Biography

Ann Draper and John Taylor were married 17 November 1846 in Perth (Marriage Registration 194/1846, Perth) and proceeded to create a large family. Ann died on 19 January 1884 aged about 54 years. John Taylor was concerned that no cemetery was available for burials in the area and so the family donated the land, situated on a hill overlooking the small community of Arthur River, where the church and graveyard are now established. The Taylor's child, whose name has not been identified, was aged about 9 years when she died in the late 1870s. She is buried on the Taylor property named Mt Pleasant (now "Kokarrup", owned by Baton Hatherly). A stone monument with plaque is on "Kokarrup" across the Albany Highway from St Paul's Church.