Widow, suffered from exposure, which later necessitated an operation. ().Įlizabeth suffered such exposure that she would later required an operation and was awarded $200 by the American Red Cross. The letter was later published in the Folkestone Herald. While recuperating on board the Carpathia Elizabeth wrote to reassure her parents that she was safe, and to explain the circumstances of her rescue. Some reports suggest that she caught baby Frank Aks who was taken from his mother and tossed into the boat, she wrapped baby in a steamer blanket to keep him warm, this woman may in fact have been Argene del Carlo. Mrs Nye was rescued in lifeboat 11, while waiting for the boat to be lowered. During the voyage she shared a cabin (F-33) with Mildred Brown, Selena Rogers Cook, and Amelia Lemore. She married a few years later, but had the misfortune to lose her two children by death, and also her husband."Īfter a trip to England to visit her parents in 1911-1912 she had been due to return to the United States aboard the Philadelphia but owing to the coal strike in Britain the sailing was cancelled and she was transferred to the Titanic which she boarded at Southampton, travelling in second class (Ticket No.C.A. Her first sweetheart was washed off the Harbour Pier and drowned. "Her life has been full of sad and trying experiences. The only child of the union, Maisie, died at the age of only nine months in 1906 while Edward Nye himself, died aged of 30 on. The couple probably moved to live in New York, about 1909. She was first married in Folkestone on 26 December 1904 to Edward Ernest Nye. Mr Ramell was a Salvation Army bandsman in that town and Elizabeth herself later worked for the Salvation Army in their uniform department of their New York headquarters. Ramell (born 1855), coach builder, and his wife Elizabeth. Mrs Elizabeth Ramell Nye, 29, was born on in Folkestone, Kent, the daughter of Thomas I. Buried: Kensico Cemetery Valhalla New York United States.Disembarked Carpathia: New York City on Thursday 18th April 1912.Destination: East Orange New Jersey United States.First Embarked: Southampton on Wednesday 10th April 1912.Last Residence: in East Orange New Jersey United States.
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