May 5th, 1860 - October 6th, 1947

She is a Taurus.

Anna Louisa Andrews was born in Livingston, Columbia, New York and was baptized on April 8th, 1912 in the Reformed Church in Linlithigo, Columbia. She was the youngest child of Robert Emmet Andreas (1819 - 1901), a lawyer and later judge, and Matilda Scudder Fonda (1821 - 1911), both natives of New York who had married around 1845, and she had 8 known siblings: Emmet Fonda (1847 - 1847), Cornelia Theodosia (born 1848), Louisa Fonda (born 1851), Mary Deare (born 1850, later Mrs. Levi Fiske Longley), Urania Nolt (born 1856), Robert Emmet (born 1852), Matilda (born 1853), and Roberta Etta (1857 - 1930, later Mrs. Arthur H. Flack). She first appears on the 1860 census as an infant living with her family in Livingston but was living in Hudson, New York by the time of the 1870 census and was still listed in that locale by the time of the 1875 and 1860 censuses.

She was married to a man named Percival Cadby (born 1861). Little known about Cadby buts it's acknowledged that was he English-born, possibly hailing from Birmingham, and he had come to the USA in 1871. Anna and Percival had 3 children: Mathilda Andrews (born 1885, later Mrs. Carl Andrew Weiant), Kenneth Scudder (1888 - 1893), and Robert Andrews (born 1891). What became of Percival Cadby isn't clear. Anna was married again around 1898 to John Clinton Hogeboom (born 1837), a lawyer. Born in Hudson, New York, Hogeboom had also a previous marriage, to Clara Esselstyn (born 1937) and had 2 children: Sarah Vedder (born 1864) and Henry (born 1869). Hogeboom and Anna would would have no children of their own and continued to reside in Hudson; Anna was listed on the 1900 census living at the home of her parents. She was widowed in 1908.

Aboard Titanic/April 14th-15th, 1912:
No stranger to travel Anna had, at the age of 18, spent time travelling Europe, visiting France, England, and Switzerland. She had been travelling in France and Italy since November of 1911 and was returning to Hudson with Cornelia and niece Gretchen Longley. The 3 ladies boarded the RMS Titanic at Southampton as 1st class passengers. Anna occupied cabin D-11. Anna later recalled being awakened by a crash and reportedly saw ice crystals apparently deposited through open portholes. Upon asking a steward what was the matter, the ladies were reassured and told to go back to bed but the continued commotion outside their cabin caused them to stir again and they were soon told to, as a precaution, put on their lifebelts.

Hurriedly readying themselves, the girls only threw on fur coats over their nightclothes and donned their lifebelts before heading to the boat deck where they waited for what they described as the 4th lifeboat (possibly lifeboat 10):

"..The discipline on the Titanic, in a way, was good... No one hurried and no one crowded. We waited for the fourth boat and were slowly lowered seventy-five feet to the water. The men made no effort to get into the boat. As we pulled away we saw them all standing in an unbroken line on the deck..."

Once the lifeboat was launched the occupants of the boat noticed a lack of able seamen. Anna recalled that 2 male passengers, an Asian and an American, were unable to row and several of the women, including Gretchen, took to the oars. From her vantage point in the lifeboat Anna was astonished at how much the bow of Titanic had settled into the water. She later described hearing blasts, which she attributed to boilers exploding, following which lights on the ship were extinguished and the vessel then broke in two.

After The Sinking/Later Life/Death:
Anna, like many survivors, commented on the sounds of those struggling in the water as horrific. As time passed and the cries subsided Anna saw much ice around her, seeing one ice field in the distance which she believed was about a mile in length. In one of the last lifeboats picked up by the RMS Carpathia, Anna, Gretchen, and Cornelia refused officers to stay in a stateroom as there was other people in much worst condition. They instead slept in the lounge. Clad only in a nightdress with a fur coat covering her, Anna suffered from the cold and had all but lost her voice by the time she arrived in New York. Upon their arrival the 3 ladies went to the home of Robertha at Central Avenue, East Orange, New Jersey.

Following the disaster, Anna continued to travel. Her 1922 passport describes her as standing at 5'3 tall, with a fair complexion, a round face set with grey eyes and brown hair that was greying. A distinguishing feature was a scar on her left cheek which was the result of a dog bite. She appeared on the 1920 census living with her daughter and her family in Madison, Ohio and the 1930 census with her son Robert and his family in Hillsdale, Columbia, New York. She was back in Ohio with her daughter by the time of the 1940 census. One voyage she took in 1925 aboard De Grasse put her address as Cambridge Street, East Orange, New Jersey and another in 1929 aboard Rotterdam has her address as Central Avenue, East Orange. Anna died in Chatham, Columbia, New York on October 7th, 1947 at the age of 87 and she was buried in Cedar Park Cemetery, Hudson, New York. Cornelia is buried in the same cemetery.

Her daughter Mathilda died in Licking, Ohio on November 1st, 1865. Her son Robert married Geneva Gullberg (1898 - 1994) and their son, Robert Jr. died during WW2 on November 13th, 1942 and is buried in Manila American Cemetery in Manila, Philippines. Robert SnR died in 1949.

Sources:
www.encyclopedia-titanica.org

Rest In Peace Anna Louisa Hogeboom.