NAYLOR-Isaac - Fountain County INGenWeb Project

Isaac Naylor was born in Rockingham Co VA in 1790. When about 36 years of age he married Mary Catherine Anderson a daughter of Capt. Robert Anderson and his wife, Catherine Dumont. As judge he traveled the circuit and held court until he had reached his 79th year. He died in Crawfordsville, Indiana in 1873. Was a resident of the town for 50 years, a soldier of 1811, 1812, 1813 and 1814, a hero of Tippecanoe, a pioneer of Indiana and as long one of the judges as any man who ever lived or died in that State. His courage, integrity and high character will long make his name of blessed memory, not only among his own descendants but all who are thoughtful enough to realize that much of our present prosperity and happiness is but a natural sequence to the indefatigable labors of those who have preceded us.

Isaac Naylor followed Judge Porter. He was a Virginian, born in 1792; brought to Kentucky and when 7 or 8 years old, to Charleston, Clarke Co IN; read law with Supreme Judge Scott; served as a soldier in 1811; practiced law in Charleston until the spring of 1833 when he moved to Crawfordsville; was first a partner of Thomas J. Evans and then associated himself much more congenially with Henry S. Lane; was elected circuit judge by the legislature in 1838; served 7 years; was reelected; held second term of six years; was then elected by the people judge of the court of common pleas and continued such for six years. He died, full of honors in June 1873. He was thorougly imbued with the principles of the system of pleading yet found n Chitty. In the early time his contemporaries called him familiarly Old S.D. - Special Demurrer.