Archie Aaron "Art" Coulter was the fourth of five children of Aaron Archie Coulter & Etta Crecelius. He married 28 October 1908 to Olive Fay "Fay" Kurtz (1889-1979), third daughter of Christian Gingrich Kurtz & Hannah Jane Puterbaugh; 11 children: twins Keith & Kenneth (both lived only a few weeks in March 1909), Velma, Ralph Clell, Ollie Fay, Dorothy Mae, Aaron Archie "Archie", Neal Kurtz, Marjorie Jean, William Frank (September 15-16, 1928), and William Frank Coulter. Arch & Fay had 35 grandchildren and 111 great-grandchildren.

Coulter brothers Arch & Fred married Kurtz sisters Fay & Verna. They were farming north of Marshalltown, Iowa; but in February 1913, they sold out* & moved to Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, to raise wheat & cattle. After a ruinous crop that summer, Fred, Verna, & Fred Jr. returned by train to central Iowa, and settled northwest of Conrad on a 320-acre farm called The Elms.

Arch & Fay & their children remained in Saskatchewan until the spring of 1915, when they migrated west to Alberta, Canada. In 1926, they returned to the United States and settled near Charlo in Lake County, Montana.

When war broke out in Europe in 1914, Arch was farming at Maybutt, Alberta, Canada. But as a citizen of the United States, he registered for the military draft. He was 29, with a wife & 4 children. He was medium height, medium build, blue eyes, brown hair. He signed as A.A. Coulter.

*The auction was held Wednesday, 12 February 1913 at 10 o'clock sharp, at the farm of the brothers' father-in-law, C.G. Kurtz, 8 miles north & 2 miles east of Marshalltown, Iowa, or 4 miles south of Conrad, & 1 mile west of the Keefer one-room schoolhouse. Col. Owen White was the auctioneer.

He sold 16 horses, 18 cattle, 31 sheep (30 ewes & 1 buck), 58 hogs (including 15 Chester White brood sows, bred for May pigs), farm machinery, seed corn, chickens, etc. Free Lunch at Noon (which was prepared by Fay & Verna & their mother, Hannah Jane Kurtz).

Half a century later, Fred Coulter Sr. recalled that the day was bitterly cold; the bidding was slow & stingy; but the crowd's appetites for the free food was huge!

The 1916 census of Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada, lists Arch Coulter, 29; his wife Fay, 27; daughter Velma, 6; son Ralph, 4; daughter Ollie, 1; and two male lodgers, one age 22 & one age 28.

Having boarders was a good way for the wife to earn a little money from board & room. And it was a good deal for the boarders, too. They had someone to cook their meals & clean (& often mend) their clothes. And these two lodgers were lucky: Fay Coulter was a fine cook! (& a wonderful person, too).

Art died @ Misson Valley Hospital, St Ignatius, Lake County, Montana .

The photo shows Arch & Fay with their first daughter, Velma, circa 1910.