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Edith T.A. Gracie (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

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• Pixel Wrangler said:

  Edith T. Gracie (Edith Temple Gracie) (1894-1918) the only daughter of Colonel Archibald Gracie IV (1858-1912), and Mrs. Constance Elise Gracie (née Schack) (1852-1937) was a survivor of the Titanic disaster in 1912 along with her mother and father.   One of her ancestors built Gracie Mansion which would later become the official residence of the mayor of New York City in 1942.
  
  She was introduced to society in 1912, and in December 1917, married Captain Dunbar Adams (Dunbar Burchell Adams) (1891-1928), son of Mr. John Dunbar Adams (1849-1934) and Mrs. Susan Burchell Adams (1867-1937).
  
  Edith died of pneumonia Dec 31, 1918, after being married one year. Her husband was in the service in France and unaware of her death. She was 24 years old. Her husband, Dunbar, died of pneumonia at the age of 37.
  – Compiled [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9]
  
  
  There are 4 other photographs of Miss Edith T. A. Gracie in the Harris & Ewing Collection at the Library of Congress. So far I haven't found a reference to the initial "A", in the caption of "Edith T. A. Gracie".
  
  A photograph of Dunbar Adams, c.1910, with Beatrice Woerz is in the Library of Congress Collection on Flickr. "Beatrice Woerz with Dunbar Adams c.1910"

• Pixel Wrangler said:

  After Colonel Archibald Gracie’s rescue from the sinking of the Titanic, by the SS Carpathia, he recognized that he had been an eyewitness to a major historical event, and began to immediately record the events of the sinking while still aboard the Carpathia, and at countless inquiries in the months following. He was not in a lifeboat with the "women and children", but later jumped into the Atlantic with a life preserver. He reportedly was haunted by the ordeal for the rest of his life. After his death, his completed manuscript "The Truth about the Titanic," was published, later republished as, "Titanic, A Survivor's Story." [1] [2] [3]

• Richard Norton said:

  Edith Temple Gracie Adams, I think they swapped her maiden name and her married name.

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• Pixel Wrangler said:

  According to information posted on Long Island Genealogy, The New York Times article "Titanic Survivor Dies", of January 2, 1919, reporting Edith Gracie and her mother as Titanic survivors is incorrect, "Col. Gracie was the only member of the Gracie family who was on the ship." From looking at additional attributed source material on that site, as well as a look at the Encyclopedia Titanica it appears that the Times was in error.