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These are direct quotations from the book "The History of
Adams County", by Evans and Stivers

Chester C. W. Naylor was born in Monroe Township, Adams County, Ohio,
October 20, 1849. His Great-grandfather was a native of England, and
emigrated to Lexington, Massachusetts. It is tradition in the family that
he and five sons, of whom the great-grandfather , James Naylor was one,
participated in the Battle of Lexington. (I had to re-read this several
times before I got it straight, that James Naylor is the above mentioned
great-grandfather) At the close of the war, James Naylor located near
Cumberland, Maryland, and later located forty miles west of Pittsburg,
in Pennsylvania. He moved his wife and four children on two horses over
the Alleghenies. The wife and four children were on one horse and he
lead the other horse loaded with their goods. In 1792, he and a neighbor
named Mehaffey and a boy named David Young, built a flat-boat and with
their effects, floated down the Ohio River. They landed at Limestone
after three day's voyage on high water, though it usually took from six
to nine days.

James Naylor located at Washington, Kentucky, and remained till 1796,
when he removed to Gift Ridge, Adams County, Ohio. Mrs. Naylor brought
with her from Pennsylvania, a number of apple seeds and planted them in
Kentucky. When she removed to Ohio, she dug up the young sprouts and
took them with her. She replanted them and from them have come the
famous "Naylor Apple". The trees grew from twenty four to thirty inches
in diameter, and the apples were large and juicy. James Naylor had 2
wives, the first was a Miss Brinket, and the second was Margaret Packet.
He had four sons and two daughters. Of the sons, Samuel was the
grandfather of our subject (Chester C.W. Naylor). He was born in
Washington, Kentucky. He married Sallie Tucker and lived and died in
Monroe Township. The other brothers went west. One daughter of James
Naylor married Mark Pennywit, and the other married John Washburn.
Samuel Naylor married Sallie Tucker and they had seven sons and four
daughters. Samuel Parker Naylor, father of our subject (Chester again)
was born on the old homestead November 02, 1827. From 1856 to 1858, he
conducted a merchandise business at Wrightsville, and later ran a small
steamboat between Cincinnati and Manchester. On January 1, 1849, he was
married to Elizabeth Jane Taylor. They had nine children, of whom our
subject (good old Chester) was the oldest.

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