Edith Corse Evans (1875-1912)
of New York City; died on the RMS Titanic, unmarried
She was one of only four first-class women passengers to die on the RMS Titanic, the others being Mrs. Bess Waldo Allison, Ann Eliza Isham, and Mrs. Ida Strauss. Edith had been travelling with three sisters, Mrs. E.D. Appleton, Mrs. R.C. Cornell, and Mrs. (Caroline) John Murray Brown, and having already become friendly with Col. Archibald Gracie he helped get them on to lifeboats. However, by the time it was Edith and Caroline's turn, there was only space left. Edith turned to Caroline and said, "you go. You have children waiting at home." Caroline got the last spot on the last lifeboat. Soon afterwards, Col. Gracie and Edith were pulled into the water when the ship went under, but only Colonel Gracie came up, Edith's body was never found. There is a monument to her memory at Westport, Connecticut, where her great-grandfather, Morris Ketchum, built his country estate. There is another in Grace Church, Manhattan, where she worshipped, and a third at St. Ann's, Sayville (Suffolk Co., N.Y.) where her grandfather (Israel Corse) had his summer home, at which she and her sister were frequent guests.
