Edward Ralph Naylor and Cornelia Myers

Edward Ralph Naylor was born on 7 Aug 1813 in Romney, Hampshire County, Virginia (now West Virginia).  He was the oldest of four children of William Naylor and Susan McGuire.  He also had four older half siblings, the children of William and Nancy Sanford.

William's father died in 1837 and Edward moved to Missouri along with a number of his siblings.

There he met Cornelia Myers the daughter of Jacob Francis Myers and Elizabeth.  Elizabeth brought her  daughter to Missouri after the death of her husband in Virginia.  Cornelia and Edward were married on 9 Sep 1841.

In 1850 the family is living in District 94 in Shelby County, Missouri. Besides Edward and Cornelia, there are four children and Cornelia's mother Elizabeth Myers. Slave schedules for the district also show one 8 year old male slave.  By 1856 there were two additional children.

Then tradgedy struck.  It was most likely cholera that took five year old Gilbert in July of 1856.  Edward's death followed on 18th August.

Edward left a good estate for his wife and children.  With no will the property passed mainly to his wife.  Those items that were sold netted Cornelia over $1000, a goodly sum in the years before the Civil War.

Cornelia continued farming the land for the next six years. Millicent, Edward's unmarried sister, moved in to help.  Then in 1862 Cornelia became the third wife of Matison Vanosdol.  They had two children, Craig born in 1863 and Mattie born in 1865.  In 1877 tragedy struck again, both Craig and Mattie died within a month of each other.

At this time Cornelia left the home she had shared with Matison.  The 1880 Census finds her in the home of her son James Monroe Naylor. When James moved to Colorado permanently she moved in with another son John Meyer Naylor.  This is where she was living when she died at the age of 76 in 1896.

Cornelia is buried  in Kings Graveyard near Pelvna, with the Vanosdols, including Craig and Mattie.  Edward is buried in the Naylor Cemetery on the old homestead in Bethel township along with son Gilbert.

The Children of Edward Ralph Naylor and Cornelia Myers

1. Susan McGuire  1842 MO - 1930 NM m. James Redd Brawner
2. William  
3. John Monroe  1846 MO - 1933 MO
4. Edward Ralph 1849 MO - 1925
5. Gilbert Francis 1851 MO - 1856 MO
6. James Monroe 1854 MO - 1935 CO