When Israel Clore was born in 1840, in Indiana, United States, his father, Uriel Clore, was 26 and his mother, Dorothy Ann Cosby, was 20. He married Margaret A. Stonebraker on 29 November 1862, in Parke, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Howard Township, Parke, Indiana, United States in 1860 and Brown Township, Montgomery, Indiana, United States in 1870. He died on 24 October 1881, in Wallace, Jackson Township, Fountain, Indiana, United States, at the age of 41, and was buried in Wallace, Jackson Township, Fountain, Indiana, United States.