Saturday, October 27, 2012

Famous irish widow


The Rice family boarded the Titanic at Queenstown Cork in Ireland.

But by Monday at 2.20am on the morning of 15th April the new Luxury Liner that the White Star Line has just built, The Titanic lay at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean.
Of the 2,223 people on board only 706 people survived. Margaret Rice and her five young children did not survive. They all died when the Titanic sank. Only the body of Margaret Rice was recovered for burial. Buried: Mount Olivet Cemetery Halifax Nova Scotia Canada on Friday 3rd May 1912.
Mrs. Margaret Rice was thirty nine years old as she stood on the Pier in Queenstown on Thursday 11th April 1912. With her were her five sons; Albert who was ten, George eight, Eric seven, Arthur four and Eugene who was two and a half years old. They were waiting to go on board the ship the Titanic.

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