Cornelia T. Andrews
Miss Cornelia Theodosia Andrews was a First Class passenger aboard Titanic.
Kornelia Andrews was born on Sunday 12th August 1848, in Hudson, New York, to her parents Mr Robert Emmet and Mrs Matilda Fonda Andrews. Her father was a lawyer. Miss Andrews had graduated from Oberlin College, and had been a leader in society and charitable work.
She was set to return to her home in Hudson, New York, traveling with her sister, Anna Hogeboom and their niece Gretchen Fiske Longley. They boarded Titanic in Southampton. Cornelia was in cabin D-7.
At the time of the iceberg collision, Miss Andrews was in bed. She said in a letter to a relative, that she had seen ice crystals that had come through a port hole, and then she realised it came from an iceberg. She further wrote that she had sent out Gretchen to fetch a steward for information, and the crew told them there was no danger, so she went back to bed, only to be told a while later they should put on their life preservers and go up on deck.
Once on deck, Miss Andrews and her relatives boarded lifeboat 10. Onboard she assisted with the rowing of the boat, and commented later how very critical she was of the crew, that had no idea how to steer the boat.
Cornelia Andrews died at her home in Hudson, New York, on 4th December 1913, from lobar pneumonia. She was buried on the 5th December 1913, in Hudson, New York.