Mrs. F. C. Brown (Mary “May” Cummings)
…ary’s body was not recovered. Mary had been born in Ireland on 10 March 1860, and her mother was also named Mary Cummings. She had claimed to be 51 in 1915 but was actually 55. From the The New York Times, Monday, May 10, 1915, page 6: William [Guglielmo Marconi, the inventor of the radio] said yesterday that he lost a friend on the Lusitania, Mrs. M. C. Brown of New York, who had sailed for Liverpool with her daughter, Mrs. A. S. Witherbee and Mr…
