History, Passenger & Crew Biographies, and Lusitania Facts
…Swansea. Cecelia, Ronald, and Reginald would also go to Swansea with the Smiths and then return to the United States, since Hubert Owens would be staying in Ellwood City. Lusitania The Smith family had a personal relationship with the Cunard Line, which may have played a part in the families’ choice of sailing aboard Lusitania on her fatal last crossing. Just after lunch on Friday, 7 May, the Smith family had returned to their cabin. While Alfred…
…was born in Shefford, Québec on 15 October 1865, one of nine children of Jean Solyme Chabot and Julie Boissonneau. David Louis married Sarah Elizabeth Coleman. They had three children, Olive, Eugene, and Arthur. References: “David Louis Chabot.” Ancestry.com. Online. Accessed 13 May 2013. <http://records.ancestry.com/DaviLouis_Chabot_records.ashx?pid=64685640>. “Jean Solyme Chabot.” Ancestry.com. Online. Accessed 13 May 2013. <http://records.ance…
…lunch to take his medications, while the other four sat in the dining room and conversed. The luncheon party started out to the deck, and just got out the threshold of the doorway when the ship was torpedoed. The following is an account from fellow survivor Friedrich August Schwarte: I met a friend of mine, Mr. Battersby, of Stockport, who had a cabin close to me, and he also put on a lifejacket. We rushed together to the boat deck, where the peop…
…he army and was killed in action in Arras, France, in 1917. Contributors “LondonGirl,” UK Hildur Panula-Heinonen Michael Poirier, USA References Panula-Heinonen, Hildur. “Osmund Bartle ‘Barty’ Wordsworth,” Find-A-Grave. Online. Accessed 8 May 2013. <http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=70833352>. “The Sinking of the Lusitania: A Survivor’s Story.” HubPages.com. Online. Accessed 8 August 2011. <http://hubpages.com/hub/The-sinking-o…
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