Margaret’s husband Randy Naylor is also an American soldier, a Vietnam era vet, a Gulf War veteran, and a disabled vet. He was deployed on a secret mission to Korea during the “Ax slaying” incident during the 1980s where he was arrested/detained on the night of his arrival by over-zealous military police who had not been briefed/advised of his mission. Randy has also been deployed to Diego Garcia, Korea, Australia, the Philippines, and Saudi Arabia during the course of his military service. Margaret and Randy have been stationed at military bases in Virginia, Okinawa, Indiana, Guam, and Texas. While stationed at Guam and skin diving on Saipan, Randy was recalled from his vacation to refuel Air Force

One due to his specialized training in fuels management and distribution. Then during the Gulf War he was assigned to a bare base operation in Saudi Arabia during Desert Storm. Part of the time he had to perform his duties wearing a gas mask and protective chemical warfare gear while enemy missiles passed overhead.

Margaret started writing when she was about eleven years old when she wrote a poem for her mother for Mother’s Day. That poem is included in book three of the series. Then in 1986, Margaret wrote a novel entitled “Whither Thou Goest” a fictional account based on her parents’ lives. The novel was a Mother’s Day present to comfort her parents after the accidental death of their son, Margaret’s older brother. She has been writing off and on for the last forty plus years, but some of what she wrote was destroyed during military moves or thrown away on obsolete computers or floppy disks. In 2001, she wrote the short story entitled “Armageddon” which is included in book one “Written in the Stars – The Fate of America.”

Since retiring in December 2021, Margaret has been writing pretty consistently. She has published four books through Covenant Books in the last five years and they are currently in the process of publishing book five. Margaret is presently writing book six which should be available in 2027. Book one is entitled “Written in the Stars – The Fate of America”; Book two is “Hope of the Nations”; Book three “Beulah Land”; and Book four “United We Stand.” Book five “In God We Trust” should be available to the public about October 2026 and book six “Sweet Land of Liberty” is currently being written with a projected publication date in 2027. Her book covers are designed to show the cost of freedom (Freedom is not free), the cost of maintaining liberty and justice for all, and the cost of redemption from sin by God Almighty. In addition, they highlight the Second Coming of Christ and show America’s (and the worlds) need of a Savior, the Prince of Peace as we all face terrorism, tribulation, sorrow, and wars and rumors of war throughout the world during these last days.

Most of the short stories or chapters are complete in and of themselves but are also integrated with or interrelated to other stories and other books in the series. All of these books are based on American history and ideals, patriotism, the Judeo-Christian faith, Bible prophecy, and the values of God, family, and country on which Mrs. Naylor grew up. They describe historical and fictional events through a multi-generational perspective as recounted by a young soldier who was killed at Bunker Hill during the early days of the American Revolution. He was granted permission by God to tell America’s story from pre-Revolutionary War days till the present and the coming millennial reign of Christ (past, present, and future). This is that story. It is based at least in part on the history of the Parker family and other early patriot settlers and their extended families both historic and fictional.

Margaret is descended from a long line of American patriots. Her ancestors on her father’s side, the Parker family, came to America from England in the 1590s, just one hundred years after Columbus. They helped establish the Jamestown colony in Virginia in 1607; then more Parkers came to Jamestown by ship from England in 1630. The Parkers have served in every major war that the United States has ever participated in including the Revolutionary War, American Civil War, and both World Wars. Margaret herself and her husband Randy served during the Vietnam War and the Gulf War.

James, John, and Charles Parker, the three sons of Widow Parker, served in the Revolutionary War. One son was killed in battle, one died as a prisoner of war (POW), and one survived to continue the Parker line of descent. Other Parker ancestors include William, Thomas, Bartholomew, and a slew of others. The Parkers were named after kings and queens of England including William the Conqueror, King Charles I, King James, Queen Victoria, and Queen Elizabeth. Margaret was named after Princess Margaret and Princess Anne. Biblical names also run throughout their ancestral line including Matthew, Mark or John Mark, Luke, John, Stephen, Paul or Paula, Elizabeth, Mary, Martha, Deborah, Ruth, Ruby, Pearl, and Eve or Edith.

After the attack on Pearl Harbor when America entered World War II, Margaret’s father Johnnie Parker and two of his brothers James “Jimmy” and Charles “Charlie” signed up for the draft. John was not selected due to health reasons, but his brothers Jimmy and Charlie both fought in WWII. Their mother (Margaret’s paternal grandmother) Edith Drummond Parker is a direct descendant of William Drummond, the first king-appointed colonial governor of North Carolina who served from 1664 to 1667.

On her mother’s side, the Godwin family and the Lacks family probably came to the Unites States in the late 1600s or early 1700s. The Lacks were a prominent family in the Southern United States during the 1800s. Margaret’s mother Gertrude Godwin Parker trained as a nurse during WWII with the intention of serving in the United States Army nursing corps once she completed training as a cadet. However, she was recalled home due to her parent’s failing health. As she was the youngest of five siblings all of whom were active duty military or employed in civilian war jobs, she was dismissed from the Army nursing corps to attend to her family’s health concerns/needs. Since she was in the nurse’s corps a little less than six months, she was not considered a WWII veteran.

Margaret’s paternal great-grandfather and several of her great-uncles served in the American Civil War on the side of the Confederacy and other relatives served on the side of the Union Army. Some of Margaret’s ancestors were plantation owners or landholders who owned slaves. It is believed that this union of slave owners and slaves may have resulted in a bi-racial branch of the Parker family. In 1942 just after Pearl Harbor, a Black man named Johnnie Parker and Margaret’s father Johnnie Parker both signed up for the draft for WWII in Cullman, Alabama on the same day, at the same time, at the same location. Johnnie Parker, Black man stood six feet one inch tall and weighed just over two hundred pounds. Margaret’s father Johnnie Parker, white man, stood only five feet seven inches and weighed

less than one hundred and seventy pounds. Johnnie Parker the Black man was drafted into the army. Johnnie Parker the white man was not.

Additionally, a Parker ancestor is believed to have married a Creek Indian maiden in Alabama or Florida in the early 1700s. Thus the Parkers are a multi-racial group which has expanded throughout all fifty states of the United States. There are cities and counties named after them like Parker County, Texas. There are also historic sites like Parker’s Ferry, South Carolina which was the location of a major Revolutionary War battle and Fort Parker, Texas which is known for the Fort Parker Indian massacre during the Texas fight for independence from Mexico.

It is also rumored that the Parker family is descended from King Charles I of England and his liaison with an English barmaid in the 1600s. They are also reputed to be related to the English-Irish kings of Scotland and Ireland especially through the Godwin and possibly Drummond lines of descent.

The Parkers are mainly of English, Irish, and Scottish descent with a little Scandinavian or Norwegian/Viking blood thrown in for good measure. According to speculation on Ancestry.com about twenty years ago, the Parkers may have immigrated from the Roman Empire to Great Britain some one thousand or so years ago. Before that, Ancestry suggested that the Parkers may have lived in the part of the Grecian Empire that was later conquered by Rome. Whatever the reality, Margaret believes that everyone has a history dating back to Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden and she is very proud of her American heritage.