Thanks to contributor Ron Stewart for the following information:
Of Boston, MA. Henry, his wife, 3 of their children and a nurse were lost on-board the ill-fated steamship, Ville du Havre, 22 Nov 1873. Henry, Jr. was the only member of the family that survived this tragedy. [Source: Richard Channing Moore Page, M.D., Genealogy of the Page Family in Virginia, (New York, Press of the Publisher's Printing Co., Second Edition, 1893.), p. 232]
In the earliest hours of Nov. 22, the Ville du Havre sank in 12 minutes after a freak collision with the British-flagged Lochearn. The wreck so shocked the public -- the lifeboats couldn't be deployed because they were stuck in place by the new paint -- that Currier and Ives would later illustrate the tragedy. Providentially, the Trimountain was near enough to rescue the survivors, but not soon enough to prevent the loss of 226 souls. Only 47 made it to Wales, where the Trimountain dropped them off.
(Source: http://www.chicagotribune.com/travel/chi-0612090162dec10,0,1067714.story?coll=chi-travel-hed)
Per a living relative Barclay Rives, the window behind the Grace Church altar in Keswick, VA was endowed in their memory.
Of Boston, MA. Henry, his wife, 3 of their children and a nurse were lost on-board the ill-fated steamship, Ville du Havre, 22 Nov 1873. Henry, Jr. was the only member of the family that survived this tragedy. [Source: Richard Channing Moore Page, M.D., Genealogy of the Page Family in Virginia, (New York, Press of the Publisher's Printing Co., Second Edition, 1893.), p. 232]
In the earliest hours of Nov. 22, the Ville du Havre sank in 12 minutes after a freak collision with the British-flagged Lochearn. The wreck so shocked the public -- the lifeboats couldn't be deployed because they were stuck in place by the new paint -- that Currier and Ives would later illustrate the tragedy. Providentially, the Trimountain was near enough to rescue the survivors, but not soon enough to prevent the loss of 226 souls. Only 47 made it to Wales, where the Trimountain dropped them off.
(Source: http://www.chicagotribune.com/travel/chi-0612090162dec10,0,1067714.story?coll=chi-travel-hed)
Per a living relative Barclay Rives, the window behind the Grace Church altar in Keswick, VA was endowed in their memory.
Thanks to contributor Ron Stewart for the following information:
Of Boston, MA. Henry, his wife, 3 of their children and a nurse were lost on-board the ill-fated steamship, Ville du Havre, 22 Nov 1873. Henry, Jr. was the only member of the family that survived this tragedy. [Source: Richard Channing Moore Page, M.D., Genealogy of the Page Family in Virginia, (New York, Press of the Publisher's Printing Co., Second Edition, 1893.), p. 232]
In the earliest hours of Nov. 22, the Ville du Havre sank in 12 minutes after a freak collision with the British-flagged Lochearn. The wreck so shocked the public -- the lifeboats couldn't be deployed because they were stuck in place by the new paint -- that Currier and Ives would later illustrate the tragedy. Providentially, the Trimountain was near enough to rescue the survivors, but not soon enough to prevent the loss of 226 souls. Only 47 made it to Wales, where the Trimountain dropped them off.
(Source: http://www.chicagotribune.com/travel/chi-0612090162dec10,0,1067714.story?coll=chi-travel-hed)
Per a living relative Barclay Rives, the window behind the Grace Church altar in Keswick, VA was endowed in their memory.
Of Boston, MA. Henry, his wife, 3 of their children and a nurse were lost on-board the ill-fated steamship, Ville du Havre, 22 Nov 1873. Henry, Jr. was the only member of the family that survived this tragedy. [Source: Richard Channing Moore Page, M.D., Genealogy of the Page Family in Virginia, (New York, Press of the Publisher's Printing Co., Second Edition, 1893.), p. 232]
In the earliest hours of Nov. 22, the Ville du Havre sank in 12 minutes after a freak collision with the British-flagged Lochearn. The wreck so shocked the public -- the lifeboats couldn't be deployed because they were stuck in place by the new paint -- that Currier and Ives would later illustrate the tragedy. Providentially, the Trimountain was near enough to rescue the survivors, but not soon enough to prevent the loss of 226 souls. Only 47 made it to Wales, where the Trimountain dropped them off.
(Source: http://www.chicagotribune.com/travel/chi-0612090162dec10,0,1067714.story?coll=chi-travel-hed)
Per a living relative Barclay Rives, the window behind the Grace Church altar in Keswick, VA was endowed in their memory.
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