Naylor - Isaac (Judge) - Montgomery InGenWeb Project

Judge Isaac Naylor, a distinguished and honored citizen, died at his residence in this city last Saturday morning at the advanced age of 83 years.

Judge Naylor was born in Rockingham County, Va., in July, 1790. When he was three years old his father removed to Bourbon County, Ky., where he lived ten years when the family moved to Clark County, in this state. In 1833 he came to this city, since which time he has lived here. In 1837 he was appointed Circuit Judge, and held the position until 1852. In 1860 he was again chosen to the Bench, and served eight years as Common Pleas Judge. He was a soldier in the War of 1812 and participated in the various campaigns of that war, particularly distinguishing himself at the memorable Battle of Tippecanoe.

Throughout a long public life, Judge Naylor was in every sense an honest man and a consistent Christian. He was buried Sunday afternoon under the auspices of the Masonic fraternity of which order he was a zealous and devoted member for fifty six years.

At the opening of the Circuit Court proceedings were suspended and a meeting was held by the members of the bar in respect to the memory of the deceased. After a eulogy of the dead, by Hon. H. S. Lane, formerly a law partner of Judge Naylor, and remarks by Judge Willson and Judge Cowan, on motion of Senator Lane, Judge Willson was elected chairman, and Peter S. Kennedy secretary.

Resolved, that in the death of Judge Isaac Naylor the state has lost one of her most honored and respected citizens. As a soldier, he was brave and dutiful; as a lawyer, he was guileless, honest and truthful; as a judge, he was pre-eminently pure that throughout the long period of twenty three years that he served on the Bench, he was never assailed by even a suspicion of corruption. His integrity and fidelity were so stern and unyielding, that temptation itself vanished at his approach. He is justly entitled to the highest tribute of honor that can be bestowed upon any human being, that in every position in life he was called to fill, he was faithful and true.

Resolved, that we tender to his aged widow and his children our profoundest sympathy in their great bereavement, and assure them that his sterling virtues shall be enshrined in our memories and ever held up to the profession he so much loved and so long honored as the only passports to lasting usefulness and renown - s

Buried in Masonic (Oak Hill Grant Avenue) Cemetery

Born: 30 July 1790 - 26 April 1973 - has the old iron stone - love it !