History, Passenger & Crew Biographies, and Lusitania Facts
…a, who were rescued from the Lusitania were very kind to me, taking me to London with them. I stayed in London overnight, then a maid arrived from my cousins, with whom I was to visit.” Doris later married Elliot Lawler. Contributors Jim Kalafus, USA Michael Poirier, USA References Kalafus, Jim and Michael Poirier (2005) Lest We Forget : Part 1 ET Research. <http://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/lusitania-lest-we-forget.html>. Preston, Diana. Lusit…
…nt remained in contact with Harwood and Naina, although she received no additional financial support from them after her marriage. The Knights moved from Baltimore to Paris, where they lived for 4 years while Harwood studied piano. Both brother and sister never married. Harwood and Naina returned to the United States via Marseilles in 1914 when World War I broke out. In their extended visit to the United States, they stayed at the home of Millient…
…impacted Lusitania, Doris was in her room. She grabbed her lifejacket, put it on, and ran out, passing Rita Jolivet in the hallway. After the ship sank, Doris recalled that the dead and drowning were “dotting the sea like seagulls.” She saw “a person who had died in the water and another person sitting on top of that person trying to survive.” While perhaps not an isolated incident, second cabin passenger Grace French used a dead man for flotation…
…nia to visit the younger Rosina’s brother, William Edward, then living in London, England. Both mother and daughter were lost in the Lusitania disaster, and only the mother’s body was recovered and identified. The younger Rosina was born in New Orleans around 1886, the daughter of Rosina Thomas Philips and William Edward Leverich. She had a brother, William Edward Leverich. In May 1915, mother and daughter boarded the RMS Lusitania to visit Rosina…
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