JERICHO FRIENDS MEETING AND ITS COMMUNITY Randolph County, Indiana Names in this biography are: Peacock, Joy, Hollingsworth, Wright, Elliott, Hill, Cox, Thomas, Benson, Beeson, Abram Peacock Abram Peacock (son of John and Patience) married first Margaret Elliott on April 10, 1782, (Contentnea MM. North Carolina); married Anna Joy next, the daughter of Reuben and Anna, March 29, 1800; and married, third, Rachel Hollingsworth, a widow, the daughter of Joseph and Charity Wright on March 21, 1821. He had seven children by the first marriage and two by the second. There is no record that any of these children by the first marriage lived at Jericho, excepting Achsah, wife of Henry Hill, and Amos who is mentioned separately. The two children by the second marriage came with him and became Jericho folks. There is reason to believe that Abram Peacock was a friend of Jeremiah Cox before Cox left North Carolina in 1805, and that Jeremiah was influential in his decision to come to Indiana. Certain it is that Abram and the three families who came with him stopped a year in Wayne County, where Abram took land now occupied by the Union Station of Richmond: and in the immediate neighborhood where Cox had lived for some dozen years or more. Also the two men took lands in Randolph, which were adjacent. Cox's later arrival in the Jericho neighborhood is explained by his greater financial involvement in Richmond, due to his longer residence. It is said that Anna Joy Peacock walked almost the whole way from North Carolina and became quite ill in Cincinatti on the journey. She died (10-1-1818) within six months of the arrival at Jericho and was perhaps the first to be buried in the old burying ground laid out on Abram's land. (See map Fig. 1). Abram Peacock gave the land for the establishment of the first Friends Meeting at Jericho, as well as for the first burying-ground. He also established a mill on the Owl Creek, as shown on the map. Whether or not this mill was first used for grinding grist is not known. It is certain that it later became a sawmill. Abram Peacock died at an unknown date, variously estimated as from 1832 (Heiss), 1833 (Asenath Thomas), to 1835, court records in connection with the estate of Jeremiah Cox. He was buried in the old Jericho burying-ground. It is stated (Harry Peacock) that he walked to White River Meeting and was taken violently ill there with a colic. He was carried to the home of a friend named Benson (possibly Beeson, no Benson record this early) where he died. Thus passed the most prominent of the first four settlers of the Jericho Community, the father of the Jericho Meeting and School.