JKP AUXIER 81, DIED FRIDAY OF PNEUMONIA

YOUNGEST MEMBER OF FAMILY OF 16CHILDREN PASSES AWAY

DAUGHTER DIES 2 DAYS LATER

MASONS IN CHARGE

                James K. Polk Auxier died at his home in the old Historic Block House Bottom, across the river in East Point, on Friday, April 2nd after a short illness beginning with the flu and terminating in pneumonia.

                Mr. Auxier was the youngest of a family of sixteen children of Samuel Auxier, he mother Agnes Wells, being the second wife of Samuel Auxier. He was 81 years old and at the time of his death possessed a memory remarkably clear and vigorous, until his death. He read widely and was unusually well informed for one of his years.

                His death marked the passing of one of  a large and well known family, all of his brothers and sisters having preceded him in death.

                He is survived by three sons,Dick, Robert and Milton. The only remaining daughter Ann, who was very ill with the flu at the time of his death, died on Monday, following the funeral of her father on Sunday.

                The funeral was held on the old home on Sunday morning, and was conducted by the Masons of the East Point Lodge of which he had been a loyal member of many years.

                Internment took place in the family cemetery near his old home.

                Miss Ann Auxier, daughter of JKP Auxier, died at the home of her father on Monday April 5th. She was the youngest daughter of JKP and Emily Spradlin Auxier. She had faithfully cared for her aged father for many years. She was a woman of strong character and was greatly beloved by all who knew her.

                She was buried on Tuesday in the old family cemetery, near her father and mother.

The Paintsville Herald

Thursday

April 8, 1926