Miss Laura Mae Cribb
- Biography
| Name: Miss Laura Mae Cribb
Born: Wednesday 24th July 1895 Age: 16 years Marital Status: Single. Last Residence: in Parkstone Dorset England Occupation: Shop Assistant 3rd Class passenger First Embarked: Southampton on Wednesday 10th April 1912 Ticket No. 371362 , £16 2s Destination: Newark New Jersey United States Rescued (boat 12) Disembarked Carpathia: New York City on Thursday 18th April 1912 Died: Thursday 4th April 1974 Cause of Death: Cerebral Thrombosis Buried: Carlsbad Cemetery Carlsbad New Mexico United States |
Miss Laura May Cribb 1 was born on 24th July 1895, in Newark,
New Jersey 2 the daughter of John Hatfield
Cribb and Bessie Welch. She had three siblings: Ernest, Ellen, and Frank.
In 1912 Laura and her family had been staying in Bournemouth, Dorset, England. She and her father boarded the Titanic at Southampton as third class passengers; their destination was Newark, New Jersey.
A poem from Laura's Diary
(Courtesy of Ben R. Roberts)
On the night of the sinking Laura was rescued, possibly in lifeboat 12.
A drawing of the Titanic from Laura's Diary
(Courtesy of Ben R. Roberts)
Laura married Howard M. Buzzell 3 in 1916 in Parkstone, England
and they returned to the United States permanently in 1919. In 1947 they moved
to Carlsbad, New Mexico after living for a number of years in Phoenix, Arizona.
Laura Mae Buzzell (née Cribb) died in New Mexico, USA on the 4th April 1974
4. She is buried with her husband in the Oddfellows Section of
Carlsbad Cemetery (Section D, Lot 1). She was survived by two sons: Howard Buzzell
of Carthage, New York and Ernest Buzzell of Gouverneur, New York; Three daughters:
Virginia (Mrs Louis Williams) of Wilmington, Delaware, Elizabeth (Mrs F. G.
Kendall) of Atlanta and Georgia Shirley (Mrs Henry Carroll) of Lompoc, California;
as well as her brother Earnest Cribb of London, England. Laura also left 19
grandchildren and 4 great-grandchildren.
Notes
1. Ship' Manifest, Megantic, 1918. Laura gave her middle name as May.
Graham Cribb gives her name as "Laura Alice Cribb", Findlay (1998) gives her
name as "Laura Mary Cribb", her death certificate and other documents give her
name as "Laura Mae".
2. This is the birthplace mentioned on the death certificate and obituary, another
source (GC) gives her birth place as Lymington, Hampshire, England.
3. Buzzell died on 31 August 1961.
4. According to her obitiary she was a member of Epworth Methodist Church, Rebekah
Lodge #13, and was a past president of L.A.P.M. (?) of Hobbs, New Mexico.
Certificates
State of New Mexico
Certificate of Death
Documents
My Experience
of the wreck of the R.M.S. Titanic by Laura Mae Cribb
Contributors
Cameron Bell, Northern Ireland
Graham Cribb (descendent of Laura Cribb)
Phillip Gowan, USA
Ben
R. Roberts, USA
Hermann Söldner, Germany
Travelling Companions (on same ticket)
Mr John Hatfield Cribb
Related Articles and Documents
| Newark Star (1912) | GIRL SAYS FATHER SAVED HER IN WRECK |
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