The Taylor Cemetery
John Taylor (1773-1868), his wife Margaret Hawthorne and seven children emigrated from Uttoxeter, Staffordshire in 1821. In 1839, three sons, John, Thomas and George, purchased this land from Samuel Sinclair (1767-1852) except for a portion Sinclair gave to the Primitive Methodist Connexion in 1851. The Taylors gave the Connexion a brick church in 1859. The family operated three paper mills and a brick mill in the Don Valley, where they had considerable landholdings and were responsible for much of the development of East York in the nineteenth century.
Plaque via Alan L. Brown's site Toronto Plaques. Full page here.