Eva Hart was a 2nd class passenger on R.M.S Titanic (survivor)
Her mother Emily Esther Louisa Hart was also on R.M.S Titanic and was a survivor.
Her father Benjamin Hart was also on R.M.S Titanic. Sadly he was lost. His body was not recovered.
Seven years old when she sailed on the Titanic with her family, Eva Hart was the last remaining survivor with memories of the event before she died at age 91 in 1996. Hart, who later became a magistrate and received the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (MBE), gave a series of fascinating televised interviews about her recollections. She remembers how her mother made her father go up on deck to check out what had happened, "literally pulling him out of bed," she said, and after he returned, her parents quickly and without a word got bundled to go back up. "If we hadn't done that at that time, I very much doubt I'd be talking to you today...It was a question of who was there in time to get into the all too few lifeboats." As her father put her in a boat and told her to hold her mother's hand, "then it dawned on me that he wasn't coming, that I wouldn't see him anymore." She added that if there had been enough lifeboats, "no one would have died that night at all."
In a twist right out of 1997's Titanic, Hart's father gave her mother his coat, which had in its pocket the only known letter written on Titanic stationery the day of the sinking. Hart's mother had penned it earlier and intended to mail it to her own mother. Hart scrawled at the end of the letter, which went up for auction in 2014, "Heaps of love and kisses to all from Eva." Here's another account of a family's legend of a "Titanic coat."
Her mother Emily Esther Louisa Hart was also on R.M.S Titanic and was a survivor.
Her father Benjamin Hart was also on R.M.S Titanic. Sadly he was lost. His body was not recovered.
Seven years old when she sailed on the Titanic with her family, Eva Hart was the last remaining survivor with memories of the event before she died at age 91 in 1996. Hart, who later became a magistrate and received the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (MBE), gave a series of fascinating televised interviews about her recollections. She remembers how her mother made her father go up on deck to check out what had happened, "literally pulling him out of bed," she said, and after he returned, her parents quickly and without a word got bundled to go back up. "If we hadn't done that at that time, I very much doubt I'd be talking to you today...It was a question of who was there in time to get into the all too few lifeboats." As her father put her in a boat and told her to hold her mother's hand, "then it dawned on me that he wasn't coming, that I wouldn't see him anymore." She added that if there had been enough lifeboats, "no one would have died that night at all."
In a twist right out of 1997's Titanic, Hart's father gave her mother his coat, which had in its pocket the only known letter written on Titanic stationery the day of the sinking. Hart's mother had penned it earlier and intended to mail it to her own mother. Hart scrawled at the end of the letter, which went up for auction in 2014, "Heaps of love and kisses to all from Eva." Here's another account of a family's legend of a "Titanic coat."
Eva Hart was a 2nd class passenger on R.M.S Titanic (survivor)
Her mother Emily Esther Louisa Hart was also on R.M.S Titanic and was a survivor.
Her father Benjamin Hart was also on R.M.S Titanic. Sadly he was lost. His body was not recovered.
Seven years old when she sailed on the Titanic with her family, Eva Hart was the last remaining survivor with memories of the event before she died at age 91 in 1996. Hart, who later became a magistrate and received the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (MBE), gave a series of fascinating televised interviews about her recollections. She remembers how her mother made her father go up on deck to check out what had happened, "literally pulling him out of bed," she said, and after he returned, her parents quickly and without a word got bundled to go back up. "If we hadn't done that at that time, I very much doubt I'd be talking to you today...It was a question of who was there in time to get into the all too few lifeboats." As her father put her in a boat and told her to hold her mother's hand, "then it dawned on me that he wasn't coming, that I wouldn't see him anymore." She added that if there had been enough lifeboats, "no one would have died that night at all."
In a twist right out of 1997's Titanic, Hart's father gave her mother his coat, which had in its pocket the only known letter written on Titanic stationery the day of the sinking. Hart's mother had penned it earlier and intended to mail it to her own mother. Hart scrawled at the end of the letter, which went up for auction in 2014, "Heaps of love and kisses to all from Eva." Here's another account of a family's legend of a "Titanic coat."
Her mother Emily Esther Louisa Hart was also on R.M.S Titanic and was a survivor.
Her father Benjamin Hart was also on R.M.S Titanic. Sadly he was lost. His body was not recovered.
Seven years old when she sailed on the Titanic with her family, Eva Hart was the last remaining survivor with memories of the event before she died at age 91 in 1996. Hart, who later became a magistrate and received the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (MBE), gave a series of fascinating televised interviews about her recollections. She remembers how her mother made her father go up on deck to check out what had happened, "literally pulling him out of bed," she said, and after he returned, her parents quickly and without a word got bundled to go back up. "If we hadn't done that at that time, I very much doubt I'd be talking to you today...It was a question of who was there in time to get into the all too few lifeboats." As her father put her in a boat and told her to hold her mother's hand, "then it dawned on me that he wasn't coming, that I wouldn't see him anymore." She added that if there had been enough lifeboats, "no one would have died that night at all."
In a twist right out of 1997's Titanic, Hart's father gave her mother his coat, which had in its pocket the only known letter written on Titanic stationery the day of the sinking. Hart's mother had penned it earlier and intended to mail it to her own mother. Hart scrawled at the end of the letter, which went up for auction in 2014, "Heaps of love and kisses to all from Eva." Here's another account of a family's legend of a "Titanic coat."
Inscription
A tree was planted in Chadwell Heath Park in her memory with a plaque at the base where her ashes were buried under the tree.
Gravesite Details
Cremation Date: February 22, 1996
