See also

Family of Hyman R. BERKMAN and Beila Leah "Lena" PEARLSTINE

Husband: Hyman R. BERKMAN

  • Name:

  • Hyman R. BERKMAN

  • Sex:

  • Male

  • Father:

  • -

  • Mother:

  • -

  • Birth:

  • c. 1842

  •  

  • Death:

  •  

  • Charleston, SC

Wife: Beila Leah "Lena" PEARLSTINE

Child 1: Samuel BERKMAN

Child 2: Jacob BERKMAN

  • Name:

  • Jacob BERKMAN

  • Sex:

  • Male

  • Spouse:

  • Gertrude ZACHARIS (1867-1959)

  • Birth:

  • May 29, 1867

  • Charleston, SC

  • Death:

  • Apr 2, 1927 (age 59)

  • Charleston, SC

  • Burial:

  • Apr, 1927

  • Magnolia, Charleston, SC

Child 3: Agnes BERKMAN

  • Name:

  • Agnes BERKMAN

  • Sex:

  • Female

  • Birth:

  • c. 1868

  • Charleston, SC

  • Death:

  •  

  •  

Child 4: Theodore BERKMAN

  • Name:

  • Theodore BERKMAN

  • Sex:

  • Male

  • Birth:

  • 1870

  •  

  • Death:

  •  

  •  

Note on Wife: Beila Leah "Lena" PEARLSTINE

Translation of gravemarker: A straight and pure woman who feared G-d

and did good deeds all the days of her life for the benefit of her

city"

Sailed to Charleston, SC in December 1856 via New Ofleans. Ship sailed

from Liverpool, England. En route, two sisters were poisoned and died

at sea. Diary available, an edited version printed in "America, Sweet

Land of Liberty" entitled Voyage to America: eleven weeks on a "sail

ship".