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Should nominations for Father of the Day be in order, 81 year old, Jim
Ary would surely be selected by the people of Stigler, Oklahoma.
Ary is the father of 14 children, the oldest son, C. D. Ary of __
Belford St., Duarie, was host to his father yesterday. Ary's youngest son,
George, __, is visiting in California with his father.
Figures of the Ary family show 14 children, __ grandchildren, __ great
grandchildren and one great-great-grandchild.
Some interesting data on Jim Ary's background indicates the gentleman
was prominent in Oklahoma's legendary history.
He was the first man to carry mail in the Indian Territory of Oklahoma
by Pony Express. For three years he carried mail to homesteaders within a
__ mile radius.
When he was 17 and courting his first wife, who lived 20 miles from his
father's place, he had an experience that few can boast.
"I was walking the 20 miles home from her place late one
afternoon, and still had quite a piece to go when a woman in chaps and two
Winchesters flanking her horse stopped and asked me if I could us a ride.
I said yes, and climbed up behind her. After a little she asked me if
"I knew who she was. I had began to wonder by that time, but I still
didn't know for sure. Then she told me I was riding with an outlaw - Belle
Starr's the name."
"I was ready to walk the rest of the way home by this time but she
wouldn't let me down. Instead she told me that if anything started
happening, I could slide off the horse and take off through the brush.
Nothing happened and when we reached home and I got off and she rode away.
"The next day we heard that she had gone on into Cuahunga Bend in
Porum, Oklahoma and danced all night. Early that morning the peace
officers caught up with her and shot her.
Ary came to Oklahoma in 1889 when he was 16-years-old. The family
settled in Cache. Soon after he married he became a blacksmith making
____, coffins, shoeing horses, making plow shares, farm equipment, cook
stoves and anything else he was asked to make. He continued in this line
of work for 51 years.
_________ Stigler, and has been a deputy sheriff of Haskell County ____
1948.
Yesterday the California members of his family gathered for a Father's
Day celebration. The C. D. Ary family, the Carl Ary family and five
children including Florece Riley, his oldest child from San Diego where
present. Also present were 12 grandchildren, three great grandchildren and
one great-great-grandchild.
