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'''Mary Eloise Hughes Smith''' (August 7, 1893 – May 3, 1940), also referred to as '''Eloise Smith''' or '''Mrs. Lucian P. Smith''', was a survivor of the 1912 [[RMS Titanic|RMS ''Titanic'']] disaster. Her first husband, Lucian P. Smith, scion of a wealthy [[Morgantown, West Virginia|Morgantown]] family with vast holdings in the [[Pennsylvania]] [[Coal Region|coal fields]] died in the sinking; she later married a fellow survivor.<ref name="huntingtonquarterly.com">{{cite web|url=https://www.huntingtonquarterly.com/articles/issue29/titanic.html|title=Huntington Quarterly - A Titanic Story|website=Huntingtonquarterly.com|access-date=22 September 2018}}</ref> |
'''Mary Eloise Hughes Smith''' (nee Hughes, August 7, 1893 – May 3, 1940), also referred to as '''Eloise Smith''' or '''Mrs. Lucian P. Smith''', was a survivor of the 1912 [[RMS Titanic|RMS ''Titanic'']] disaster. Her first husband, Lucian P. Smith, scion of a wealthy [[Morgantown, West Virginia|Morgantown]] family with vast holdings in the [[Pennsylvania]] [[Coal Region|coal fields]] died in the sinking; she later married a fellow survivor.<ref name="huntingtonquarterly.com">{{cite web|url=https://www.huntingtonquarterly.com/articles/issue29/titanic.html|title=Huntington Quarterly - A Titanic Story|website=Huntingtonquarterly.com|access-date=22 September 2018|archive-date=September 21, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180921115142/https://www.huntingtonquarterly.com/articles/issue29/titanic.html|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=1923-04-11 |title=Mrs. Eloise Hughes Smith Reweds. (Published 1923) |work=The New York Times |language=en |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1923/04/11/archives/mrs-eloise-hughes-smith-reweds.html |access-date=2023-07-30}}</ref> |
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==Family and career== |
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| ⚫ | Lucian Philip and Eloise Hughes Smith boarded ''Titanic'' on Wednesday evening, 10 April 1912 in [[Cherbourg, France|Cherbourg]] on their way home from their honeymoon. The couple had considered taking the older, smaller, and slightly faster [[Cunard Line|Cunard]] liner [[RMS Lusitania|RMS ''Lusitania'']] home but ultimately decided to buy a ticket for the maiden voyage of the newest, and most luxurious ship in the [[White Star Line|White Star]] fleet, ''Titanic''. Their trip had included a transatlantic crossing to [[Europe]] aboard ''Titanic's'' [[sister ship]] [[RMS Olympic|RMS ''Olympic'']] and sightseeing in [[Italy]], [[France]], the [[Middle East]] and [[Egypt]].<ref>{{cite |
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| ⚫ | Smith was a member of the [[List of United States political families (V)#The Vinsons|Vinson political family]]; the daughter of United States Representative [[James A. Hughes]] and Belle Vinson.<ref>{{Cite web |last=CASTO |first=JAMES |date=2021-03-21 |title=A debutante bride who led a remarkable life |url=https://www.herald-dispatch.com/features_entertainment/james-e-casto-a-debutante-bride-who-led-a-remarkable-life/article_d7d8b813-534e-5d89-9330-bbcd88b7fdb5.html |access-date=2023-07-30 |website=The Herald-Dispatch |language=en}}</ref> As children, Smith and her sister had made the acquaintance of [[Theodore Roosevelt|President Theodore Roosevelt]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Geller|first=Judith B.|title=Titanic: Women and Children First|publisher=W. W. Norton & Company|date=October 1998|pages=[https://archive.org/details/titanicwomenchil00gell/page/66 66]|url=https://archive.org/details/titanicwomenchil00gell/page/66|isbn=978-0-393-04666-3|url-access=registration}}</ref> She was a popular public speaker. She was active in [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican Party]] politics and campaigned for [[women's suffrage]]. She worked for a time at the pension bureau in [[Washington D.C.]]<ref name="huntingtonquarterly.com"/><ref>{{Cite book |last=Whited |first=Brandon |title=Gilded Tragedy: West Virginia's Titanic Widow |date=2019-11-27 |publisher=Lulu.com |isbn=978-1-7948-7540-1 |language=English}}</ref> |
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==Voyage on the ''Titanic''== |
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| ⚫ | Lucian Philip and Eloise Hughes Smith boarded ''Titanic'' on Wednesday evening, 10 April 1912 in [[Cherbourg, France|Cherbourg]] on their way home from their honeymoon. The couple had considered taking the older, smaller, and slightly faster [[Cunard Line|Cunard]] liner [[RMS Lusitania|RMS ''Lusitania'']] home but ultimately decided to buy a ticket for the maiden voyage of the newest, and most luxurious ship in the [[White Star Line|White Star]] fleet, ''Titanic''. Their trip had included a transatlantic crossing to [[Europe]] aboard ''Titanic's'' [[sister ship]] [[RMS Olympic|RMS ''Olympic'']] and sightseeing in [[Italy]], [[France]], the [[Middle East]] and [[Egypt]].<ref>{{cite journal|url=https://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/trials-eloise-hughes-smith.html|title=The Trials of Eloise Hughes Smith|first=Brandon|last=Whited|journal=Encyclopedia Titanica|date=7 August 2015 |access-date=22 September 2018}}</ref> She survived the sinking of the ''Titanic'' to give birth to her son Lucian Philip Smith II on 29 November 1912.<ref>[https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&dbid=3693&h=58257300&tid=&pid=&usePUB=true&_phsrc=IMT57&_phstart=successSource Lucian P. Smith 29 Nov 1912 - 24 Oct 1971], Ancestry.com. U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014 (database on-line). Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2014. Original data: Social Security Administration. Social Security Death Index, Master File. Social Security Administration. Accessed September 2019.</ref> Two other newly married women on the ''Titanic'' later had children as well.<ref name="huntingtonquarterly.com"/> During the sinking, when Smith pleaded whether her husband could go with her, Captain [[Edward Smith (sea captain)|Edward J. Smith]] ignored her, shouting again through his megaphone the message of women and children first. Lucien told the captain, "Never mind, captain, about that; I will see that she gets in the boat.", before telling his wife, "I never expected to ask you to obey, but this is one time you must. It is only a matter of form to have women and children first. The ship is thoroughly equipped and everyone on her will be saved."<ref>[https://www.titanicinquiry.org/USInq/AmInq18Smith01.php Statement of Mrs. Lucian P. Smith at the US Inquiry]</ref> |
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==Life after the ''Titanic''== |
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She later married a fellow survivor, [[Robert Williams Daniel|Robert Daniel]], a bank executive, in 1914.<ref>{{cite news |title=Mrs. Eloise Hughes Smith Reweds |url=http://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/item/2371/ |quote= Mrs. Cort's first husband, Lucien P. Smith of Uniontown, Pa., was drowned when the Titanic sunk [sic] and the encounter in mid-ocean between Daniel and his widow culminated several years later in their marriage. |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |date=11 April 1923 |access-date=2007-06-21 }}</ref> In 1923 Smith divorced Daniel and married Lewis H. Cort, Jr. Cort died several years later, and she married C.S. Wright in 1929. They lived in [[Charleston West Virginia|Charleston]], and soon divorced.<ref name="huntingtonquarterly.com"/> |
She later married a fellow survivor, [[Robert Williams Daniel|Robert Daniel]], a bank executive, in 1914.<ref>{{cite news |title=Mrs. Eloise Hughes Smith Reweds |url=http://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/item/2371/ |quote= Mrs. Cort's first husband, Lucien P. Smith of Uniontown, Pa., was drowned when the Titanic sunk [sic] and the encounter in mid-ocean between Daniel and his widow culminated several years later in their marriage. |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |date=11 April 1923 |access-date=2007-06-21 }}</ref> In 1923 Smith divorced Daniel and married Lewis H. Cort, Jr. Cort died several years later, and she married C.S. Wright in 1929. They lived in [[Charleston West Virginia|Charleston]], and soon divorced.<ref name="huntingtonquarterly.com"/> |
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==Death== |
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| ⚫ | Smith was a member of the [[List of United States political families (V)#The Vinsons|Vinson political family]]; the daughter of United States Representative [[James A. Hughes]] and Belle Vinson. As children, Smith and her sister had made the acquaintance of [[Theodore Roosevelt|President Theodore Roosevelt]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Geller|first=Judith B.|title=Titanic: Women and Children First|publisher=W. W. Norton & Company|date=October 1998|pages=[https://archive.org/details/titanicwomenchil00gell/page/66 66]|url=https://archive.org/details/titanicwomenchil00gell/page/66|isbn=978-0-393-04666-3|url-access=registration}}</ref> She was a popular public speaker. She was active in [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican Party]] politics and campaigned for [[women's suffrage]]. She worked for a time at the pension bureau in [[Washington D.C.]]<ref name="huntingtonquarterly.com"/> |
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| ⚫ | Smith died of a heart attack in 1940 at the age of 46 in a [[Sanatorium|sanitarium]] in Cincinnati.<ref>{{cite web|last=Truman|first=Cheryl|title=What happened to Titanic passengers with Lexington ties?|url=http://www.kentucky.com/2013/10/03/2858272/what-happened-to-titanic-passengers.html|publisher=Lexington Herald-Leader}}</ref><ref name="huntingtonquarterly.com"/> She was buried at the [[Spring Hill Cemetery (Huntington, West Virginia)|Spring Hill Cemetery]].<ref>{{cite web|last=Harrison|first=Heath|date=August 9, 2023|access-date=September 26, 2024|title=FOCUS: A survivor’s story|url=https://www.irontontribune.com/2023/08/09/focus-a-survivors-story/|publisher=Ironton Tribune}}</ref> |
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| ⚫ | Smith died of a heart attack in 1940 at the age of 46 in a [[Sanatorium|sanitarium]] in Cincinnati.<ref>{{cite web|last=Truman|first=Cheryl|title=What happened to Titanic passengers with Lexington ties?|url=http://www.kentucky.com/2013/10/03/2858272/what-happened-to-titanic-passengers.html|publisher=Lexington Herald-Leader}}</ref><ref name="huntingtonquarterly.com"/> |
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Smith was quoted extensively in the 1912 best-selling book ''The Sinking of the Titanic'' by Jay Henry Mowbray.<ref>{{cite book |
Smith was quoted extensively in the 1912 best-selling book ''The Sinking of the Titanic'' by Jay Henry Mowbray.<ref>{{cite book |
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}}</ref> She and her husband were portrayed in the 1956 ''[[Kraft Television Theatre]]'' program ''[[A Night to Remember (Kraft Television Theatre)|A Night to Remember]]'', and were the basis for the characters "Robbie Lucas and Mrs. Liz Lucas", in the [[A Night to Remember (1958 film)|1958 film |
}}</ref> She and her husband were portrayed in the 1956 ''[[Kraft Television Theatre]]'' program ''[[A Night to Remember (Kraft Television Theatre)|A Night to Remember]]'', and were the basis for the characters "Robbie Lucas and Mrs. Liz Lucas", in the [[A Night to Remember (1958 film)|1958 film adaptation]] portrayed by [[John Merivale]] and [[Honor Blackman]]. Lucas even says the words actually spoken by Lucien Smith to his wife with some fictional elaboration due to the Lucas couple having three children.<ref name="books.google.com">[https://books.google.com/books?id=bZs5LJAU0l8C&pg=PA298 The Titanic on Film: Myth versus Truth] [[Linda Maria Koldau]]; McFarland, 2012 307 pages, page 141</ref> |
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* [http://www.huntingtonquarterly.com/articles/issue29/titanic.html "A Titanic Story"], ''Huntington Quarterly'' |
* [http://www.huntingtonquarterly.com/articles/issue29/titanic.html "A Titanic Story"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180112162749/http://www.huntingtonquarterly.com/articles/issue29/titanic.html |date=January 12, 2018 }}, ''Huntington Quarterly'' |
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* "Eloise Hughes Smith" in [https://archive.org/details/titanicwomenchil00gell/page/66 ''Titanic: Women and Children First''], , by Judith B. Geller |
* "Eloise Hughes Smith" in [https://archive.org/details/titanicwomenchil00gell/page/66 ''Titanic: Women and Children First''], , by Judith B. Geller |
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* {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120219002929/http://files.usgwarchives.org/wv/wayne/bios/BelleVinson.txt|title="Memories of the Titanic"|date=February 19, 2012}}. Extract from the ''Huntington Herald-Dispatch'', March 22, 1998. |
* {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120219002929/http://files.usgwarchives.org/wv/wayne/bios/BelleVinson.txt|title="Memories of the Titanic"|date=February 19, 2012}}. Extract from the ''Huntington Herald-Dispatch'', March 22, 1998. |
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Eloise Hughes Smith | |
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.png) c. 1910 | |
| Born | Mary Eloise Hughes August 7, 1893 Huntington, West Virginia, U.S. |
| Died | May 3, 1940 (aged 46) Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S. |
| Spouses | Lucian Philip Smith
(m. 1912; died 1912)Lewis H. Cort, Jr.
(m. 1923; died 1927)C.S. Wright
(m. 1929, divorced) |
| Children | Lucian P. Smith II (1912–1971) |
| Father | Rep. James A. Hughes |
Mary Eloise Hughes Smith (nee Hughes, August 7, 1893 – May 3, 1940), also referred to as Eloise Smith or Mrs. Lucian P. Smith, was a survivor of the 1912 RMS Titanic disaster. Her first husband, Lucian P. Smith, scion of a wealthy Morgantown family with vast holdings in the Pennsylvania coal fields died in the sinking; she later married a fellow survivor.[1][2]
Family and career
[edit]Smith was a member of the Vinson political family; the daughter of United States Representative James A. Hughes and Belle Vinson.[3] As children, Smith and her sister had made the acquaintance of President Theodore Roosevelt.[4] She was a popular public speaker. She was active in Republican Party politics and campaigned for women's suffrage. She worked for a time at the pension bureau in Washington D.C.[1][5]
Voyage on the Titanic
[edit]Lucian Philip and Eloise Hughes Smith boarded Titanic on Wednesday evening, 10 April 1912 in Cherbourg on their way home from their honeymoon. The couple had considered taking the older, smaller, and slightly faster Cunard liner RMS Lusitania home but ultimately decided to buy a ticket for the maiden voyage of the newest, and most luxurious ship in the White Star fleet, Titanic. Their trip had included a transatlantic crossing to Europe aboard Titanic's sister ship RMS Olympic and sightseeing in Italy, France, the Middle East and Egypt.[6] She survived the sinking of the Titanic to give birth to her son Lucian Philip Smith II on 29 November 1912.[7] Two other newly married women on the Titanic later had children as well.[1] During the sinking, when Smith pleaded whether her husband could go with her, Captain Edward J. Smith ignored her, shouting again through his megaphone the message of women and children first. Lucien told the captain, "Never mind, captain, about that; I will see that she gets in the boat.", before telling his wife, "I never expected to ask you to obey, but this is one time you must. It is only a matter of form to have women and children first. The ship is thoroughly equipped and everyone on her will be saved."[8]
Life after the Titanic
[edit]She later married a fellow survivor, Robert Daniel, a bank executive, in 1914.[9] In 1923 Smith divorced Daniel and married Lewis H. Cort, Jr. Cort died several years later, and she married C.S. Wright in 1929. They lived in Charleston, and soon divorced.[1]
Death
[edit]Smith died of a heart attack in 1940 at the age of 46 in a sanitarium in Cincinnati.[10][1] She was buried at the Spring Hill Cemetery.[11]
Popular culture
[edit]Smith was quoted extensively in the 1912 best-selling book The Sinking of the Titanic by Jay Henry Mowbray.[12] Her letters and other recollections of the sinking have been quoted in numerous documentaries about the sinking of the ship, including the documentary filmmaker Melissa Jo Peltier in the A&E Network documentaries Titanic: Death of a Dream and Titanic: The Legend Lives On to illustrate the hours between the Titanic's encounter with the iceberg and the rescue of the survivors by RMS Carpathia,[13] and in the documentary Titanic: Anatomy of a Disaster. She was portrayed in the documentary television series Seconds from Disaster by Jennifer Lee Trendowski in the episode featuring the Titanic.[14] She and her husband were portrayed in the 1956 Kraft Television Theatre program A Night to Remember, and were the basis for the characters "Robbie Lucas and Mrs. Liz Lucas", in the 1958 film adaptation portrayed by John Merivale and Honor Blackman. Lucas even says the words actually spoken by Lucien Smith to his wife with some fictional elaboration due to the Lucas couple having three children.[15]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d e "Huntington Quarterly - A Titanic Story". Huntingtonquarterly.com. Archived from the original on September 21, 2018. Retrieved September 22, 2018.
- ^ "Mrs. Eloise Hughes Smith Reweds. (Published 1923)". The New York Times. April 11, 1923. Retrieved July 30, 2023.
- ^ CASTO, JAMES (March 21, 2021). "A debutante bride who led a remarkable life". The Herald-Dispatch. Retrieved July 30, 2023.
- ^ Geller, Judith B. (October 1998). Titanic: Women and Children First. W. W. Norton & Company. pp. 66. ISBN 978-0-393-04666-3.
- ^ Whited, Brandon (November 27, 2019). Gilded Tragedy: West Virginia's Titanic Widow. Lulu.com. ISBN 978-1-7948-7540-1.
- ^ Whited, Brandon (August 7, 2015). "The Trials of Eloise Hughes Smith". Encyclopedia Titanica. Retrieved September 22, 2018.
- ^ Lucian P. Smith 29 Nov 1912 - 24 Oct 1971, Ancestry.com. U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014 (database on-line). Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2014. Original data: Social Security Administration. Social Security Death Index, Master File. Social Security Administration. Accessed September 2019.
- ^ Statement of Mrs. Lucian P. Smith at the US Inquiry
- ^ "Mrs. Eloise Hughes Smith Reweds". The New York Times. April 11, 1923. Retrieved June 21, 2007.
Mrs. Cort's first husband, Lucien P. Smith of Uniontown, Pa., was drowned when the Titanic sunk [sic] and the encounter in mid-ocean between Daniel and his widow culminated several years later in their marriage.
- ^ Truman, Cheryl. "What happened to Titanic passengers with Lexington ties?". Lexington Herald-Leader.
- ^ Harrison, Heath (August 9, 2023). "FOCUS: A survivor's story". Ironton Tribune. Retrieved September 26, 2024.
- ^ Mowbray, Jay Henry (1912). The Sinking of the Titanic. Philadelphia: C. Winston. pp. passim. Archived from the original on April 13, 2016. Retrieved July 5, 2007.
- ^ Melissa Jo Peltier (1994). Titanic: Death of a Dream (documentary). United States: A&E Network.
- ^ "Sinking of the Titanic". Seconds from Disaster.
- ^ The Titanic on Film: Myth versus Truth Linda Maria Koldau; McFarland, 2012 307 pages, page 141
External links
[edit]- "A Titanic Story" Archived January 12, 2018, at the Wayback Machine, Huntington Quarterly
- "Eloise Hughes Smith" in Titanic: Women and Children First, , by Judith B. Geller
- "Memories of the Titanic" at the Wayback Machine (archived February 19, 2012). Extract from the Huntington Herald-Dispatch, March 22, 1998.
