Biographies: D. K. Cary, 1958, Winn Parish, La
Submitted by Greggory E. Davies, 120 Ted Price Lane, Winnfield, LA 71483

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From: March 6, 1958 Winn Parish Enterprise News-American
      April 3, 1958 Winn Parish Enterprise News-American

(H. B. Bozeman article reprinted with permission granted me by Mr. Estes
Bozeman)

Winn Parish As I Have Known It

by H. B. Bozeman

Articles 74 & 78

Unusual Characters of Winnfield

D. K. Cary

For many years before and after World War I, D. K. Cary lived alone in the
rear of a small frame business building on Court Street opposite the court
house square, between where Troy's Supermarket and the Venus Theater are now. 
In the front of part of the building Cary operated his cabinetmaker's shop.

The main thing I remember about D. K. Cary's cabinetmaking was that he made a
cone shaped fly trap of wire screen inside a wooden frame.  His fly traps were
popular sellers in the summertime here in Winnfield and the surrounding area. 
One of his fly traps, well baited in a good location would catch as many as a
gallon of flies in a day or so.

D. K. Cary like many other characters that came to Winnfield in early days,
just suddenly appeared on the scene.  Where he came from I don't know and
don't know anyone else who did.  He was an avid reader and a well informed man
on almost any subject, particularly religion and politics.  He claimed to be a
Socialist in politics and was a regular attendant at nearly all Methodist
Church services until his death about 25 years after he came to Winnfield.

I talked to D. K. Cary many times.  Never at any time did he ever mention
anything about his life prior to coming to Winnfield.  Recently I asked Judge
Oglesby did he know anything about D. K. Cary's life before he came here. 
Judge Oglesby said he knew Cary well all the time he lived here but nothing
about the man until he saw him here in Winnfield.  Judge Oglesby said the only
thing he could recall Cary saying that would give a hint as to his past was
that D. K. Cary once said that he was related to the old time gospel hymn
writer named Cary.  To me, D. K. Cary was and still is a man of mystery.

From Article 78

More About D. K. Cary

Miss Maude Harper tells me that D. K. Cary and her father, the late State
Senator S. J. Harper, were good friends.  That one time D. K. Cary's two
sisters from St. Louis came to Winnfield to visit their brother and stayed at
the S. J. Harper home.  Miss Maude Harper says Cary's sisters were well-to-do
people and so was D. K. Cary at one time and held a responsible position with
a railroad company.  He was engaged to marry a young lady but that she jilted
him and he quit his position and began wandering over the country until
finally he settled down here in Winnfield.

Miss Maude Harper also informs me that when D. K. Cary became feeble and
infirm that Dr. F. C. Wren got him admitted to an old peoples' home in New
Orleans a short time before he died.