James Eber Twaddell, 96, died Monday at his home 337 SE 79th Avenue.
Mr. Twaddell was born in Mercer County, Missouri, March 15, 1853. When he was 12 his parents brought him over the Oregon Trail to Union County. In 1876 he moved to Linn County near Lebanon and there, on May 10, 1878 he married Maria Hare.
The family moved to Portland in 1904 when Mr. Twaddell built the house in Montavilla where he lived thereafter. Mrs. Twaddell died in 1940.
Surviving are one son Ivan, in Portland; two nephews, George and Stephen Allingham in Portland, and a niece Mrs. Ella Meyer in Clarkston, Wash.
Funeral service will be at 2pm Wednesday in Gable’s Sunrise chapel. Vault interment will be in Lincoln Memorial Cemetery.
Contributed by: Tami Sherrill
Note: Obituary, Sept 1949, for James E. Twaddell, son of John and Adaline (Scott) Twaddell