Name: Mrs. Emma Eliza Bucknell (née Ward)
Born: Saturday, August 28, 1852
Age: 59 years
Last Residence: in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1st Class passenger
First Embarked: Cherbourg on Wednesday, April 10, 1912
Ticket No. 11813 , £76 5s 10d ($119.62)
Cabin No.: D15
Rescued in lifeboat #8
Disembarked Carpathia: New York City on Thursday, April 18, 1912
Died: Monday, June 27, 1927

Mrs. Bucknell’s husband founded Bucknell College in Philadelphia. She was traveling back to America onboard the Titanic with her maid, Ms. Bazzani.

While she was waiting to board the Titanic at Cherbourg, Mrs. Bucknell was talking to Molly Brown (as in the unsinkable Molly Brown) about how she had “evil forebodings” that the ship would meet with tragedy.  Molly Brown laughed at her, and Mrs. Bucknell took the opportunity to remind her of those words after the sinking, only a few days later.

Mrs. Bucknell and Ms. Bazzani were rescued in lifeboat #8.

 

While waiting to board Titanic at Cherbourg, Mrs. Bucknell told Molly Brown that she had a bad feeling about things.

Name: Mr. Thomson Beattie

Born: Thursday, November 25, 1875 in Fergus,Ontario

Age: 36 years 4 months and 21 days

Marital Status: Single

Occupation: Landowner

1st Class passenger

First Embarked: Southampton on Wednesday, April 10, 1912

Ticket No. 13050 , £75 4s 10d ($118.93)

Died in the sinking

Body recovered by: Oceanic

Buried: at Sea

 

Mr. Beattie was a wealthy land owner from Ontario, Canada. He took a winter vacation with two friends to France. When one of his co-travelers fell ill, they decided to return home via the Titanic. He wrote a letter to his mother just 3 days before he set sail saying, “We are changing ships and coming home in a new, unsinkable boat.”

During the sinking, he took one of the last spots on lifeboat “Collapsible A”. This lifeboat was found by the Oceanic about 186 miles southeast of where Titanic went down. All three men in the boat had died of exposure.

Ironically, Mr. Beattie’s body was buried at sea (by the Oceanic) on his mother’s birthday, and at almost the same spot in the Atlantic where she had been born, 82 years earlier, on a ship bound for Canada.

He survived the sinking, but died later in his lifeboat.