Charlotte Appleton
Mrs Charlotte Appleton was a First Class passenger travelling home from Britain, with her sisters, Malvina Helen Cornell and Caroline Lane Brown. They had been in Britain to attend the funeral of their sister, Lady Drummond. Charlotte Appleton, the daughter of Charles Lamson and Elizabeth Robert Marshall, was born in New York City, on 12 December 1858. Her father was an important figure in the import and shipping business.
Charlotte married to book publisher Edward Dale Appleton in 1894; the couple lived in New York.
The three women boarded Titanic at Southampton, and were in cabin C-101. Colonel Archibald Gracie was a acquiantance of them. Her husband knew him, they were friends since they both attended the St. Paul's Academy in Concord, New Hampshire. They talked a lot with him about their fourth sister.
On April 14, Titanic had a collision with an iceberg. Charlotte and her sister, Malvina Helen Cornell all went up on deck and survived the sinking by boarding lifeboat 2 which left the ship very late, at 1:40 A.M.; her other sister Caroline Lane Brown had become separated from her sisters boarded and survived upon Collapsible D, which was the last lifeboat to be lowered by the davits. The ladies Mrs Douglas and Miss Elisabeth Allen were also in that boat and they later said that Mrs Appleton and Mrs Cornell both rowed and kept rowing and rowing.
Onboard their rescue ship, Carpathia, the sisters were surprised to find that their aunt and uncle, Mr and Mrs Charles Marshall, were among Carpathia’s own passengers.
Following the disaster, Mrs. Appleton returned to her home in New York where she lived for the rest of her life.
Charlotte Appleton died on Wednesday 25th June 1924, at Flushing Hospital, New York. She was buried at Woodlawn Cemetery, New York, on 27th June 1924.