Catherine Uhlmyer
Catherine Uhlmyer Connelly | |
|---|---|
General Slocum | |
| Spouse | Thomas Connelly |
| Children | 11 |
Catherine Uhlmyer Connelly (April 4, 1893 – October 17, 2002) was the second-to-last, and the longest-lived survivor of the
Biography
She was born as Catherine Uhlmyer in
On June 15, 1904, when she was 11 years old, she was one of the passengers aboard the General Slocum when it caught fire on the
In 1913, she married Thomas Connelly, a truck driver. She had 11 children. Ten of them were born at home. Only two were alive at the time of her death, Jeanette Connelly Meehan, who lived in Goshen, New York, and Elizabeth Gallagher Reilly, who lived in Greenwich, Connecticut. She was also survived by 27 grandchildren, 30 great-grandchildren and 7 great-great-grandchildren.
She lived in a Manhattan apartment by herself until she was 102. She then moved to a nursing home in Connecticut to be closer to her daughter Elizabeth. She died on October 17, 2002, aged 109.
See also
- Adella Wotherspoon, the last survivor
References
- ^ a b "Catherine Connelly, 109. Escaped Slocum Fire". The New York Times. October 19, 2002. Retrieved 2007-06-21.
- ^ "Survivor's Life In the Shadow Of a 1904 Disaster". The New York Times. May 24, 1989. Retrieved 2007-06-21.