seeing
his brothers’ success in the state. Besides running the mail route for the Carlile
and Moorcroft areas from 1914 to 1936, John and Emma operated the old Carlile
Store and Post Office from 1931 to 1942. The store and post office’s new home in
1931 sat on land belonging to Lester Zimmerschied, the son of John and Emma.
The store and post office continued in this location until 1954, changing hands
with