Randolph County, Indiana
Wayne Township
Jericho Burial Grounds
Located on the corner of County Road 100 South and 400 East. This is an Old Quaker cemetery, started very early. Jericho is named for Jeremiah Cox who came here after helping found Richmond, and deciding it was too populated.Wayne Township
Jericho Burial Grounds
Sexton: Donald Peacock (765) 584-8743
Tucker's History Page 125
Jericho (Wayne Township, Section 30, Town 20, Range 15).
Rachel Buckingham, September 7, 1844, 70 years.
Joshua Buckingham, October 15, 1854, 85 years.
Mary, wife of Benoni Hill, May 12, 1856, 67 years.
Benoni Hill, august 20, 1870, 82 years.
Hannah, wife of Thomas Wells, September 18, 1862, 64 years.
William Nixon, November 13, 1865, 84 years.
Hannah, wife of Simon Cox, October 11, 1865, 54 years.
Amos Peacock, July 24, 1850, 63 years.
Hannah, wife of Amos Peacock, September 8, 1867, 74 years.
Benjamin Schooley, May 24, 1867, 78 years.
Aaron K. Schooley, November 12, 1868, 77 years.
John J. Peacock, June 22, 1868, 58 years.
John Price, January 9, 1869, 65 years.
Mariam Cox, wife of Joshua Cox, December 24, 1872, 74 years.
Solomon Hinshaw, February 2, 1872, 55 years.
William B. Cox, April 13, 1873, 72 years.
Henry Hill, May 2, 1874, 83 years.
Avis (Woodard) Hill, August 15, 1875, 79 years.
Amy, wife of Thomas North, April 22, 1875, 76 years.
Thomas North, June 8, 1878, 77 years.
Margaret, wife of William B. Cox, July 20, 1876, 75 years.
Hannah, wife of James Smith, December 1, 1877, 75 years.
Jericho is an old burial-ground. Very many graves have only rough, unmarked stones. Some have initials, with neither name, age or date. Is it too late, even yet, to supply the lack and betoken the resting-places of the dead, sacred to affection?
It is surely something remarkable that a people like the Friends, so kind, so loving, so affectionate, so full of veneration for the departed dear ones, so penetrated with sympathy for the afflicted, should have, in ages past, felt it incumbent upon them to deny to their worthy and lamented dead a fitting public memorial at the spot of their burial, that the visitors to the sacred inclosure, through generations long to come, may feel their hearts bound as by a solemn and indissoluble tie to the souls of all the noble and worthy dead that have fallen asleep in Jesus since first the forest wilderness began to become the peaceful abode of civilized Christian men and women.
And will they not be convinced at length that the gentle and tender spirit of Christian love by no means forbids, but on the other hand, requires and commands that the memory of the lamented and beloved dead shall be kept perpetually alive, not merely in the secret heart of the mourning soul and bereaved comrades left behind, but also by suitable tokens, not costly and for vain show and display, but modest and appropriate, that future times may learn where lie the mortal remains of those who were, during their lives, honored and beloved.
Last Name
| First Name
| Identification
| Birth Date
| Death Date
| COX
| Jeremiah
| son of Benjamin & Martha
| 3-22-1763
| c. 1829
| COX
| Amy (Weirman)
| wife of Joshua Cox Sr.
| 1765
| c. 1850
| GRAY
| ______?
| Child of Absolom & Margery
| XXXX
| c. 1826
| HILL
| Aaron
| son of Aaron & Miriam
| 5-4-1752
| 8-26-1835
|
HILL
|
Achsah (Peacock)
|
1st wife of Henry Hill
|
1-2-1793
|
2-1-1830
|
HILL
|
Achsah (Thomas)
|
2nd wife of Henry Hill
|
6-16-1800
|
9-29-1835
|
LYLE
|
David
|
2nd wife was Amy Cox
|
1-2-1792
|
8-9-1851
|
MANOR
|
Rebecca
|
daughter of William Roads & Ann
|
XXXX
|
c. 1825
| PEACOCK
| Anna (Joy)
| 2nd wife of Abram Peacock
| 1762
| 10-1-1818
| PEACOCK
|
Abram
|
son of John & Patience
|
c.1762
|
c. 1832
|
PEACOCK
|
Benjamin
|
son of John Joy & Ruth
|
4-22-1834
|
d. Young
|
PEACOCK
|
Gulielma
|
daughter of William & Mary
|
5-2-1843
|
5-6-1859
|
PEACOCK
|
Abram
|
son of Amos & Hannah
|
7-17-1829
|
1839
|
PEACOCK
|
Ruth (Cox)
|
1st wife of John Joy Peacock
|
12-13-1804
|
2-5-1835
|
PEACOCK
|
Matilda
| daughter of Amos & Hannah
| 3-21-1821
| 1830
| RHOADS
| Ann
| Mother-in-law to Benjamin Cox (Probable)
| c. 1750
| 1840-ante
| THOMAS
| Anna *
| daughter of George & Asenath
| 5-2-1843
| 5-6-1859
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* Note: Later (c. 1900) disinterred and reburied in present Burying-ground.
Contributed By: Donald Peacock
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