Thomas Jefferson Auxier (1855 - 1930)

Born 3 Dec 1855 in Catlettsburg, Boyd, Kentucky, USA

Ancestors

Husband of Barbara Ellen Banner — married 28 Feb 1892 in , , Missouri

Died 6 Sep 1930 at age 74 in El Reno, Caddo County, Oklahoma, USA

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Biography

Thomas Jefferson was born about 1855 in Kentucky.^[1] Family lore indicates he was born on 3 December 1857 in Catlettsburg, Boyd, Kentucky. He was the son of George Washington Auxier and Nancy Elizabeth (Prater) Auxier.^[2]

Thomas Jefferson was buried after 6 September 1930 in , Custer Co., OK, Zion Chapel Cem.

Thomas Jefferson Auxier married Barbara Ellen Banner on an unknown date in Missouri^[2]

Research Notes

Notes from external profile

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"Through the blackness of the prairie night, the wagon slowly rumbled on toward the faint light of a lantern suspended from a pole, the only sign of the tiny dugout in the side of a canyon. Seated in the wagon with her husband and brother-in-law, Barbara Ellen Banner Auxier held Arminta, her 10 month-old baby, in her arms. No one will ever know the thoughts that must have gone through the mind of the young mother, wife of Thomas Jefferson Auxier, as she was about to begin a new life in the Oklahoma Territory.

Like so many other early settlers, the Auxier came to the new country as a family. Four brothers, Bill, Sam, Thomas and George, filed around 1894 on adjoining homesteads in the northeast corner of Washita county, five miles south of the future town of Weatherford, Oklahoma.

Ella Auxier and her baby made the trip by train to El Reno, Oklahoma. Her husband, Thomas Jefferson Auxier, following a day later with the family's possessions on a freight train. Tom's brother Bill met them there and helped reassemble the wagon and load it. Then came a four day trip through the unbroken prairie over unmarked trails and across the treacherous Canadian River to a dugout home and a primitive new live.

Thomas Auxier's homestead of 160 acres was one mile west and five miles south of present day Weatherford. His brother Sam arrived that summer to stake out a claim two miles north and, later, George settled just west of Sam.

It was late autumn when the Auxiers arrived and it was necessary for them to live in the dugout all winter, as did most other settlers. It was a sometimes lonely life. When Thomas Auxier found it necessary to make the long trip to El Reno for supplies, Ella would be left alone for days with only the baby for company.

On one such absence of the father, during a cold snowy day, an Indian, clad only in a breechcloth entered the dugout. Terribly frightened, the young mother slowly made her way between the unannounced visitor and the baby sleeping on a bed. However, the Indian warmed himself at the fire, grunted something that may have been his thanks, and left as silently as he had come.

Thomas' brother, Sam, a carpenter, helped his brother build a two room house which was said to be the first within a radius of 10 miles. Thomas had dug a well and before long had broken and fenced 40 acres to meet requirements for "proving up" his claim. Thomas Jefferson Auxier's first crop of cotton made a profit of 60 cents.

written Joyce Mabry Carney

published May 10, 1973 - The Weatherford Daily News"

Resarch Notes

• The Ancestral File Number section had an unexpected line: : Ancestral File Number: 1CC8-P89

Sources

1. ↑ "United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MMGG-Q6R : accessed 10 November 2020), Thomas J Auxir, Union Township (north half), Washita, Oklahoma Territory, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 210, sheet 9B, family 171, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1972.); FHL microfilm 1,241,342.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} Marriage: Media: Index Abbreviation: International Genealogical Index(R) Title: International Genealogical Index(R) Author: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Publication: Copyright (c) 1980, 2002 Date: 2 Dec 2005 Italicized: Y Paranthetical: Y. Citing: Page: downloaded 30 Apr 2010 Quality or Certainty of Data: 3 Date: 30 Apr 2010 (accessed 9 November 2020)