KLEIN, Jacob, a wealthy resident of Amity Twp., this county, died during the night of December 29th, aged 80 years. (1-3-1815ed.)
age 80/7/25
There are some confusing facts on Jacob as presented in some family trees in ancestry.com Some of his children are shown born and died in Mifflinburg, Union, Pa. and some in Amity, Berks, Pa. His wife, named as Anna Maria Bricke is also shown as died in Mifflinburg in 1816, only two years after his death. Researchers state that after Jacob's death, at age 70, she left her home and other family to live with son Jacob in Mifflinburg, where she died in 1816. See memorial 10518108. The distance from Berks to Union County is about 90 miles, then mostly wilderness, inhabited with native Americans. Jacob's will mentions a wife but not her name, and children John, Jacob, George, Mary w/o John Lutz Shearer, Charles, David, Abraham and Catharine w/o John Bertolet..
The tombstone of Jacob Kline of Mifflinburg has a birth of Jan 6 1765. There are babtism records for a son Jacob to Jacob and Anna Maria of Amity showing a birth of Jul 3 1765.
Memorial 11399807
KLEIN, Jacob, a wealthy resident of Amity Twp., this county, died during the night of December 29th, aged 80 years. (1-3-1815ed.)
age 80/7/25
There are some confusing facts on Jacob as presented in some family trees in ancestry.com Some of his children are shown born and died in Mifflinburg, Union, Pa. and some in Amity, Berks, Pa. His wife, named as Anna Maria Bricke is also shown as died in Mifflinburg in 1816, only two years after his death. Researchers state that after Jacob's death, at age 70, she left her home and other family to live with son Jacob in Mifflinburg, where she died in 1816. See memorial 10518108. The distance from Berks to Union County is about 90 miles, then mostly wilderness, inhabited with native Americans. Jacob's will mentions a wife but not her name, and children John, Jacob, George, Mary w/o John Lutz Shearer, Charles, David, Abraham and Catharine w/o John Bertolet..
The tombstone of Jacob Kline of Mifflinburg has a birth of Jan 6 1765. There are babtism records for a son Jacob to Jacob and Anna Maria of Amity showing a birth of Jul 3 1765.
Memorial 11399807