Miss Grace Scott Bowen
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| Name: Miss Grace Scott Bowen
Born: Saturday 9th March 1867 Age: 45 years Last Residence: in Cooperstown New York United States Occupation: Governess 1st Class passenger First Embarked: Cherbourg on Wednesday 10th April 1912 Ticket No. 17608 , £262 7s 6d Rescued (boat 4) Disembarked Carpathia: New York City on Thursday 18th April 1912 Died: Thursday 3rd May 1945 Buried: Lakewood Cemetery Cooperstown New York United States |
Miss Grace Scott Bowen sailed on the Titanic with the Ryerson family as governess to Jack Ryerson. She held Ticket No. PC 17608.
Miss Bowen escaped aboard Lifeboat 4 with Mrs Emily Ryerson, her two daughters and Jack. Jack had been initially denied entry into the boat by Second Officer Lightoller but his father Arthur Ryerson protested that he should go as he was only 13. Lightoller relented.
Grace Scott Brown went on to become the principal of the St. Christina School of the Susan Fenimore Cooper Foundation and later headed the Latin Department at the Knox School for Girls in Cooperstown. She died of a cerebral hemorhage in Cooperstown in 1945 at age 78, and was buried in Lakewood Cemetery.
Sources
Contract Ticket List, White Star Line 1912 (National Archives, New York; NRAN-21-SDNYCIVCAS-55[279])
The Oneonta Daily Star, April 28, 1997
Acknowledgements
Gary Robinson, Oneonta, New York
Arthur Merchant
Hermann Söldner, Germany
Travelling Companions (on same ticket)
Miss Victorine Chaudanson
Mr Arthur Larned Ryerson
Mrs Emily Maria Ryerson
Miss Emily Borie Ryerson
Miss Susan Parker "Suzette" Ryerson
Master John Borie Ryerson
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