TAYLOR GRAVESITE, Enterprise, Volusia County, Florida

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This is the headstone of Mary Arabella (Polly) Taylor eldest daughter of Major Cornelius and
Catherine Taylor the oldest known white burial south of St. Augustine, Fla.  It is said that 
Major Taylor gave Enterprise its name about 1841 when he squatted the land then in Mosquito 
County.  Major Taylor was the first settler of Enterprise coming from the panhandle of West 
Virginia where he was born in 1785.  After Polly's death he moved to Texas and drowned on a 
trip enroute from there by ship to California.  The headstone is on private property being 
well taken care of and I was asked not to disclose the location.  The headstone was brought 
in by oxcart from St. Augustine. 

Information was provided to me from Sylvia Hardin of Enterprise.
 
Sacred
To the memory of
Our Beloved
Polly
Daughter of C. & C. Taylor
Who departed this life
of typhus fever
September 21st 1842
Aged 13 years and 13 days