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Listen: The FolkFolk ProgramTwo men standing before the grave of Arabella "Polly" Taylor - Enterprise, Florida
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Polly Taylor was said to be the first white person buried south of St. Augustine, Florida. She was the daughter of Major Cornelius Taylor, a native Virginian and first cousin of U.S. President Zachary Taylor. He moved from St. Augustine in 1841 and operated a steamboat on the St. Johns, as well as a sawmill.
Inscription on the tombstone reads: "Sacred to the memory of our beloved Polly, daughter of C. & C. Taylor, who departed this life of typhus fever September 21, 1842, age 13 years and 13 days.
"Major C. Taylor was the first settler at Enterprise, Florida in 1841 when the country was full of Seminole Indians, and in the midst of their nation there was no white settlement nearer than St. Augustine and left in 1847."
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