Jericho Cemetery
N 35° 10.159 W 100° 54.149
14S E 326742 N 3893477
The historic marker for the Jericho Cemetery, all that remains of this vanished town.
Waymark Code: WMKPPM
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 05/12/2014
Views: 10
This historic marker is located along the TX SH 70, a few miles south of the point where the SH 70 stops following the I-40 and turns south. This maker is about all that remains of this small settlement in the dusty Texas Panhandle.
Marker Number: 12613
Marker Text:
(1 mile west)
Settlement of this area of Donley County began in the late 19th century, before the town of Jericho was founded as a station on the Chicago, Rock Island and Gulf rail line about 1902. Early community burials took place in the pasture near this site, and the graveyard eventually was set aside in the county deed records. The first documented burial is that of Mattie Ray (1850-1895), and the second is that of seven-month-old Garil Prest Schaffer, who died in 1897. Others buried in the Jericho Cemetery include victims of smallpox and influenza epidemics, military veterans and area pioneers. (2001)
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