William Fletcher Auxier
1834 - 1922

William Fletcher Auxier, a farmer and stockman, was born in Floyd County, Kentucky. At the age of 14 to 18 years he followed boating on the Big Sandy and Ohio rivers. All the schooling he received, he got in about three months, under immeasurable difficulties. He is now a well-informed, self educated man, having an excellent faculty of expressing and elucidating any subject, on any and all occasions. In business, he has always been successful. In 1852, he came to Mason County, Illinois and worked here and there farming and herding cattle for wages. He commenced on his own account in 1855, and in 1856, he took his first lot of fat cattle to New York City, the first ever shipped by cars from Salt Creek Township. He owns 400 acres of good land in Salt Creek Township. History of Menard and Mason Counties, Illinois 1879

William Flecther Auxier married Mary Anne Denham in Mason County, Illinois on October 25, 1859. They were the parents of:

1. Emma D. Auxier who married Ralph J. Irwin
2.Clark L. Auxier who married (1) Kathurah McCluggage (2) Alice W. Briles (3) Bessie B. Martin
3. Cora Auxier who died at the age of seventeen

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