Charley Jodwell
Burial Details
Obituaries
Eagle Valley Enterprise page 1 - January 28, 1949
CHARLEY JODWELL DIED IN EAGLE SATURDAY
Charley Jodwell, for many years a resident of Eagle, died early Saturday morning and was buried in Gypsum Tuesday afternoon. Funeral services were conducted at the Eagle Methodist church by Rev. Paul Shields, and appropiate music was sung in duet by Wm. Stanley and Marion Baker, accompanied by Mrs. Shields. Mr. Jodwell was a well known figure around Eagle, during the summer time doing ranch work and in the winter months working in Sharp’s Pool Hall and a few years ago he built the small home now owned by the Bernard Ginthers. His past is like a page taken from present day history in Europe. He was one of four children and born in Lithuania on March 4, 1869. From the time he was 16 until the time he reached manhood he led a life of slavery, for when he was 16 he was taken from his family to Odessa, Russia. That was the last of family connections for the young Lithuanian boy, for he never heard of his parents again. While he was working in a hotel in Odessa he found away to the united States and freedom, through a Jewish person whose profession it was to smuggle slaves across the border into Germany. With older refugees, Mr. Jodwell made the border trip by night and from Hamburg, Germany sailed to America, his first employment in the new world was in Chicago. and from there to Alaska to wont in the mines then back to the states to Anaconda, Montana, where he contracted miner's consumption. His poor health brought him to Colorado and to Eagle. Within the past year Mr. Jodwell had been able finally to obtain complete and necessary data concerning his past and transportation over to this country in order that he could become naturalized citizen.
