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James
Edward
Twitty
Born in Buena Vista, Rockbridge, Virginia, United States
Son of Ambrose Twitty
and Cornelia Elizabeth (Reid) Twitty
Brother of
Barbara Ann (Twitty) Ivey and Richard Arnold Twitty
Husband of
Berdie (Liggins) Twitty
— married
22 Dec 1951 (to 1962) in Buena Vista, Rockbridge, Virginia, United States
[children unknown]
Died
at age 30
in At Sea, Pacific Ocean between Guam and Philippines
Profile last modified
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* James was on an airplane with ninety-two other American *
* military personnel on the way to a secret mission in Vietnam *
* when Flying Tiger Line Flight 739 was lost in the Pacific Ocean *
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Biography
Space:Army Names Plane Victims
- S-Sgt. James E. Twitty, husband of Mrs. Berdie F. Twitty, 640 Poly Place, Apt. 6E, Brooklyn, N.Y. Anderson Herald
Staff Sgt U.S. Army, Signal Corps, Army Pictorial Center
James—the son of Ambrose Twitty (1913-1952) and Cornelia Elizabeth (Reid) Twitty (1914-)—was born in Virginia in 1932.
James Edward enlisted in the U.S. Army three times:
- 8 September 1950, discharged 7 September 1953, Honorable
- 8 September 1953, discharged 7 September 1957; service in Japan, Honorable
- 8 September 1957, died 16 March 1962, Declared Missing
He married Berdie Liggins in 1951 in Virginia. Berdie was living at 640 Ply Place Apt 6E, Brooklyn, New York, when she applied for a military veterans headstone.
Marriage
- Name: Berdie Frances Liggins
- Gender: Female
- Race: Black
- Age: 21
- Birth Date: abt 1930
- Marriage Registration Place: Rockbridge, Virginia, USA
- Marriage Date: 22 Dec 1951
- Marriage Place: Buena Vista, Virginia, USA
- Father: Frank Liggins
- Mother: Reva Gills
- Spouse: James Edward Twitty[1]
Siblings:
- James, b. 1932
- Barbara Ann, b. 1930
- Gloria L, b. 1940
- Richard Arnold, b. 1941
Cenotaph
- Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia.
Sources
- ↑ Virginia, U.S., Marriage Records, 1936-2014 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015. Marriage Record
- U.S., Headstone Applications for Military Veterans, 1925-1970 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012. Headstone Application 22:53, 7 May 2021 (UTC)
- Find a Grave, database and images (www.findagrave.com/memorial/22513189/james-edward-twitty : accessed 07 May 2021), memorial page for SFC James Edward Twitty (3 Mar 1932–16 Mar 1962), Find A Grave: Memorial #22513189, citing Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Arlington County, Virginia, USA; Maintained by Hope (contributor 46790939).
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