Mrs Norman Campbell Chambers (Bertha Griggs) was born as in Friendship, Allegany, New York on 10 October 1879.1
She was the daughter of Ira D. Griggs (1855-1923) and Dr Elma Call (1860-1922). Her father, a printer, hailed from Michigan and her mother, a physician, was from New York and Bertha was their only surviving child.
She was married sometime after 1905 to Norman Campbell Chambers (b. 1884), a mechanical engineer originally from Olean, New York. The couple remained childless and divided their time between travelling extensively and living in Manhattan and Ithaca, the latter being where Bertha's mother remained. Her mother eventually died on 24 February 1922.
Bertha and her husband boarded the Titanic at Southampton on 10 April 1912 as first class passengers, occupying cabin E8 (ticket number 113806 which cost £53, 2s).
On the night of the sinking the couple were in bed at the time of the collision. Bertha asked her husband to go and investigate which he did, ascending to starboard A-deck but finding nothing amiss. He returned to the cabin and both he and Bertha went out to investigate again, noting that the ship was starting to list over to starboard. They returned to their stateroom to finish dressing and at the end of the passage to saw the mail clerks, wet to their knees. After some jovial exchange with the mail clerks three officers came down and reported that the ship was not taking any more water. Norman and Bertha returned to their stateroom and their steward came by and told them they could go back to bed. He finished dressing and Bertha again went out, soon returning after being informed by another passenger that the call had been given out for people to put on lifebelts and assemble on the boat deck. Her husband went out and found their steward, who verified the order.
On their way up to the boatdeck a steward passed steamer rugs to the couple; they waited on the forward starboard boatdeck and Bertha soon entered lifeboat 5, calling for her husband to join her, which he did. The couple survived the sinking and returned to New York aboard Carpathia.
taken from Encyclopdia Titanica
She was the daughter of Ira D. Griggs (1855-1923) and Dr Elma Call (1860-1922). Her father, a printer, hailed from Michigan and her mother, a physician, was from New York and Bertha was their only surviving child.
She was married sometime after 1905 to Norman Campbell Chambers (b. 1884), a mechanical engineer originally from Olean, New York. The couple remained childless and divided their time between travelling extensively and living in Manhattan and Ithaca, the latter being where Bertha's mother remained. Her mother eventually died on 24 February 1922.
Bertha and her husband boarded the Titanic at Southampton on 10 April 1912 as first class passengers, occupying cabin E8 (ticket number 113806 which cost £53, 2s).
On the night of the sinking the couple were in bed at the time of the collision. Bertha asked her husband to go and investigate which he did, ascending to starboard A-deck but finding nothing amiss. He returned to the cabin and both he and Bertha went out to investigate again, noting that the ship was starting to list over to starboard. They returned to their stateroom to finish dressing and at the end of the passage to saw the mail clerks, wet to their knees. After some jovial exchange with the mail clerks three officers came down and reported that the ship was not taking any more water. Norman and Bertha returned to their stateroom and their steward came by and told them they could go back to bed. He finished dressing and Bertha again went out, soon returning after being informed by another passenger that the call had been given out for people to put on lifebelts and assemble on the boat deck. Her husband went out and found their steward, who verified the order.
On their way up to the boatdeck a steward passed steamer rugs to the couple; they waited on the forward starboard boatdeck and Bertha soon entered lifeboat 5, calling for her husband to join her, which he did. The couple survived the sinking and returned to New York aboard Carpathia.
taken from Encyclopdia Titanica
Mrs Norman Campbell Chambers (Bertha Griggs) was born as in Friendship, Allegany, New York on 10 October 1879.1
She was the daughter of Ira D. Griggs (1855-1923) and Dr Elma Call (1860-1922). Her father, a printer, hailed from Michigan and her mother, a physician, was from New York and Bertha was their only surviving child.
She was married sometime after 1905 to Norman Campbell Chambers (b. 1884), a mechanical engineer originally from Olean, New York. The couple remained childless and divided their time between travelling extensively and living in Manhattan and Ithaca, the latter being where Bertha's mother remained. Her mother eventually died on 24 February 1922.
Bertha and her husband boarded the Titanic at Southampton on 10 April 1912 as first class passengers, occupying cabin E8 (ticket number 113806 which cost £53, 2s).
On the night of the sinking the couple were in bed at the time of the collision. Bertha asked her husband to go and investigate which he did, ascending to starboard A-deck but finding nothing amiss. He returned to the cabin and both he and Bertha went out to investigate again, noting that the ship was starting to list over to starboard. They returned to their stateroom to finish dressing and at the end of the passage to saw the mail clerks, wet to their knees. After some jovial exchange with the mail clerks three officers came down and reported that the ship was not taking any more water. Norman and Bertha returned to their stateroom and their steward came by and told them they could go back to bed. He finished dressing and Bertha again went out, soon returning after being informed by another passenger that the call had been given out for people to put on lifebelts and assemble on the boat deck. Her husband went out and found their steward, who verified the order.
On their way up to the boatdeck a steward passed steamer rugs to the couple; they waited on the forward starboard boatdeck and Bertha soon entered lifeboat 5, calling for her husband to join her, which he did. The couple survived the sinking and returned to New York aboard Carpathia.
taken from Encyclopdia Titanica
She was the daughter of Ira D. Griggs (1855-1923) and Dr Elma Call (1860-1922). Her father, a printer, hailed from Michigan and her mother, a physician, was from New York and Bertha was their only surviving child.
She was married sometime after 1905 to Norman Campbell Chambers (b. 1884), a mechanical engineer originally from Olean, New York. The couple remained childless and divided their time between travelling extensively and living in Manhattan and Ithaca, the latter being where Bertha's mother remained. Her mother eventually died on 24 February 1922.
Bertha and her husband boarded the Titanic at Southampton on 10 April 1912 as first class passengers, occupying cabin E8 (ticket number 113806 which cost £53, 2s).
On the night of the sinking the couple were in bed at the time of the collision. Bertha asked her husband to go and investigate which he did, ascending to starboard A-deck but finding nothing amiss. He returned to the cabin and both he and Bertha went out to investigate again, noting that the ship was starting to list over to starboard. They returned to their stateroom to finish dressing and at the end of the passage to saw the mail clerks, wet to their knees. After some jovial exchange with the mail clerks three officers came down and reported that the ship was not taking any more water. Norman and Bertha returned to their stateroom and their steward came by and told them they could go back to bed. He finished dressing and Bertha again went out, soon returning after being informed by another passenger that the call had been given out for people to put on lifebelts and assemble on the boat deck. Her husband went out and found their steward, who verified the order.
On their way up to the boatdeck a steward passed steamer rugs to the couple; they waited on the forward starboard boatdeck and Bertha soon entered lifeboat 5, calling for her husband to join her, which he did. The couple survived the sinking and returned to New York aboard Carpathia.
taken from Encyclopdia Titanica
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