The Taylor Methodist Episcopal congregation built Taylor Township's first church in 1882 on land donated by Marlin H.H. and Rachel Coan for a church and cemetery. Platted in 1884, the cemetery began as the church's burial ground, and remains dating from as early as the 1840s were moved there from private family cemeteries. In 1923 it became West Mound Cemetery, named for the large sand hill on which it stood. Among its 3,200 graves are the remains of Peter Coan, Taylor's first landowner, and 114 burials dating from the nineteenth century.