Career
Born on November 14, 1843, in Thompsonville, New York, Naylor was still living in that state when he joined the Navy. He served during the Civil War as a landsman on the United States Ship Oneida. At the Battle of Mobile Bay on August 5, 1864, he supplied gunpowder to one of his ship"s Parrott rifles as a powder boy.
When his passing box, used to protect the powder as it was being carried, was shot from his hands and fell overboard into a small boat of the United States Ship Galena, Naylor retrieved the box and resumed his duties.
Naylor died on February 7, 1926, at age 82 and was buried at River Bend Cemetery in Westerly, Rhode Island.
