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Carl J. Crease Jr.
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Username: wrinkle2
Post Number: 1
Registered: 12-2002
| | Posted on Friday, December 20, 2002 - 2:26 pm: | 
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My daughter just found out that our family might have had a relative that perished on the Titanic. I am trying to find out if he is or not.
where would I look for the info. His name is Ernest James Crease
Thank you for the info |
Dave Gittins
Member
Username: gittins
Post Number: 978
Registered: 4-2001
| | Posted on Friday, December 20, 2002 - 11:03 pm: |
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Carl, you'll find a little information here.
http://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/bio/p/3rd/crease_ej.shtml
You'll find it best to work back from your present relatives towards 1912. That way you'll find out if there is a real connection. |
J.R. Olivero
Member
Username: jrolivero17
Post Number: 1
Registered: 6-2009
| | Posted on Monday, June 22, 2009 - 2:29 pm: |
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I was researching some facts about Eleanor and came across this site. The story behind Mr. Cameron meeting Eleanor is as follows; I had interviewed Eleanor for a program I was making for PBS entitled "Death In America". (I had also arranged for her to appear on a Canadian chat show with Celine Dion from her home in Elgin, IL) David Wendell (former Historian with Rosehill Cemetery in Chicago) and I then arranged to have Eleanor meet Mr. Cameron at his hotel the day of Titanic's premiere. They met and Mr. Cameron said that it was interesting that he'd been down to the Titanic site on three occasions and never met an actual survivor. I snapped a photo (www.deathinamerica.com > Gallery > Click on #4) of the two of them. Mr. Cameron was very gracious and bought us lunch at the hotel. We attended the premiere that evening. Afterword I asked Eleanor what she thought of the movie. She said "it was loud!" Then she teared up remembering her nanny Elin Braf who was 18 at the time of the sinking. She commented on how Elin dropped her brother Harold in the lifeboat very close to the time the ship went under. (It is said that an officer took Harold from Elin but that wasn't the way she told it.) She also remembered that both her Mother and brother refused to discuss the tragedy and that Harold had "issues" with his memory of the disaster until the day he died. My favorite memory of Eleanor is that she made our crew chocolate chip cookies during both our two shoots with her. |
