Enoch Auxier
1795-1884

Enoch was about 6 months old when the Auxier family came to eastern Kentucky. Enoch helped to clear the timber in the river bottoms from the mouth of John's Creek to the lower end of the Blockhouse Bottom. During his bachelor life he frequently boated salt up the Big Sandy River from Portsmouth, Ohio. Previously, the settlers carried salt on horseback from King's Salt Works in Virginia. Old women brought feathers or cotton to buy Enoch's salt. Enoch did not want such things, but he took their produce and let them have the salt. Agnes Auxier

On December 6, 1834, at the age of 38, he married Mary Vanhoose . Mary was born in Virginia and was well known as a good woman. "Mother worked hard and was so good to visit the sick. The night was never too dark, nor the rain too hard for her to go to see the sick. She was an orphan, her parents having died when she was young; so she had to make her own support. She stayed at respectable homes and was well thought of and continued to have the love and respect of all who knew her." "Papa was a kind hearted man, always observing the golden rule. He obtained a very good education and was somewhat literary in his tastes. He was fond of history and the Bible was his close companion during his long life." Elizabeth Auxier Walker

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