{"id":116,"date":"2020-07-30T18:33:25","date_gmt":"2020-07-30T18:33:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/barnard.estatesalewebsites.com\/?page_id=116"},"modified":"2025-01-23T20:14:40","modified_gmt":"2025-01-23T20:14:40","slug":"our-history","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/barnardauctions.com\/index.php\/our-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Our History"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>OUR HISTORY<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li>Lifelong residents of Wayne County in Rural Southeast Illinois<\/li>\n<li>Agricultural Business Graduates \u2013 Western Illinois University, Macomb, IL<\/li>\n<li>Members of Alpha Gamma Rho \u2013 social and professional fraternity<\/li>\n<li>50+ Years of community, church, and benefit \u2013 fund raiser events<\/li>\n<li>Commitment to Local Schools, FFA, and 4-H benefit auction events<\/li>\n<li>Third generation BARNARD agri-business family serving SE Illinois &amp; tri-state areas<\/li>\n<li>Contract Auctioneers with major wholesale auto auctions \u2013 auctioneering autos in Detroit, Chicago, Indianapolis, Evansville, Kansas City, and St. Louis<\/li>\n<li>Expertise and Recognition in LMA\u2019s \u2013 World Livestock Auctioneer Contest<\/li>\n<li>Auctioneering Experience Selling Cattle in Lexington, Kentucky and Southern Illinois<\/li>\n<li>Former Partners in Cattlemen\u2019s Livestock, Inc. \u2013 cattle auction market at Wayne City, IL<\/li>\n<li>Members of National Auctioneers Association &amp; Illinois State Auctioneers Association<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/IMG_4458.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-93\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/IMG_4458-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/barnardauctions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/IMG_4458-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/barnardauctions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/IMG_4458-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/barnardauctions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/IMG_4458-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/barnardauctions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/IMG_4458-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/barnardauctions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/IMG_4458.jpg 1791w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/IMG_4460.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-94\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/IMG_4460-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/barnardauctions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/IMG_4460-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/barnardauctions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/IMG_4460-1024x767.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/barnardauctions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/IMG_4460-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/barnardauctions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/IMG_4460-1536x1151.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/barnardauctions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/IMG_4460.jpg 1912w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Our true character is revealed by the clarity of our conviction, the deliberate choices we make and the promise we keep. We hold strongly to our principles and refuse to take short-cuts for convenience. What we say and do defines who we are \u2013 BARNARD AUCTIONS \u2013 Auction Excellence \u2013 Since 1969 \u2013 Only At Auction!<\/p>\n<p><strong>BARKLEY BARNARD\u00a0 \u2013\u00a0 DENISE BARNARD\u00a0 \u2013\u00a0 MARK BARNARD<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OUR HISTORY Lifelong residents of Wayne County in Rural Southeast Illinois Agricultural Business Graduates \u2013 Western Illinois University, Macomb, IL Members of Alpha Gamma Rho \u2013 social and professional fraternity 50+ Years of community, church, and benefit \u2013 fund raiser events Commitment to Local Schools, FFA, and 4-H benefit auction events Third generation BARNARD agri-business [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-116","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/barnardauctions.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/barnardauctions.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/barnardauctions.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barnardauctions.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barnardauctions.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/barnardauctions.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":190,"href":"https:\/\/barnardauctions.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/116\/revisions\/190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/barnardauctions.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}