Mrs Elisabeth Vilhelmina Johnson (née Berg)
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Mrs Oscar W. Johnson (Alice ?Elisabeth Vilhelmina Backberg), 24, was born 24 January 1885.
Elisabeth was Married to editor Oscar Walter Johnson and lived with him and their children Harold Theodor and Eleanor Ileen in St. Charles, Illinois.
She and the children were returning from a visit to Oscar's parents home in Ramkvilla, Småland, Sweden. They travelled via Malmö (where they bought their tickets) and Copenhagen. They boarded the Titanic at Southampton.
Elisabeth and her children got into one of the last lifeboats on starboard side either lifeboat 13 or 15. A man, probably Gunnar Tenglin stepped out of the lifeboat to offer a place. After that he found there was still room left in the lifeboat and stepped back in.
In New York she was quartered on St. Lucas Hospital, where Red Cross gave them an unknown sum of money and a new trunk. 24 April she travelled via Chicago on her way home to St. Charles.
Her husband died in 1917, she then married Carl Peterson who died in 1964. Elisabeth Peterson (late Johnson, née Berg) died 19 December 1968.
Notes
Another source suggests she was in Finland visiting her dying father.
References
Claes-Göran Wetterholm (1988, 1996, 1999) Titanic. Prisma, Stockholm. ISBN
91 518 3644 0
Contributors
Phillip Gowan, USA
Leif Snellman,
Finland
Summary
Born: Friday 24th April 1885
Age: 26 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: Thursday 19th December 1968
Travelling Companions (on same ticket)
Master Harold Theodor Johnson
Miss Eleanor Ileen Johnson
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