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First marriage was Martha M. (Davis) Taylor.

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James Decatur Naylor, Confederate veteran, was born August 18, 1822, near Shelbyville, Bedford County, Tennessee, to John and Sarah Woodfin Naylor.
Following the outbreak of the Civil War, James, who was five months away from his 40 birthday, joined a company that was raised in Millwood.
After being elected captain, he and his men traveled to Dallas, where they were mustered into the Confederate States Army, as Company F, 16th Texas Cavalry, on March 10, 1862.
Retaining his rank as captain, James's Company F, was assigned to the command of fellow Collin County resident, Colonel William F. Fitzhugh. James, who only enlisted for a year, was, along with the 16th Cavalry, initially assigned to the Department of Texas, but was later moved to the Eastern District of Texas in the Trans Mississippi Department, where they were dismounted and sent to Arkansas to fend off encroaching federal forces.
Upon their arrival in the late spring of 1862, they were placed under the command of Major General Thomas Carmichael Hindman, Commander of the Trans-Mississippi Department, where they set out to prevent Union Major General Samuel R. Curtis from moving south and obtaining much needed supplies. On July 7, 1862, after taking a stand at the Cache River, the Confederates forced a Union retreat, but, on their next attack, were stopped after Curtis received reinforcements.
By late October, 1862, James and his men were stationed at Camp Nelson, near Austin, Arkansas, where they were brigaded with four other regiments, the 16th, 17th and 19th Texas Infantry Regiments and Edgar's Texas Battery of Light Artillery, to form the Third Brigade, which was organized and commanded by Colonel George M. Flournoy. Shortly thereafter, the Third was combined with the First, Second and Fourth Brigades to form the Texas Division, which was command by Brigadier General Henry Eustace McCulloch.
On January 1, 1863, Major General John George Walker replaced McCulloch and the Division became known as Walker's Texas Division, which, throughout its existence, was the only division comprised entirely of men from a single state, Texas.
After fulfilling his enlistment term, James was discharged and returned to his family. However, by 1864, he joined another Collin County resident, Colonel Leonidas M. Martin, in the 5th Texas Cavalry Regiment, Partisan Rangers.
James moved to Austin on August 9, 1911, to live in the Texas Confederate Home. Once in the Home, he remained there until his death on April 24, 1912

Birth	18 Aug 1822	Tennessee
Marriage	23 Mar 1876	Collin County, Texas - Mary Virginia "Jennie" Covey
Death	24 Apr 1912	Austin, Travis County, Texas

Spouse	Mary Virginia "Jennie" Covey (1857 - 1893)
Child	Isaac A. Naylor (1877 - 1878)
Child	Sarah Helen Naylor (1879 - 1881)
Child	Lesley Earl Naylor (1887 - 1888)
Child	Joe Foster Naylor (1888 - 1968)
Child	Carl Welch Naylor (1892 - 1958)