High on a hill in Western New York is the final resting place of a Titanic survivor and her husband who died that fateful day 109 years ago.
Elizabeth Barrett Rothschild was born on February 10, 1858 in Watkins Glen, New York. She and her husband, Martin Rothchild, boarded the Titanic and set sail out of England on April 10, 1912. Four days later, her world would change when the ocean liner struck an iceberg just before midnight, 375 miles south of Newfoundland in the North Atlantic.
Elizabeth, safely made it onto a lifeboat along with her dog. Her husband, Martin wasn t so lucky. Two hours and forty minutes after impact, the Titanic sank with more than 1500 aboard, including Elizabeth s husband Martin on April 15th, 1912.