December 6th, 1887 - August 21st. 1956

She is a Sagittarius.

Margaret Bechstein Hays was born in New York City.

Aboard Titanic/April 14th-15th, 1912:
As a resident of West 83rd Street, New York City she boarded the RMS Titanic at Cherbourg. She travelled with Lily Potter and Olive Earnshaw. Olive and Margaret had been school friends at Briarcliff School in New York. Olive and Margaret shared cabin C-54. Their self appointed "escort" Gilbert Tucker took cabin C-53. Gilbert had met the 3 ladies during their travels and fell immediately for Margaret. A handsome man, Cornell University graduate, and a 31 year old bachelor, he has travelled with his parents and sister to Europe but left them to head home earlier than planned to spend more time with Margaret. On the evening of April 14th, 1912 the 3 ladies were in bed when the Titanic collided with the iceberg at 11:40 PM. Soon after, the engines stopped and Olive and Margaret went to Lily's room. Lily ordered them to go out and see what the trouble was. About 2 minutes, they reported: "We have hit an iceberg but the steward told us we should not worry and should go back to bed." Margaret apparently thought little of the incident but Lily was more frightened.

After dressing they wrapped Margaret's little Pomeranian dog in blankets and headed topside, they met Gilbert along the way. Waiting for orders at the landing on D deck, Gilbert helped Lily, Margaret, and Olive into lifebelts before placing one on himself. The group then went to the Boat Deck. As Margaret stood waiting and holding her Pomeranian, James Clinch Smith passed by and jokingly commented, "Oh I suppose we ought to put a life preserve on the little doggie, too." Lifeboat 7 was the first boat prepared and, after a call for women was made Lily stepped into the boat, closely followed by Olive and Margaret (still holding her Pomeranian dog). Those aboard lifeboat 7 were picked up by the RMS Carpathia in the early hours of April 15th, 1912. 

After The Sinking/Later Life/Death:
Aboard the rescue ship, Margaret, fluent in French, volunteered to care for 2 young French boys who spoke no English and had been unclaimed by an adult relative. The boys were Michel and Edmond Navatril, who's late father Michel Sr., had been trying to take them to America after kidnapping them from their mother. They stayed in Margaret's home, under the supervision of the Children's Aid Society, until the children's mother was located and brought to America to claim them. Margaret kept in regular contact with Gilbert after their rescue but chose to marry Charles Daniel Easton, a Rhode Island physician in 1913 and the couple lived in Providence and Newport, Rhode Island.

They were the parents of 2 daughters. Charles died on October 4th, 1934 and Margaret died in a Buenos Aires, Argentina while vacationing with her daughter and granddaughter on August 21st, 1956. She was buried at St. Mary's Churchyard, Portsmouth, Rhode Island.

Sources:
www.encyclopedia-titanica.org

Rest In Peace Margaret Hays.