Olive Earnshaw

September 9th, 1888 - April 21st, 1958

She is a Virgo.

Olive Potter was born to Thomas Potter Jr. and Lily Alexenia Wilson. The family resided in Mt Airy, Pennsylvania. On December of 1911, Lily, now widowed, decided to take a European vacation with her daughter. The marriage between Olive and her husband Boulton Earnshaw was crumbling, and Olive filed for divorce. In an effort to take her daughter's mind off the divorce proceedings, Lily took her to Europe. Traveling with them was Margaret Hays of New York City. Olive and Margaret were school friends from Briarcliff School in New York.    

Aboard Titanic/April 14th-15th, 1912:
Returning to America from their travels they boarded the RMS Titanic at Cherbourg on the evening of April 10th, 1912. Olive and Margaret shared cabin C-54.

Olive, Lily, Margaret, Margaret's dog, and their self appointed "escort" Gilbert Milligan Tucker boarded lifeboat 7 which was lowered away at 12:54 AM.

After The Sinking/Later Life/Death:
When the Carpathia arrived in New York Boulton travelled to Pier 54 to meet his soon-to-be ex-wife and the Potter party returned to Philadelphia later that night. Olive eventually obtained her divorced from Boulton and later, like her mother, volunteered her services to the American Red Cross, she would continue her volunteer work to the Red Cross for the rest of her life.

In 1920, she remarried Allen P. Crolius, and the couple had two sons, Thomas and Allen. Allen died in 1936. She never gave up traveling, in spite of her experience on the Titanic. She travelled to Spain with Allen and their sons in the mid and late 1920's and also sailed to Bermuda on a number of occasions. Olive died of cancer on April 21st, 1958 at the age of 69. She was buried in the same grave as her mother at Laurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Sources:
www.encyclopedia-titanica.org

Rest In Peace Olive Earnshaw.

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