Sophie was the daughter of John Easu and Marian Abrahim. She married to Joseph Abrahim and had a son Zackie. She was also Titanic survivor. Sophie was 18 when the Titanic sank. She was holding ticket number 2657 and was a third class passenger. Her destination was Greensburg, USA traveling from Ayn' Arab Lebanon.
She was a widowed housewife married to Joseph Abraham.
her parents were John Easu and Matian Abraham. Cause of death: ASHD
Friday, January 25, 2013
Sophie Abraham, Titanic Survivor account
Gazette Times (Pennsylvania)
April 22, 1912, P. 7
Woman Back in Greensburg.
Greensburg, PA---April 21---One of the titanic's rescued passengers arrived in Greensburg today---Mrs. Mary Abraham, aged 28, wife of Joseph Abraham, a Syrian, employed by the Kelly & Jones Company's iron and brass works here.
All the Syrian population here and many Americans crowded about the Pennsylvania railroad station to meet the woman. She had resided here four years. Several months ago she visited her native country. She said she was sleeping when the titanic struck. She fell from her berth. Others went up on deck to see what was the matter. They did not return. After a while, she went up to what was wrong. A man took her by the arm and tried to put her into a lifeboat about to be lowered. Another man pushed her away and tried to get in. The first man fired a revolver. The second man was not wounded, but he began to cry and wave his arms as if mad.
Falls Into Sea
The first man trid to push the woman into the boat, but she missed it and fell over the side. When she came to the surface after her plunge she was taken into a lifeboat. This boat was crowded. A big wave upset it and all were in the water. Another lifeboat picked Mrs. Abraham up with two or three others that had been in the boat that upset. She looked at the big ship with all the lights lit. Everybody was making a noise. The Titanic went down lower and lower until finally it was all gone and the lights were out.
Greensburg Daily Tribune
Saturday, June 5, 1915 P. 1
Woman Assaulted In Her Home During Absence of Husband
Survivor of Titanic Disaster Suffers More Misfortune at Hands of Miscreant Misfortune and trouble seems to follow Mrs. Joseph Abraham, a pretty little Assyrian woman, who resides in the Eighth ward. Mrs. Abraham was a passenger on the ill-afted (sic)ship Titanic that went to the bottom of the ocean about two years ago. After a heroic escape and a long siege of illness superinduced by the exposure she encountered, she arrived in Greensburg to be with her husband who tenderly nursed her to health.
A new terror came to her on Wednesday of this week. During the absence of her husband, who is employed at the works of the Kelly and Jones company, she alleges that Sam Abraham, said to be a small storekeeper in Mount Pleasant, appeared at her home and made an assault upon her. She opposed the man's advances as well as she could, but claims that she was cruelly treated. When the husband returned from work she told of the circumstances and Mr. Abraham hastened to the office of Squire James B. Small, and made information against Abraham, charging him with the crime.
On Friday afternoon, Detectrive Dan Dunmire arested the accused man. He succeeded in securing a bail bond to the extend of $500. He will be given a hearing before Squire Small on Tuesday. Mrs Wassūf Ibrāhīm (Sāfiyah Hālūt-Mariyam, aka Sophie Abrahim) was born in Shwayhad, Syria on 10 February 1894.
She was the daughter of Ibrāhīm Hālūt and Mariyam Ibrāhīm but was orphaned whilst still young and went to live with her married sister in Ayn al-Rāhib. She was married at a young age to Wassūf Ibrāhīm Hālūt (Joseph Abrahim, b. 15 June 1887), also a native of her village, and the couple had a daughter Zakīyah, on 9 August 1908.
The couple decided to emigrate to Pennsylvania where Sāfiyah already had family, including two brothers. Sāfiyah and Wassūf, leaving their daughter in the care of family, continued onward to the USA where, at Ellis Island in New York, Sāfiyah was refused entry due to a contagious eye infection and was ordered to return to Syria. On the advice of relatives already in America she went to Trinidad and spent time there before trying to re-enter the USA in 1911. Again refused permission because of her eye condition she returned to Syria and in early 1912 again made plans to enter the USA. In the meantime Sāfiyah's husband Wassūf had settled in Greensburg, Westmoreland, Pennsylvania where he gained employment the Kelly & Jones iron and brass works.
Sāfiyah left Syria and travelled from Beirut to Marseille then on to Cherbourg where she boarded the Titanic as a third class passenger (ticket number 2657 which cost £7, 4s, 7d). She was destined for Greensburg, Westmoreland, Pennsylvania where her husband and other family were living.
On the night of the sinking Sāfiyah was in bed and, following the collision, left her cabin and joined scores of other confused steerage passengers who were wandering around the public areas waiting for instructions. She eventually found her way to the upper decks and was rescued (possibly in collapsible C) although contemporary newspaper interviews with her were highly embellished accounts, with details of passengers being shot, boats being overturned, etc. In later years she recalled that she witnessed the ship sliding beneath the sea and the lights going out, the cries of those left behind being a sound which still haunted her.
Upon arrival in New York Sāfiyah was taken to St Vincent's Hospital for recuperation and given monetary assistance and travel allowance to complete her journey to Greensburg, Pennsylvania. She reached Greensburg where her brother awaited her. Her husband Wassūf had reportedly been unaware that she was aboard Titanic.
To assimilate to their new home Wassūf and Sāfiyah Ibrāhīm became Joseph and Sophie Abraham and on 4 October 1913 they welcomed a son, Zackie Halaut. Their daughter Zakīyah had, in the meantime, married, becoming Mrs Nador and settled in Trinidad and raised a large family. She was reportedly not reunited with her parents until 1947 and she eventually died in Lancaster, Pennsylvania in 1994. Sophie would outlive both her husband and son Zackie who died in 1952 and 1975 respectively.
Sophie herself never cared much to discuss the Titanic disaster but did give a rare newspaper interview to the Greensburg-Herald Tribune on 14 April 1967. She was a member of St Michael's Orthodox Church and the church's lady's guild.
Sophie Abraham died on 11 December 1976 aged 82 and is buried in Westmoreland County Memorial Park in Greensburg.
She was a widowed housewife married to Joseph Abraham.
her parents were John Easu and Matian Abraham. Cause of death: ASHD
Friday, January 25, 2013
Sophie Abraham, Titanic Survivor account
Gazette Times (Pennsylvania)
April 22, 1912, P. 7
Woman Back in Greensburg.
Greensburg, PA---April 21---One of the titanic's rescued passengers arrived in Greensburg today---Mrs. Mary Abraham, aged 28, wife of Joseph Abraham, a Syrian, employed by the Kelly & Jones Company's iron and brass works here.
All the Syrian population here and many Americans crowded about the Pennsylvania railroad station to meet the woman. She had resided here four years. Several months ago she visited her native country. She said she was sleeping when the titanic struck. She fell from her berth. Others went up on deck to see what was the matter. They did not return. After a while, she went up to what was wrong. A man took her by the arm and tried to put her into a lifeboat about to be lowered. Another man pushed her away and tried to get in. The first man fired a revolver. The second man was not wounded, but he began to cry and wave his arms as if mad.
Falls Into Sea
The first man trid to push the woman into the boat, but she missed it and fell over the side. When she came to the surface after her plunge she was taken into a lifeboat. This boat was crowded. A big wave upset it and all were in the water. Another lifeboat picked Mrs. Abraham up with two or three others that had been in the boat that upset. She looked at the big ship with all the lights lit. Everybody was making a noise. The Titanic went down lower and lower until finally it was all gone and the lights were out.
Greensburg Daily Tribune
Saturday, June 5, 1915 P. 1
Woman Assaulted In Her Home During Absence of Husband
Survivor of Titanic Disaster Suffers More Misfortune at Hands of Miscreant Misfortune and trouble seems to follow Mrs. Joseph Abraham, a pretty little Assyrian woman, who resides in the Eighth ward. Mrs. Abraham was a passenger on the ill-afted (sic)ship Titanic that went to the bottom of the ocean about two years ago. After a heroic escape and a long siege of illness superinduced by the exposure she encountered, she arrived in Greensburg to be with her husband who tenderly nursed her to health.
A new terror came to her on Wednesday of this week. During the absence of her husband, who is employed at the works of the Kelly and Jones company, she alleges that Sam Abraham, said to be a small storekeeper in Mount Pleasant, appeared at her home and made an assault upon her. She opposed the man's advances as well as she could, but claims that she was cruelly treated. When the husband returned from work she told of the circumstances and Mr. Abraham hastened to the office of Squire James B. Small, and made information against Abraham, charging him with the crime.
On Friday afternoon, Detectrive Dan Dunmire arested the accused man. He succeeded in securing a bail bond to the extend of $500. He will be given a hearing before Squire Small on Tuesday. Mrs Wassūf Ibrāhīm (Sāfiyah Hālūt-Mariyam, aka Sophie Abrahim) was born in Shwayhad, Syria on 10 February 1894.
She was the daughter of Ibrāhīm Hālūt and Mariyam Ibrāhīm but was orphaned whilst still young and went to live with her married sister in Ayn al-Rāhib. She was married at a young age to Wassūf Ibrāhīm Hālūt (Joseph Abrahim, b. 15 June 1887), also a native of her village, and the couple had a daughter Zakīyah, on 9 August 1908.
The couple decided to emigrate to Pennsylvania where Sāfiyah already had family, including two brothers. Sāfiyah and Wassūf, leaving their daughter in the care of family, continued onward to the USA where, at Ellis Island in New York, Sāfiyah was refused entry due to a contagious eye infection and was ordered to return to Syria. On the advice of relatives already in America she went to Trinidad and spent time there before trying to re-enter the USA in 1911. Again refused permission because of her eye condition she returned to Syria and in early 1912 again made plans to enter the USA. In the meantime Sāfiyah's husband Wassūf had settled in Greensburg, Westmoreland, Pennsylvania where he gained employment the Kelly & Jones iron and brass works.
Sāfiyah left Syria and travelled from Beirut to Marseille then on to Cherbourg where she boarded the Titanic as a third class passenger (ticket number 2657 which cost £7, 4s, 7d). She was destined for Greensburg, Westmoreland, Pennsylvania where her husband and other family were living.
On the night of the sinking Sāfiyah was in bed and, following the collision, left her cabin and joined scores of other confused steerage passengers who were wandering around the public areas waiting for instructions. She eventually found her way to the upper decks and was rescued (possibly in collapsible C) although contemporary newspaper interviews with her were highly embellished accounts, with details of passengers being shot, boats being overturned, etc. In later years she recalled that she witnessed the ship sliding beneath the sea and the lights going out, the cries of those left behind being a sound which still haunted her.
Upon arrival in New York Sāfiyah was taken to St Vincent's Hospital for recuperation and given monetary assistance and travel allowance to complete her journey to Greensburg, Pennsylvania. She reached Greensburg where her brother awaited her. Her husband Wassūf had reportedly been unaware that she was aboard Titanic.
To assimilate to their new home Wassūf and Sāfiyah Ibrāhīm became Joseph and Sophie Abraham and on 4 October 1913 they welcomed a son, Zackie Halaut. Their daughter Zakīyah had, in the meantime, married, becoming Mrs Nador and settled in Trinidad and raised a large family. She was reportedly not reunited with her parents until 1947 and she eventually died in Lancaster, Pennsylvania in 1994. Sophie would outlive both her husband and son Zackie who died in 1952 and 1975 respectively.
Sophie herself never cared much to discuss the Titanic disaster but did give a rare newspaper interview to the Greensburg-Herald Tribune on 14 April 1967. She was a member of St Michael's Orthodox Church and the church's lady's guild.
Sophie Abraham died on 11 December 1976 aged 82 and is buried in Westmoreland County Memorial Park in Greensburg.
Sophie was the daughter of John Easu and Marian Abrahim. She married to Joseph Abrahim and had a son Zackie. She was also Titanic survivor. Sophie was 18 when the Titanic sank. She was holding ticket number 2657 and was a third class passenger. Her destination was Greensburg, USA traveling from Ayn' Arab Lebanon.
She was a widowed housewife married to Joseph Abraham.
her parents were John Easu and Matian Abraham. Cause of death: ASHD
Friday, January 25, 2013
Sophie Abraham, Titanic Survivor account
Gazette Times (Pennsylvania)
April 22, 1912, P. 7
Woman Back in Greensburg.
Greensburg, PA---April 21---One of the titanic's rescued passengers arrived in Greensburg today---Mrs. Mary Abraham, aged 28, wife of Joseph Abraham, a Syrian, employed by the Kelly & Jones Company's iron and brass works here.
All the Syrian population here and many Americans crowded about the Pennsylvania railroad station to meet the woman. She had resided here four years. Several months ago she visited her native country. She said she was sleeping when the titanic struck. She fell from her berth. Others went up on deck to see what was the matter. They did not return. After a while, she went up to what was wrong. A man took her by the arm and tried to put her into a lifeboat about to be lowered. Another man pushed her away and tried to get in. The first man fired a revolver. The second man was not wounded, but he began to cry and wave his arms as if mad.
Falls Into Sea
The first man trid to push the woman into the boat, but she missed it and fell over the side. When she came to the surface after her plunge she was taken into a lifeboat. This boat was crowded. A big wave upset it and all were in the water. Another lifeboat picked Mrs. Abraham up with two or three others that had been in the boat that upset. She looked at the big ship with all the lights lit. Everybody was making a noise. The Titanic went down lower and lower until finally it was all gone and the lights were out.
Greensburg Daily Tribune
Saturday, June 5, 1915 P. 1
Woman Assaulted In Her Home During Absence of Husband
Survivor of Titanic Disaster Suffers More Misfortune at Hands of Miscreant Misfortune and trouble seems to follow Mrs. Joseph Abraham, a pretty little Assyrian woman, who resides in the Eighth ward. Mrs. Abraham was a passenger on the ill-afted (sic)ship Titanic that went to the bottom of the ocean about two years ago. After a heroic escape and a long siege of illness superinduced by the exposure she encountered, she arrived in Greensburg to be with her husband who tenderly nursed her to health.
A new terror came to her on Wednesday of this week. During the absence of her husband, who is employed at the works of the Kelly and Jones company, she alleges that Sam Abraham, said to be a small storekeeper in Mount Pleasant, appeared at her home and made an assault upon her. She opposed the man's advances as well as she could, but claims that she was cruelly treated. When the husband returned from work she told of the circumstances and Mr. Abraham hastened to the office of Squire James B. Small, and made information against Abraham, charging him with the crime.
On Friday afternoon, Detectrive Dan Dunmire arested the accused man. He succeeded in securing a bail bond to the extend of $500. He will be given a hearing before Squire Small on Tuesday. Mrs Wassūf Ibrāhīm (Sāfiyah Hālūt-Mariyam, aka Sophie Abrahim) was born in Shwayhad, Syria on 10 February 1894.
She was the daughter of Ibrāhīm Hālūt and Mariyam Ibrāhīm but was orphaned whilst still young and went to live with her married sister in Ayn al-Rāhib. She was married at a young age to Wassūf Ibrāhīm Hālūt (Joseph Abrahim, b. 15 June 1887), also a native of her village, and the couple had a daughter Zakīyah, on 9 August 1908.
The couple decided to emigrate to Pennsylvania where Sāfiyah already had family, including two brothers. Sāfiyah and Wassūf, leaving their daughter in the care of family, continued onward to the USA where, at Ellis Island in New York, Sāfiyah was refused entry due to a contagious eye infection and was ordered to return to Syria. On the advice of relatives already in America she went to Trinidad and spent time there before trying to re-enter the USA in 1911. Again refused permission because of her eye condition she returned to Syria and in early 1912 again made plans to enter the USA. In the meantime Sāfiyah's husband Wassūf had settled in Greensburg, Westmoreland, Pennsylvania where he gained employment the Kelly & Jones iron and brass works.
Sāfiyah left Syria and travelled from Beirut to Marseille then on to Cherbourg where she boarded the Titanic as a third class passenger (ticket number 2657 which cost £7, 4s, 7d). She was destined for Greensburg, Westmoreland, Pennsylvania where her husband and other family were living.
On the night of the sinking Sāfiyah was in bed and, following the collision, left her cabin and joined scores of other confused steerage passengers who were wandering around the public areas waiting for instructions. She eventually found her way to the upper decks and was rescued (possibly in collapsible C) although contemporary newspaper interviews with her were highly embellished accounts, with details of passengers being shot, boats being overturned, etc. In later years she recalled that she witnessed the ship sliding beneath the sea and the lights going out, the cries of those left behind being a sound which still haunted her.
Upon arrival in New York Sāfiyah was taken to St Vincent's Hospital for recuperation and given monetary assistance and travel allowance to complete her journey to Greensburg, Pennsylvania. She reached Greensburg where her brother awaited her. Her husband Wassūf had reportedly been unaware that she was aboard Titanic.
To assimilate to their new home Wassūf and Sāfiyah Ibrāhīm became Joseph and Sophie Abraham and on 4 October 1913 they welcomed a son, Zackie Halaut. Their daughter Zakīyah had, in the meantime, married, becoming Mrs Nador and settled in Trinidad and raised a large family. She was reportedly not reunited with her parents until 1947 and she eventually died in Lancaster, Pennsylvania in 1994. Sophie would outlive both her husband and son Zackie who died in 1952 and 1975 respectively.
Sophie herself never cared much to discuss the Titanic disaster but did give a rare newspaper interview to the Greensburg-Herald Tribune on 14 April 1967. She was a member of St Michael's Orthodox Church and the church's lady's guild.
Sophie Abraham died on 11 December 1976 aged 82 and is buried in Westmoreland County Memorial Park in Greensburg.
She was a widowed housewife married to Joseph Abraham.
her parents were John Easu and Matian Abraham. Cause of death: ASHD
Friday, January 25, 2013
Sophie Abraham, Titanic Survivor account
Gazette Times (Pennsylvania)
April 22, 1912, P. 7
Woman Back in Greensburg.
Greensburg, PA---April 21---One of the titanic's rescued passengers arrived in Greensburg today---Mrs. Mary Abraham, aged 28, wife of Joseph Abraham, a Syrian, employed by the Kelly & Jones Company's iron and brass works here.
All the Syrian population here and many Americans crowded about the Pennsylvania railroad station to meet the woman. She had resided here four years. Several months ago she visited her native country. She said she was sleeping when the titanic struck. She fell from her berth. Others went up on deck to see what was the matter. They did not return. After a while, she went up to what was wrong. A man took her by the arm and tried to put her into a lifeboat about to be lowered. Another man pushed her away and tried to get in. The first man fired a revolver. The second man was not wounded, but he began to cry and wave his arms as if mad.
Falls Into Sea
The first man trid to push the woman into the boat, but she missed it and fell over the side. When she came to the surface after her plunge she was taken into a lifeboat. This boat was crowded. A big wave upset it and all were in the water. Another lifeboat picked Mrs. Abraham up with two or three others that had been in the boat that upset. She looked at the big ship with all the lights lit. Everybody was making a noise. The Titanic went down lower and lower until finally it was all gone and the lights were out.
Greensburg Daily Tribune
Saturday, June 5, 1915 P. 1
Woman Assaulted In Her Home During Absence of Husband
Survivor of Titanic Disaster Suffers More Misfortune at Hands of Miscreant Misfortune and trouble seems to follow Mrs. Joseph Abraham, a pretty little Assyrian woman, who resides in the Eighth ward. Mrs. Abraham was a passenger on the ill-afted (sic)ship Titanic that went to the bottom of the ocean about two years ago. After a heroic escape and a long siege of illness superinduced by the exposure she encountered, she arrived in Greensburg to be with her husband who tenderly nursed her to health.
A new terror came to her on Wednesday of this week. During the absence of her husband, who is employed at the works of the Kelly and Jones company, she alleges that Sam Abraham, said to be a small storekeeper in Mount Pleasant, appeared at her home and made an assault upon her. She opposed the man's advances as well as she could, but claims that she was cruelly treated. When the husband returned from work she told of the circumstances and Mr. Abraham hastened to the office of Squire James B. Small, and made information against Abraham, charging him with the crime.
On Friday afternoon, Detectrive Dan Dunmire arested the accused man. He succeeded in securing a bail bond to the extend of $500. He will be given a hearing before Squire Small on Tuesday. Mrs Wassūf Ibrāhīm (Sāfiyah Hālūt-Mariyam, aka Sophie Abrahim) was born in Shwayhad, Syria on 10 February 1894.
She was the daughter of Ibrāhīm Hālūt and Mariyam Ibrāhīm but was orphaned whilst still young and went to live with her married sister in Ayn al-Rāhib. She was married at a young age to Wassūf Ibrāhīm Hālūt (Joseph Abrahim, b. 15 June 1887), also a native of her village, and the couple had a daughter Zakīyah, on 9 August 1908.
The couple decided to emigrate to Pennsylvania where Sāfiyah already had family, including two brothers. Sāfiyah and Wassūf, leaving their daughter in the care of family, continued onward to the USA where, at Ellis Island in New York, Sāfiyah was refused entry due to a contagious eye infection and was ordered to return to Syria. On the advice of relatives already in America she went to Trinidad and spent time there before trying to re-enter the USA in 1911. Again refused permission because of her eye condition she returned to Syria and in early 1912 again made plans to enter the USA. In the meantime Sāfiyah's husband Wassūf had settled in Greensburg, Westmoreland, Pennsylvania where he gained employment the Kelly & Jones iron and brass works.
Sāfiyah left Syria and travelled from Beirut to Marseille then on to Cherbourg where she boarded the Titanic as a third class passenger (ticket number 2657 which cost £7, 4s, 7d). She was destined for Greensburg, Westmoreland, Pennsylvania where her husband and other family were living.
On the night of the sinking Sāfiyah was in bed and, following the collision, left her cabin and joined scores of other confused steerage passengers who were wandering around the public areas waiting for instructions. She eventually found her way to the upper decks and was rescued (possibly in collapsible C) although contemporary newspaper interviews with her were highly embellished accounts, with details of passengers being shot, boats being overturned, etc. In later years she recalled that she witnessed the ship sliding beneath the sea and the lights going out, the cries of those left behind being a sound which still haunted her.
Upon arrival in New York Sāfiyah was taken to St Vincent's Hospital for recuperation and given monetary assistance and travel allowance to complete her journey to Greensburg, Pennsylvania. She reached Greensburg where her brother awaited her. Her husband Wassūf had reportedly been unaware that she was aboard Titanic.
To assimilate to their new home Wassūf and Sāfiyah Ibrāhīm became Joseph and Sophie Abraham and on 4 October 1913 they welcomed a son, Zackie Halaut. Their daughter Zakīyah had, in the meantime, married, becoming Mrs Nador and settled in Trinidad and raised a large family. She was reportedly not reunited with her parents until 1947 and she eventually died in Lancaster, Pennsylvania in 1994. Sophie would outlive both her husband and son Zackie who died in 1952 and 1975 respectively.
Sophie herself never cared much to discuss the Titanic disaster but did give a rare newspaper interview to the Greensburg-Herald Tribune on 14 April 1967. She was a member of St Michael's Orthodox Church and the church's lady's guild.
Sophie Abraham died on 11 December 1976 aged 82 and is buried in Westmoreland County Memorial Park in Greensburg.
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