First Generation
Christian and John Michael Axer were close relatives and thought to be
brothers or first cousins.
A. Christian Auxer
B. John Michael Axer
Second Generation
A. Christian Auxer and his
family arrived in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on September 15, 1749. They sailed
on the ship "Edinburgh". The family
remained in Pennsylvania settling near Elizabeth Town in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.
He died at the age of 58 and was buried in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania on September 5,
1767. He was a widower, with one daughter, when he married Maria Barbara Wentz, July 24, 1742, in Germany. She died at age 78 and
was also buried in Lancaster County on March 5, 1788. They were the parents of
four
children.
A1. Anna Maria Auxer who married John George Redsecker
A2. Christopher Auxer who married Catharine
Danner
A3. Henry Auxer
A4. Elizabeth Auxer who married Richard Thompson
A5. Michael Auxer Sr. who married Margaret
B. John Michael Axer died in Virginia in August of 1777. On December 21, 1746, in Tulpehocken Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania, he married Maria Barbary Spiess. She was born in Germany the daughter of Ulrich Speiss. Their children were;
B1. Anna Elizabeth Axer
B2. Anna Catherine Axer
B3. Eva Margaretha Axer
B4. Maria Magdalena Axer
B5. George Auxier
B6. Simon
Auxier
B7. Nancy Auxier who first married a Baker. In 1777, she married William
Christian.
B8. Samuel Auxier I
B9. Michael "Bald Headed Mike" Auxier
III
B10. 
Abraham Auxier
B11. Sallie Auxier
B12. Jane Auxier
Third Generation
A2. Christopher
Auxer married Catherine Danner in St John's Episcopal Church on February 19,
1778. They made their home near Lancaster, Pennsylvania. They were the parents of 10
children.
A2-1. Anna Marie Auxer who married George Doebler.
A2-2. Jacob Auxer who married (1) Sarah Ward and (2) Clara Ward.
A2-3. Elizabeth Auxer who married Jacob Steffe.
A2-4. Catherine Auxier who married John Dern.
A2-5. Susanna Auxer who married Benjamin Graybill.
A2-6. M. Margaret Auxer who married John Oster.
A2-7. John Auxer who married Jane Park.
A2-8. Sarah Auxer
A2-9. Salome Auxier I
A2-10. Salome Auxer II
B5. George Auxier
was born between 1747 and 1753. He was married twice. The name of his first
wife is unknown. His second marriage was to Dorcas Shelly. George's first home
was Russell County, Virginia. He moved to Franklin County, Georgia and
later moved to Montgomery County, Kentucky where he died in 1809. The children
from the first marriage were a daughter and
B5-1. Samuel Oxsheer who married Sarah Wilson.
There were at least eight children from his second marriage to Dorcas Shelly.
B5-2. James
Auxier who married Elizabeth Ewing.
B5-3. Elizabeth Auxier who married William
See.
B6. Simon
Auxier came to the Big Sandy Valley about the same time as his younger brother
Samuel. The name of his first wife is unknown and she probably died before he
came to Kentucky from Virginia. He married for the second time in Lawrence County,
Kentucky to Mary Elizabeth Fugate. Simon's grave in the Hopson Cemetery near
Auxier, Kentucky has been marked by the D.A.R. Simon's children from his first
marriage were;
B6-1. Christopher Auxier who married Peggy Collins.
B6-2. Thomas Jefferson Auxier Sr
who married (1) Nancy Fitzpatrick (2)Nancy Furbush Large.
B6-3. James E. Auxier
who married Susannah Bush.
B6-4. Tabitha Auxier who married George McCoy.
B6-5. Peggy Auxier who married Zachariah Rose.
B8. Samuel Auxier I was born in Hampshire County, Virginia about 1759. He married Sarah "Sallie" Brown in Culpeper County, Virginia on July 15, 1779. Samuel and Sallie owned 180 acres on the head of Copper Creek in Russell County, Virginia which they sold in 1793 before they began the journey into the Big Sandy Valley of Kentucky. They settled their family in the area of Johnson County, Kentucky known as the Blockhouse Bottom. Samuel died in 1799. Samuel was riding with neighbors when his horse spooked and threw him violently against a tree. He sustained serious chest injuries and died a few days later. Sallie died in April of 1862. Their children were;
B8-1. Nathaniel Boone Auxier who married Constance
Beck.
B8-2. Nancy Ann Auxier who married James
Wallace Brown.
B8-3. Mary Barbara Auxier who married George Delong Jr.
B8-4. John Neville Auxier who married Jemema Ramey.
B8-5. Daniel Auxier who married Mary Virgin.
B8-6. Samuel Lewis Auxier II who married (1)
Rebecca Phillips (2) Agnes Wells.
B8-7. Elijah
"Little Lige" Auxier
B8-8. Enoch Auxier who married Mary Ann Vanhoose
B8-9. Frances Amelia
"Fanny" Auxier who married Samuel Hannah.
B9. Michael Auxier will forever be known in the annals of family lore as "BaldHeaded Mike." The story behind the nickname is bizarre and the stuff of which legends are made. According to Agnes Auxier, Michael was stalking deer at a salt lick near Fort Blackmore, Virginia when he was surprised by an Indian who knocked him senseless with a tomahawk and relieved him of his scalp. Luckily, the wounds were not fatal. Michael survived the ordeal and wore a hat at all times thereafter to cover the horrible scars left by his encounter with the Indian at the salt lick. Dr. David Auxier Michael married Jane Lovelady and they were the parents of;
B9-1. Mary Auxier who married
Christopher Moore
B9-2. Samuel M. Auxier
B9-3. Nancy Auxier
B9-4. Sarah Auxier who married Benjamin Congdon. They lived in Mercer County,
Illinois.
B9-5. Michael Auxier who married Mary Greenlee
Fourth Generation
B6-2 Thomas Jefferson Auxier Sr married Nancy Fitzpatarick. Their children were;
1. John Auxier
2. Nancy Auxier who married William Dyer
3. Thomas
Jefferson Auxier Jr who married Calista McDaniel
4. Leah Auxier
5. Isaac Auxier
Thomas Jefferson Auxier Sr. married for the second time to Nancy Furbush Large in Lawrence
County, Kentucky on May 23, 1822.
B2-2 James Auxier was born in Kentucky. He married Elizabeth Ewing in Kentucky about 1810. They made their home in Preble County, Ohio. In 1856 James and Elizabeth bought land in Warren County, Indiana. Several of their children moved to Warren County with them and others remained in Ohio. James was a bitter opponent of slavery, strong in his convictions and fearless in upholding what he believed to be right. James died in 1873, he and Elizabeth are buried near Williamsport, Indiana. They were the parents of:
1. George
Washington Oxer
2. Sarah Oxier who married John Hefner
3. William James Oxer who married Louisa Ellis
4. Mary J. Oxer who married Abram H. Florey
5. Serlida Oxer
6. Susan Oxer who married William Nixon
7. Prisilla Oxer who marred a man named Houser.
B2-3
Elizabeth Auxier married William See
on June 3, 1805 in MontgomeryCounty, Kentucky.
They were the parents of;
1. George See
2. Nimrod See
3. Benjamin See who married Anna Powell.
B8-2. Nancy
Ann Auxier was born at Castlewood, Virginia in Russell County. She married
James Wallace Brown. They were the parents of 10 children.
1. Elijah Brown who married Alcey Coffee.
2. Sarah Brown who married William P. Nickell.
3. John Brown who married Abigail Cassety.
4. Amanda Brown who married John Botts Lacy.
5. Daniel K. Brown who married Rebecca Easterling.
6. Samuel Washington "Little Sam" Brown who married Cynthia Ann Nickell.
7. Nancy Brown who married Fowler Nickell.
8. Elizabeth "Betty" Brown who married Charles T. Adams Jr.
9. James Jackson Brown who married Malinda Howerton.
10. William "Billy" Brown
B8-5 Daniel
Auxier was born in Russell County, Virginia in 1788. He married Mary "Polly"
Virgin, the granddaughter of Capt. Resin Virgin, in Greenup County, Kentucky
on February 14, 1815. They were the parents of 14 children.
1.
Jemima Ellen Auxier who married Hezekiah Borders.
2. John B. Auxier who married Eveline Lane.
3. Eli Virgin Auxier who married Margarette Whipp.
4. George Auxier was killed by a saw log on John's Creek in Kentucky.
5. Daniel Boone Auxier who married Lucinda Linthicum.
6. Frances Emily Auxier who married William J. Burchett.
7. Sarah Auxier
8. Samuel W. Auxier who married Sarah Ann Brooner.
9. William Fletcher Auxier who married Mary Anne Denham.
10. Kenzie M. Auxier who married (1) Ester Roberson (2) Sarah Ann Wiggins.
11. Eliza A. Auxier who married Gerhard Herwig.
12. Richard Auxier
13. Nathaniel Auxier
14. Nancy Auxier
B8-6 Samuel
Lewis Auxier II was born August 7, 1791 in Russell County, Virginia. He
married Rebecca Phillips, the daughter of John Phillips and Sarah Buchanan on
October 1, 1812. They were the parents of 11 children.
1. Nathaniel Auxier who married Hester Ann
Mayo.
2. John Brown Auxier who married Angeline
Jones Mayo.
3. Jemima Auxier who married John
Prater Jr.
4. George Washington Auxier who married Nancy Prater.
5. Sarah Buchanan Auxier who married George Washington Mayo.
6. Joseph Kelly Auxier who married Elizabeth Jane Walker.
7. Samuel Auxier III who married Rebecca Elizabeth Mayo.
8. Rebecca Auxier who married Thomas Prater.
9. Martha Jane Auxier who married Henry W. Walker.
10. Amanda Araminta Auxier who married James Niebert.
11. Henry Jefferson Auxier who married Harriett Music.
After the death of Rebecca Phillips
Auxier, Samuel married for the second time to Agnes Wells on May 2, 1838. They were the
parents of 6 children.
1. Margaret
Louise Auxier who married Lorenza Dow Chambers.
2. Elijah Brown Auxier who married Anna Margaret Richmond.
3. William
Lewis Auxier who married Louisa Ford.
4. James Knox Polk Auxier who married Susannah Emaline Spradlin.
5. Susan Angeline Auxier who married John Richmond.
6. Nancy Auxier
B8-8.Enoch Auxier was born in
Virginia. He married Mary Vanhoose who was 20 years younger than he. Enoch and Mary were the parents of:
1. Sarah Malisa Jane Auxier who married Zion Stapleton
2. Lydia Jemima Auxier who married Rollin Pelphrey
3. Samuel W. Auxier who married Jane Wellman
4. Nancy Ann B. Auxier who married Jacob Webb
5. Joseph Decab Auxier who married Charlotte Spradlin
6. John Wesley Auxier
7. Grant Auxier
8. William D. Auxier who died in infancy
9. Frances Emaline Auxier who married Bud Porter
10. Elizabeth Auxier who married Thomas Walker
B8-9 Frances Amelia
"Fanny" Auxier was born in the Blockhouse Bottom. She married Samuel Hannah,
the son of Ebnezer Hannah. They were the parents of:
1. Sarah Ann Hannah who married Cornelius Porter and
moved to Morgan County, Kentucky.
2. Mary Margaret Hannah who married William Hyden Sr.
3. James Ebenezer Hannah who married Susannah Charlotte Webb
4. Louisa Jane Hannah who married Abraham Goble and moved to Kansas.
5. Nancy Minerva Hannah who married William Jasper Webb.
6. Francis Emaline
Hannah who married Dr. Isaac Goble.
7. Samuel B. Hannah who married Margaret Hammons and moved to Kansas.
8. John Hannah
9. Shadrach Hannah