Written by Waneta M. Arner (current e-mail not known).

Isaac Frank Arner moved from Arkansas with his parents, as did his future wife Missouri Ann (Thompson) Arner. They apparently met and married while living in the Chickasaw Nation in Ryan, Oklahoma.

In the census of 1910, we located Isaac in Blackburn Twp., Jefferson Co., in what is now the state of Oklahoma. He is enumerated with a Thomas J. Cross in Supervisor’s District 6, Enumeration District 148, on sheet #015A. Apparently they were living on Washington Avenue. His brothers, John, and Will C. are nearby. Isaac's father has passed away and brother William C. (Will) has become head of his mother, Mary E. (Faut) Arner's household. Will is 23 and single, and does general farming. His younger brother, Noah, 20 and also single, is a laborer on the home farm. The younger sisters, Lottie M., 17, and Lula, 14, are living on the farm with Will also.

All the Arner's were educated as all speak, write and read English. Will and Isaac are both farmers, and John W. is a carpenter.

Isaac, on the 1910 census, enters an occupation of Drayman. He owns his home, though mortgaged, and was out of work two weeks in 1909. Isaac and Missouri Ann were parents of their first five children before they purchased another home. Isaac and Missouri Ann purchased their small frame home in Ryan, Oklahoma on 15 December 1911. Deed records show that they paid $350.00 down. It was financed for 3 years at 6% interest, with 2 payments to be made each year, one in January and one in July.

Lucille Arner, Isaac's daughter in law [married to Alfred (Alf) Arner] stated that Isaac was one of the finest men she ever knew. While owning a Service Station in Ryan, and during WW II, he was responsible for seeing that the most deserving were able to find tires. He would always see that those who did deserve them got them somehow. Isaac owned and operated the service station up until time he either retired, sold, or passed away. Remnants of the old station could still be found in 1993.

She went on to say that he would give you the shirt off his back.

Isaac was a nomadic type. During the late 1950's, he jumped a car on a train to Houston for a visit with his eldest son, Ted Glenn Arner, Sr. He no sooner saw him and said “hello” than he jumped the next train for home (Ryan, Oklahoma).

The Arner family were a hard working family, honest, and respectable citizens.