Lucile polk carter biography of abraham lincoln

Acknowledgements Gavin Bell, UK. Age : 14 years 5 months and 26 days Female [ Children on Titanic ]. Nationality : American. Embarked : Southampton on Wednesday 10th April Ticket No. Rescued boat 4. Died : Friday 19th October aged 64 years. Linked Biographies. Mrs Lucile Carter Mother. Mr William Ernest Carter Father. Support New Research Joining Encyclopedia Titanica means supporting new research into the passengers and crew; making and sharing new discoveries about the Titanic story every day!

Join us today. Share this page. The Carters boarded the Titanic at Southampton. He then left this area with the other men who had taken their wives to this boat. Carter gave details of what happened when she and her two children boarded Lifeboat 4.

Lucile polk carter biography of abraham lincoln

Her statement was as follows. When I went over the side with my children and got in the boat there were no seamen in it. Then came a few men, but there were oars with no one to use them. The boat had been filled with passengers, and there was nothing else for me to do but to take an oar. We could see now that the time of the ship had come. She was sinking, and we were warned by cries from the men above to pull away from the ship quickly.

Thayer, wife of the vice-president of the Pennsylvania Railroad, was in my boat, and she, too, took an oar. It was cold and we had no time to clothe ourselves with warm overcoats. The rowing warmed me. We started to pull away from the ship. We could see the dim outlines of the decks above, but we could not recognize anybody. She was acclaimed by the press later to have been one of the heroic women who rowed the heavy lifeboats.

We sailed for America on the Titanic. When the Titanic struck my husband came to our stateroom and said: 'Get up and dress yourself and the children'. I never saw him again until I arrived at the Carpathia at 8 o'clock the next morning, when I saw him leaning on the rail. All he said was that he had had a jolly good breakfast and that he never thought I would make it.

At a Philadelphia dinner party given by Mr. With her divorce finalized, Carter and her daughter departed for Europe in June , intending to stay for a year. George Brooke arrived in London and tried to get to Paris, but wartime travel restrictions made it impossible. Instead, he arranged passage for Carter and her daughter to England.

The loading process was chaotic and delayed due to difficulties in opening the windows on the A-deck promenade. However, they were forced to leave behind their beloved dog, which remained on the ship under the care of Colonel John Jacob Astor. It appears that the disaster may have exacerbated existing marital problems between her parents.

He crashed into the stone wall of a cemetery in Upper Providence, Pennsylvania, while returning from a business trip. She faced further tragedy in with the loss of her daughter Elise. Remarkably, when they reached the Carpathia, Mrs. Carter was shocked to see her husband waiting for her, hanging over the railing. In January , less than two years after the sinking, Lucile filed for divorce.

The reasons cited were shocking:. With the divorce finalized on May 31, , Lucile wasted no time in starting a new chapter. In a surprising turn of events, she remarried on August 16, , to George Clymer Brooke, a prominent Philadelphia businessman and heir to an iron and steel fortune. Lucile remained active in society circles throughout the s and early s.

She maintained close friendships with fellow Titanic survivor Eleanor Widener later Mrs. Alexander H. Rice and continued to host lavish events at her various residences. She passed away suddenly on October 26, , at the age of 59 fifty-nine. Her widower, George Brooke, never remarried and died on August 10, , at the age of 86 eighty-six.