When Jesse Ary was born on 4 July 1889, in Indian Township, Payne, Oklahoma, United States, his father, Lee H Ary, was 29 and his mother, Nancy Jane Seymore, was 28. He married Conzadia Baker on 2 August 1910, in Le Flore, Oklahoma, United States. He lived in Latimer, Frontenac, Ontario, Canada in 1935 and Gowen Township, Latimer, Oklahoma, United States in 1940. He registered for military service in 1919. He died on 21 October 1954, in McAlester, Pittsburg, Oklahoma, United States, at the age of 65, and was buried in Wilburton, Latimer, Oklahoma, United States.