The Rowe Family Jericho Friends Meeting And Its Community Randolph County, Indiana Surnames are: Rowe, Van Sickle, Row, Milligan, The  Rowes                     The Rowe family, as known at Jericho, descended from Henry Rowe and his wife, Maria(Van Sickle) Rowe. Earliest records of Randolph County marriages for this family give the spelling of the name as Row.   In the year 1862, Henry Row and his family came to Randolph County in a covered wagon from Perry County, Ohio. He did not acquire land till the year 1868 when he purchased eighty acres in S24 R14E, at about the location of the Dora Milligan farm. Here he continued to live till 1892, the year of his death as well as that of his wife.  ThoughHenry Row and his wife were members of the Christian Church and their funerals were conducted by that church of Harrisville, both are buried in the Jericho burying-ground.  Henry and Maria had twelve children as follows: George,Oliver, Albert, Francis M., Amanda, Andeline, Celia A., Ella, John, Harvey, Rachel,Harry, and Elmira. Many of these children married folks of the Jericho neighborhood,and the family has many descendants in and around Jericho.