The simplest answer to this question is that Dario was Anastacia's dad. He was among the first generation born on Quintana Ranch after its homesteading in the 1860s. Growing up in the Trujillo Creek Valley was far harder in Dario's day with the raising of most of the food and in the keeping of the Catholic faith within a small community. Dario was, by all accounts, a very devout man, participating in the building of the local 'blue church' as it's known now, the St. Carmel