2 Isreal Berkleys 1833-1889
It seems there are 2 Isreal Berkleys 1833 to 1889 the 1st is well documented son of Jacob and Margaret Berkley, married Elizabeth Miller in Berkley Springs Summit Co Pa 1854 marriage documented
is available in ancestry.co early Pennsylvania marriages 1852-1854 Elizabeth died May 11 1855 she was 23 she is interred in Sarah Berkley Farm Cemetery Summit Co a child Elizabeth was born 1855in 1860 Isreal and Elizabeth then 5 are living in Summit Somerset Co with Jacob and Margaret in 1880 Isreal and his second wife Anne Francis are in Upper Yoder Cambria Co with 8 children.
The second Isreal is hard to find in the census but it seems he did marry Anne Elizabeth Lint and the had 12 children all born in Johnstown as shown in someones family tree he also was born in 1833 and died 1889 trying to find an Isreal Berkley in Cambria Co in 1850 thru 1870 doesn’t happen but it is believed all 12 children were born there, There is also an 1860 census that shows Isreal Berkley with a family of Barkleys in Summit Co an in 1880 there is an Isreal Barkley with Anna Elizabeth and children in Upper Yoder Cambria Co
Apparently both Isreal’s had a father named Jacob, Both Jacobs were born and died at the same time born May 13 1806 and died May 25 1884 both 78 yrs and 11 days.
One Jacob married Rebecca Shrock the other married Margaret Erwin
I think this is a very remarkable coincidence that both fathers and sons had another person of the same name born and died in the same year.
The 1st Isreal can be found 1850 thru 1880 in ancestry.com the second is not found as Berkley but there is an Isreal Barkley
Any body elsr know anything about this.