<p>ABC #069, segment 2</p>
<p>Eleanor Elkins Widener was one of the wealthiest people on the Titanic.  She watched helplessly from a lifeboat as the mighty ocean liner went down, taking her husband George and son Harry with it.  Her second marriage was to an Amazonian explorer whom she met at the dedication of a Harvard library named for her son.  </p>


All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories

Eleanor Widener Rice: She Lost Her Husband and Son (by Lora Lewis)

Tales for taphophiles of permanent residents of Laurel Hill Cemetery in Philadelphia and West Laurel Hill Cemetery in Bala Cywnyd, Pennsylvania. Often educational, always entertaining.