Miss Kathryn Hickson

Kathryn Hickson, 57 (?), was sister to fellow passenger Caroline Hickson Kennedy.  Kathryn worked with Caroline in Caroline’s fashion business, Hickson and Company. While Caroline often went to Paris for fashion shows, Kathryn’s fatal trip aboard Lusitania was to be her first trip to Europe. Both sisters perished in the sinking of the Lusitania. Life Kathryn …

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Master William Sterling Hodges, Jr.

Dean Hodges and William Hodges, Jr. images:  New York Times, Sunday 16 May 1915. William Hodges, Jr., 8, was traveling aboard Lusitania with his father William Hodges, mother Sarah Hodges, and brother Dean Hodges as his father had business in Paris, France. The family was originally from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. The entire family was …

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Mrs. William Sterling Hodges (Sarah Grisemer)

Sarah Hodges, 36, was traveling on Lusitania with her husband, William Hodges, and their two children, William S. Hodges, Jr., and Dean Winston Hodges. They family was from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, but her husband William had business in Paris, France, to attend to for which they booked Lusitania. The entire family was lost when …

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Mr. William Sterling Hodges

New York Times, Sunday 16 May 1915. William Hodges, 36, was a United States citizen from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was traveling aboard Lusitania with his wife Sarah and children William Sterling, Jr. and Dean Winston. All members of the family were lost when the Lusitania was torpedoed and sunk by the German u-boat U-20 on …

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