Juliet Cummins Taylor was a passenger on Titanic.
Biography[]
Juliet Cummins Wright was born on November 30, 1862 in Smyrna, Delaware, USA. She was the second youngest of 5 children born to Joseph Wright and Elizabeth Carter. Her eldest sister was: Lillie Elizabeth, born in 1855 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In 1857, the family resided in Smyrna, where Lillie had a brother named Joseph Henry. Another son was born in 1861, Samuel Edgar. After Juliet, a baby sister followed in 1865.
Her father was a carpenter and English from origin, having a background in Bewdley, Worcestershire. Her mother was also from Worcestershire. Juliet lost her mother at a young age, she was less than 8 years old and her mother was 35 when she passed in 1868.
Juliet married Elmer Zebley Taylor on March 24, 1886 in Kent, Delaware. Taylor was from the same native town as Juliet and was graduated in machinery. He took part many endeavours regarding the automation process and became a manufactorer in plastic cups.
He erected the Mono Service Company in 1906. For his métiers, he had to travel extensively. They were resident in England in from 1890-1912, as Elmer was now head of the affiliates in Paris and London since 1910. In the Spring of 1912, they were in London visiting a factory.
From London, they went with the boat-train to Southampton to take voyage on a ship, wanting to spend the summer time in East Orange, New Jersey, as had become a recurring habit every year. Fletcher Lambert-Williams, whom Elmer had a partnership with at his corporation, met them during the train journey.
Titanic[]
Juliet was 49 years old when she was in Southampton with her partner, being welcomed aboard Titanic in First Class on April 10. The ship left port after noon. They had berths in Cabin C-126. Fletcher Lambert-Williams was also present, he had a cabin nearby.
On April 14, an iceberg became an interloper in stopping Titanic from having a smooth sailing at late night. She was somehow spotted too late and seemingly came out of nowhere. First Officer Murdoch attempted to sway the Titanic around the obstacle on the port side with engines in reverse to slow her down, but it was too late. The ship had scratched her hull over a broad part of her hull on starboard side. The damage was underneath the water line so the water started coming in fast. As she was with her thoughts in a book, Miss Taylor was shaken up and the ship, in her own words, seemed to have lifted itself from the water for a split of a second. She spotted the iceberg through a porthole and her husband and her were more intrigued than pertubed. They dressed in a rush and went out, while everything was still calm. One crewmember told them they should take lifevests and go up on deck, with the notion that there was nothing problematic.
On April 15, the peril in which the ship had found herself was now clear to the captain. The ship would sink in a few hours according to Thomas Andrews. Captain Smith started an evacuation just after midnight. Meanwhile, Juliet and Elmer had found ice somwhere. They were on their way to the Boat Deck, when her husband knocked on the door of cabin C-128 where his businesspartner Lambert-Williams was, enjoying himself with a book, cigar and drink. Elmer showed him the ice, but he didn’t want to be disturbed further for what he believed to be nothing but trivial, so they left him. He stayed in his cabin and didn’t survive the sinking later.
Juliet and her man reached the lifeboats. They took the second lifeboat to be launched at 1:28 A.M: lifeboat 5. Juliet got in first. Elmer had to jump for it when the boat was starting to be lowered. At 2:20 A.M, the end of Titanic came. Juliet couldn’t ever forget how the people were screaming in her final moments.
After the sinking[]
As survivors of the sinking of the Titanic, the pair and the other occupants of the boat had to wait for rescue. At 4:00 A.M, a ship came to pick up those that remained after having escaped one of maritime disasters in human history. It was the RMS Carpathia who had responded to her CQD-signal. Carpathia spent the morning gathering everyone, to then navigate her way to New York and care for the survivors in the meantime.
Having arrived on April 18, the Taylors disembarked from the Carpathia, continuing on to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, but they relocated to England soon after that to live there for 2 years.
Later life[]
In 1914, they were resident in their favorite place: East Orange. The Titanic disaster, no matter how impactful it was, they shrugged it off and the Taylor couple would take voyage on many ships together, which would include Titanic’s sister Olympic, the famous Mauretania and the elegant Queen Elizabeth, besides various other exquisith liners.
Mrs. Taylor became 64 years old when she passed away in April 24, 1927. She left no children behind.
Mr. Taylor remarried twice over the next two decades and kept crossing the Atlantic Ocean which in total must have been over 60 times, as he went on even in his senior years. He lived until 1949 and became 85 years old. He didn’t have any off-spring, as far as is known.