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Henry H. Naylor is the fourth of ten children born to Woodfin and Ellen (Nelson) Naylor, and is of Irish and English descent. He was born in Bedford County, Tenn., November 25, 1841, and his boyhood days were spent on his father’s farm. He acquired a common school education, and has made farming his chief business through life. At the breaking out of the war he joined the First Mississippi Cavalry, Confederate States Army, for eighteen months, and was then transferred to Capt. Henderson’s scouts, serving in this command until the close of the war. He participated in the battles of Shiloh, Corinth, Vicksburg and Jackson, besides many other battles and skirmishes of less note. He served three years and nine months and was paroled at Gainesville, Ala., May 12, 1865. September 24, 1868, he wedded Cynthia A. Mansfield in the house where he now lives. They have four children, three living: Hallie L., Charles Bell and Maria Kate. Mrs. Naylor was born in Obion County August 12, 1842, and died November 11, 1883, being buried within fifty yards of the place where she was born, raised and lived all her life. Mr. Naylor is a Democrat, and a member of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, and has held the office of constable. His father is a Tennessean, born August 12, 1812. He was reared and educated in Bedford County, and after his marriage moved to Fulton County, Ky., where he remained two years and then moved to Obion County, Tenn. He was magistrate in his county twenty-two years, and is now practicing law in Union City. His wife was born in Virginia September 17, 1817.