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Brother Jonathan Berkley

circa December 1793 (computed from age at death) – 17 November 1856

Died 17 November 1856 in the Quimahoning district — elder of the Church of the Brethren, from The Gospel Visitor, January 1857

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At-a-glance facts

Record type

Obituary

Date of death

17 November 1856

Date of birth

circa December 1793 (computed from age at death)

Age at death

62 y. and 11 m.

Place of death

DIED in Quimahoning district of same co.

Inscription transcription

Obituary from The Gospel Visitor January 1857 page 32

DIED in Quimahoning district of same co. Nov. 17, Brother JONATHAN BERKLEY, the worthy elder of that district, aged 62 y. and 11 m. leaving behind a mourning widow and 10 children. Text: Phil. 1 : 21.

Obvious spelling slips in the submitted transcription have been corrected (the doubled "the" in the source line). Sources differ on the death year: our archive's index entry for this record reads "Jonathan Berkley, 1795 - 1857", but the obituary appeared in the January 1857 issue of The Gospel Visitor, which could not report a 17 November 1857 death — the death was therefore 17 November 1856, unless the issue date is itself wrong. Both readings are preserved; this record follows 1856. "Of same co." refers to a preceding entry in the original obituary column that is not included in the extract preserved here, so the county is not stated; the Quimahoning (Quemahoning) district is associated with Somerset County, Pennsylvania, but that is not stated in the text.

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Source & citation

Source type
Transcription only
Provenance
From the Ancestors at Rest archive — founded 2004 by Brian and substantially built out across two decades by Lorine McGinnis Schulze of Olive Tree Genealogy.
Transcribed by
Ancestors at Rest archive — original contributor not recorded.
Last verified
2026-07-06
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Transcription only — obituary text transcribed from The Gospel Visitor; no photograph in this record

Citation: Obituary of Brother Jonathan Berkley, elder of the Quimahoning district of the Church of the Brethren, who died 17 November aged 62 years and 11 months, from The Gospel Visitor, January 1857, page 32. Preserved in the Ancestors at Rest archive. (https://ancestorsatrest.com/records/obituaries/berkley-jonathan-1856/ : accessed [your access date]).

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