Excerpts from The Newark Evening News of 1912
EAST ORANGE PEOPLE REPORTED SAVED
Newark Evening News
Tuesday 16 April 1912
Word has been received by Colonel Henry A. Potter, of 95
Harrison street, East
Orange, that Mrs. Thomas Potter Jr., his brother’s widow, is
among the
passengers who were rescued from the Titanic. With her was her
daughter, Mrs.
Boulton Earnshaw, and a friend, all three being residents of
Philadelphia.
From the message received by Colonel Potter early this morning,
Mrs. Potter and
the friend are on the Carpathia. Nothing is said in the message
about Mrs.
Earnshaw, but it was later learned that she escaped death.
Mrs. Potter and Mrs. Earnshaw are well known in the Oranges. They
went abroad
in January, and spent most of the time in the Holy Land. Thomas
Potter Jr.
died last year. His other brother is William Potter, formerly
Minister to
Italy.
Among other passengers reported saved on the ill-fated ship well
known in East
Orange are Mr. and Mrs. E. Z. Taylor, who spent their summers at
the Edgemere,
301 William street. Mr. Taylor is the American representative of
a British
syndicate and had planned to spend the coming summer in East
Orange.
Mrs. W. Anderson Walker, whose husband was
on the ship, had heard nothing up to
noon that would either confirm her fears or give her hope that he
had been
among the saved. She was in a state of nervous collapse, and
friends at the
Walker home, 72 East Park street, would not let visitors see her.
Mr. Walker is prominent socially in East Orange, and active in
Masonic circles,
having been elected last December master of Hope Lodge. F. and A.
M.
Mr. Walker had been in London on a business trip to the firm of
rain goods
manufacturers in that city, whose representative he has been for
the past
eighteen years in New York. He sailed for England on March 27 on
the Olympic,
the sister ship of the Titanic.
While Mr. and Mrs. H. D. Newson, of Llewellyn Park, West Orange,
had no
relatives on the Titanic, they are anxiously seeking information
about their
friends, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Ryerson, of Haverford, Pa.
The Ryersons were returning from Europe with their two daughters
and one son to
attend the funeral of another son, Arthur Larned Ryerson, who was
killed in an
automobile accident in Philadelphia Monday of last week.
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TITANIC VICTIM'S WILL ADMITTED TO PROBATE
Newark Evening News
Saturday 27 April 1912
No especial proof of death was required by the surrogate
today, when the first will of a Titanic victim, William Anderson
Walker, the head of Hope Lodge, No. 124, F. and A. M., of East
Orange, was offered for probate by his widow, Mrs. Frances
Moorhouse Walker.
The testament, which left all Mr. Walker’s estate to his
widow, naming her executrix, was probated without question. It
was dated November 7, 1905.
Mr. Walker had but one other surviving relative, a sister, Mrs.
Elizabeth L. Allen, of Cambridge, England.