Edith Corse EVANS

Victime du naufrage du Titanic.

1st Class Passenger.

Embarked: Cherbourg on Wednesday 10th April 1912.

Ticket No. 17531.

Cabin No. A29.

A resident of New York City, Miss Evans had been on a trip to Europe including a visit to cousins in Paris. Her travel companions, three sisters, Mrs. Charlotte Appelton, Mrs. Malvina Helen Lamson Cornell and Mrs.Caroline Lane Lamson Brown a widow, were returning home from burryinga fourth sister Lady Victor Drummond. They along with Edith Evans had the misfortune and double tragedy of being booked on the Titanic. When the ship hit the iceberg panic and confusion set in. In the chaos that ensued, Charlotte and Malvina became seperated from Edith and Caroline.Perhaps that is why the two friends stayed aboard so long. Finally giving up the search for their respective friends and sisters, the two women approached a lifeboat. It was now 2:20 am. Only too late did they realize that one of them was doomed. The last boat with one last seat remained and it was about to leave. It was then that Edith turned to her friend and said, "You go. You have children waiting for you at home. I'llget a later boat." But there would be no later boat. Edith Evans wentdown with the Titanic. Edith Corse Evans was one of only four first-class women passengers to die. Her body was never found.

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