Jericho Cemetery is located on Lot 1 of Concession 5, Charlotteville Township, at Jericho, a T-intersection north of St. Williams, south of Silver Hill. It is immediately east (across the road) of Dad's & Buck's Auto Repairs, which provided much of the unique audio in this video. The audio concludes with a few bars of The Band's Caves of Jericho from that group's 1993 Jericho CD.

The OGS/Norfolk Branch's CD of Names in Norfolk Cemeteries, lists 257 names on Jericho Cemetery stones, as of 2003. This cemetery is still in use. 

Many of the surviving historic stones are still quite readable. Only a few could not be fully transcribed with little effort.  Although several stones can be transcribed by pausing the playback of our video when appropriate, our video is meant only as an overview of the cemetery itself, not as an alternative resource to cemetery stone transcriptions.

When it comes to cemetery transcriptions, older is frequently better. Volunteer transcribers from the Norfolk Historical Society transcribed this cemetery in the 1960s. A copy of that transcription is on file and available for viewing in the Reading Room of the Norfolk Heritage Centre (www.norfolklore.com).

The Norfolk Branch of the Ontario Genealogy Society subsequently transcribed this cemetery over a decade later. Their transcription is available for sale from their web site:
Ontario Genealogy Society/Norfolk Branch. (See their "Published Resources" web page.)

Our videos are merely sneak peeks -- not exhaustive treatments -- of their subject. Hopefully they will provide a touch of perspective for those who live at a distance until they can visit.

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