History, Passenger & Crew Biographies, and Lusitania Facts
…ork as a machinist. The couple had two children, Doris Florence, born in 1906, and Reginald, born in 1914 or 1915. Florence’s father, John Henry, died in 1914, and his widow and her mother, Elizabeth Bull, went to Hamilton to visit her daughter and grandchildren. Elizabeth decided to return to England in the Spring of 1915, and Reuben and Florence decided to take their family over to England for a holiday, and accompany Elizabeth on the journey. T…
…of 1915, and Reuben and Florence decided to take their family over to England for a holiday and accompany Elizabeth on the journey. They booked second cabin passage on the Lusitania. The entire family was lost when the ship was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-20 on 7 May 1915. Elizabeth’s body was the only one of the family recovered and identified, #78. She was buried on 10 May in Common Grave C, second row, lower tier, in the Old C…
…with several other passengers, were transferred to the Lusitania. Both husband and wife were lost in the disaster, and it was believed by physicians in West Chester that the excitement of the wreck would have caused John’s death, such was the advancement of his disease. Neither body was recovered. The balance of John’s estate, amounting to $2,438.43, passed to his mother, Mrs. Nancy Catherwood, who lived at Gortmacvane, Ireland. In the estate of M…
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