Eloise Hughes Smith
Eloise Hughes Smith | |
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Born | Mary Eloise Hughes August 7, 1893 Huntington, West Virginia, U.S. |
Died | May 3, 1940 Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S. | (aged 46)
Spouses | Lucian Philip Smith
(m. 1912; died 1912)Lewis H. Cort, Jr.
(m. 1923; died 1927)C.S. Wright
(m. 1929, divorced) |
Children | Lucian P. Smith II (1912–1971) |
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Mary Eloise Hughes Smith (nee Hughes, August 7, 1893 – May 3, 1940), also referred to as Eloise Smith or Mrs. Lucian P. Smith, was a survivor of the 1912
Family and career
Smith was a member of the
Voyage on the Titanic
Lucian Philip and Eloise Hughes Smith boarded Titanic on Wednesday evening, 10 April 1912 in
Life after the Titanic
She later married a fellow survivor,
Death
Smith died of a heart attack in 1940 at the age of 46 in a sanitarium in Cincinnati.[10][1]
Popular culture
Smith was quoted extensively in the 1912 best-selling book The Sinking of the Titanic by Jay Henry Mowbray.
References
- ^ a b c d e "Huntington Quarterly - A Titanic Story". Huntingtonquarterly.com. Archived from the original on September 21, 2018. Retrieved September 22, 2018.
- ^ "Mrs. Eloise Hughes Smith Reweds. (Published 1923)". The New York Times. April 11, 1923. Retrieved July 30, 2023.
- ^ CASTO, JAMES (March 21, 2021). "A debutante bride who led a remarkable life". The Herald-Dispatch. Retrieved July 30, 2023.
- ISBN 978-0-393-04666-3.
- ISBN 978-1-7948-7540-1.
- ^ Whited, Brandon (August 7, 2015). "The Trials of Eloise Hughes Smith". Encyclopedia Titanica. Retrieved September 22, 2018.
- ^ Lucian P. Smith 29 Nov 1912 - 24 Oct 1971, Ancestry.com. U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014 (database on-line). Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2014. Original data: Social Security Administration. Social Security Death Index, Master File. Social Security Administration. Accessed September 2019.
- ^ Statement of Mrs. Lucian P. Smith at the US Inquiry
- ^ "Mrs. Eloise Hughes Smith Reweds". The New York Times. April 11, 1923. Retrieved June 21, 2007.
Mrs. Cort's first husband, Lucien P. Smith of Uniontown, Pa., was drowned when the Titanic sunk [sic] and the encounter in mid-ocean between Daniel and his widow culminated several years later in their marriage.
- ^ Truman, Cheryl. "What happened to Titanic passengers with Lexington ties?". Lexington Herald-Leader.
- ^ Mowbray, Jay Henry (1912). The Sinking of the Titanic. Philadelphia: C. Winston. pp. passim. Archived from the original on April 13, 2016. Retrieved July 5, 2007.
- ^ Melissa Jo Peltier (1994). Titanic: Death of a Dream (documentary). United States: A&E Network.
- ^ "Sinking of the Titanic". Seconds from Disaster.
- ^ The Titanic on Film: Myth versus Truth Linda Maria Koldau; McFarland, 2012 307 pages, page 141
External links
- "A Titanic Story" Archived January 12, 2018, at the Wayback Machine, Huntington Quarterly
- "Eloise Hughes Smith" in Titanic: Women and Children First, , by Judith B. Geller
- "Memories of the Titanic" at the Wayback Machine (archived February 19, 2012). Extract from the Huntington Herald-Dispatch, March 22, 1998.