Margaret
Auxier Chambers
Margaret Auxier Chambers was an intelligent, handsome girl. She became the bride of Lorenzo D. Chambers, a prominent farmer and cattle merchant of Logan, West Virginia. After her wedding, she bade farewell to relatives and home in Kentucky and went to live in the Old Dominion. She writes thus; "I was married May 8, 1855 fifty years ago and came to Logan, Virginia as it was then known. After the war was over, I was living in West Virginia. I have lived on the same farm the entire time."
"The citizens here lived by farming, stock raising and hunting wild game in the hills. They had all the bear, deer, coon, wild turkey and honey they wanted. Hardly a day passed without a deer chase or a bear hunt. I have thought that a pack of dogs after a deer was fine music. I never killed a deer myself but I have helped the dogs keep them in the creek until some of the men would come and shoot them. Mr. Chambers has taken bears out of trees and killed them with an axe and a butcher knife. He has shot so many he has forgotten the number."
"Mr. Chambers has represented his district three time in the legislature. He has also held a great many county offices and refused a great many. He sold goods for a long time but is now chiefly engaged in farming."
"I am the mother of fourteen children, five of whom are dead and nine living. Six are married and have families. Five are not married. I have 43 grandchildren living and 9 who died. I also have 11 great grandchildren."
The family is well off financially and has a good home situated on the beautiful Guyandotte River in Logan County, West Virginia.
Agnes Auxier - 1908