Several other Spokanites were lost on the Titanic along with the Rice family

John Henry Chapman, an Englishman who lived on Monroe Street, worked at the Fairmount Cemetery. When Margaret Rice moved her husband William’s body, Chapman prepared the new gravesite. He traveled back to England to marry his sweetheart, Lizzie Lawry. The new groom booked second-class passage on the Titanic—an extravagant honeymoon for the new couple.

Charles Hays, who also worked for Grand Trunk Railway attended a railway board meeting in England with his wife, Clara, their daughter Margaret and their daughter and son-in-law, Orian and Thornton Davidson. They booked firstclass passage on the Titanic to begin their return to Spokane. Hays and his family were guest of J. Bruce Ismay, White Star Line’s managing director.

John Chapman and his bride Lizzie died in the North Atlantic, as did Charles

Hays. Lizzie’s body was never recovered, but her groom’s body was found. He carried her handbag, their marriage certificate and all of the couple’s valuables, including a gold pocket watch.

The watch stopped when Chapman hit the icy Atlantic at 1:45 am. That watch is featured on the Spokane memorial. Chapman was buried in Halifax, not far from Margaret Rice.

Charles Hays’s body and the body of his son-in-law Thornton were never found, but his wife and two daughters were among the lucky 706 Titanic survivors. A memorial to Thornton Davidson was erected in the Mount royals Cemetery in Montreal, Canada, in lieu of a grave.

Johan Svensson Lindahl emigrated to the US in 1887 from Sweden. He married a Swedish woman named Christina and moved to Spokane where he appeared on the census as a tailor and a bartender in 1900 and 1910. They lived at 421 E. Carlisle Avenue and had one daughter named Mabel Elvira.

The family returned to Sweden for a period of three years, offering their Carlisle home up for rent. But Johan missed Spokane, so he booked passage on the Titanic. His family was to follow—at a later date. He did not survive the journey.

A second passenger on the Titanic named Agda Thorilda Viktoria Lindahl was on her way to see a man named Alfred Johnson who listed his address as 421 E. Carlisle Avenue in Spokane—the Johan Lindahl home. Were Agda and Johan related? That remains a mystery. But both went down with the Titanic and their bodies were never recovered

Most of these Spokane residents did not know one another, but their lives will forever be entwined.

By ARI NORDHAGEN

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