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Note: From The Port Jervis Union, Friday, June 15, 1906, Page 3, Col. 6:
" HARMON B. TWICHELL - Harmon B. Twichell died at the home of his son, Horace E. Twichell, at Lackawaxen, at three o'clock Thursday morning, aged 78 years.
He had been in poor health for a long time, and he was found dead in bed. A full obituary notice will be given in Saturday's Union. "
Obituary of Harmon Brink Twichell, The Port Jervis Union, Wednesday, June 20, 1906, Page 3, Col. 4:
" HARMON BRINK TWICHELL - LACKAWAXEN, JUNE 19 -- After a long and useful life almost all lived in Sullivan county, Harmon B. Twichell died June 14, 1906.
He was of Holland Dutch descent, and was born in Luzerne county, Pa., Sept. 15, 1828. Much of his boyhood was spent in Deckertown, N.J., but later with his parents, Horace and Martha Havens Twichell, he came to Lackawaxen, Pa. Here, in early manhood, he bought a tract of woodland overlooking the Delaware. Here he cleared a farm and continued to live for nearly 50 years.
More than 10 years ago he united with the Baptist Church, from which his body was borne to the grave by life-long friends and neighbor
Mr. Twichell's truthfulness and honesty never were questioned. His word was a law of his life. He was a good neighbor and a kind friend. In trouble he gave sympathy and tried to give asistance. His life was truly a brave and beautiful one. It is thought that it concluded without leaving an enemy and no unkind words or deeds to cloud the memory of i
Four years ago he sold all and went to live with his son, John, at Barryville.
In his usual health a few days before the change came, he went, with his companion of more than half a century, back to the scenes of life-long service.
His son, Horace, has built a house on part of the old place and there they came to look out once more upon that sternness that had crumbled before his courage into soft and mellow soil. He ate a hearty supper and seemed unusually bright and cheerful, joined his eldest grandchild, Helen, in singing some of the sweet old hymns that had helped to time his years into a life-song, then said his prayers and went to sleep. In the morning, upon failing to answer his old companion's voice to rise, she walked around to the other side to find that sometime in the night, with his head pillowed upon his clasped hands, he had been lulled into the larger life. Thus, seemingly as beautiful as was the long and useful life, as beautiful and more were the closing scenes. In the hush of the night, borne out on the waves of slumber, his life bark passed through the battlements of eternal blessing and entered the harbor of Heaven, his home forevermore.
He is survived by the aged widow, four sons and one daughter by adoption. They are: Horace E., of Lackawaxen, Pa.; John Z. of Barryville, N.Y.; Lewis B., of Philadelphia; William S. of Paterson, N.J., and Senia, wife of L.A. Bewfoe, of Hornellsville, N.Y. "
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