Mrs. Thomas David Meldrum Burnside (Josephine Smyth Eaton)

Josephine Burnside, née Eaton, 49, was the daughter of the founder of Eaton’s Department Store.  Josephine, her daughter Iris, and maid Martha Waites were traveling on the Lusitania in May of 1915 to visit relatives in Ireland.  They were at lunch when the ship was torpedoed.  Josephine survived the Lusitania sinking, Iris did not. Josephine was the …

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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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