Miss Eleanor Ileen Johnson

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Name: Miss Eleanor Ileen Johnson
Born: Friday 23rd September 1910
Age: 1 years
Last Residence: in St. Charles
3rd Class passenger
First Embarked: Southampton on Wednesday 10th April 1912
Ticket No. 347742 , £11 2s 8d
Destination: St. Charles
Rescued (boat 15)
Disembarked Carpathia: New York City on Thursday 18th April 1912
Died: Saturday 7th March 1998
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Miss Eleanor Ileen Johnson, 1, was born 23 August 1910 the daughter of Oskar Walter Johnson and Alice Wilhelmina Backberg. She boarded the Titanic at Southampton with her mother and brother Harold Theodor.

They were probably rescued in lifeboat 15.

In later years Eleanor worked at the Elgin Watch Company, she later became a telephone operator until retiring in 1962. She was married to Delbert Shuman and they had one son, Earl.

Eleanor Shuman (née Johnson) died 7 March 1998.

Travelling Companions (on same ticket)
Mrs Elisabeth Vilhelmina Johnson
Master Harold Theodor Johnson

References and Sources

Claes-Göran Wetterholm (1988, 1996, 1999) Titanic. Prisma, Stockholm. ISBN 91 518 3644 0
Boston Globe Obituary, March 1998
Chicago Sun Times Obituary, March 1998
Chicago Tribune Obituary, March 1998
Newark Star Ledger Obituary, March 1998
San Diego Union Tribune Obituary, March 1998

Credits
Arthur Merchant, USA
Becky Ross, USA
Jon Neville, USA
Leif Snellman, Finland

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Unidentified Newspaper  (1997)  UNKNOWN TITLE  
(1997)  ELEANOR JOHNSON SHUMAN IN HER ELGIN, ILLINOIS HOME  
Unidentified Newspaper  (1998)  ELEANOR I. SHUMAN, 87, TITANIC SURVIVOR  

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