Mary Elizabeth Davison survived by boarding lifeboat 16, and lived in Bedford until she died nearly 27 years after the Titanic sank.
BEDFORD , Ohio - It’s been 112 years since the most famous ship in the world struck an iceberg and sank on her maiden voyage.boarded Titanic with her husband, Thomas Henry Davison, to head to Bedford so she could be near her parents, who lived in Cleveland.
The couple had already purchased tickets for another ship, but Mary asked Thomas to exchange them to sail on the maiden voyage of the most luxurious ocean liner the sea had seen. Though third class was the least expensive of the tickets, the clean and simple accommodations rivaled the second class offerings of other ships.
Just four days into the trip, the “unsinkable” ship met her cruel fate when she collided with an iceberg at 11:40 p.m. on April 14.With the dooming realization that there only a fraction of lifeboats needed to save every soul aboard, women and children were instructed to board the lifeboats first.Titanic slipped below the Atlantic to her watery grave at 2:20 a.m. on April 15.The 710 passengers in third class suffered the highest mortality rate, with only 174 surviving, including Mary.
She died from a battle with cancer on March 26, 1939 at the age of 61, and is buried in Bedford Cemetery.Reports state her family is still in possession of the skirt Godwin wore the night Titanic sank.FILE - In this April 10, 1912 file photo the Titanic leaves Southampton, England on her maiden voyage. The U.S.
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