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Helen Margaret Bishop. Mrs Dickinson H. Bishop (Helen Magaret Walton), 19, and her husband Dickinson H. Bishop from Dowagiac, MI, USA, boarded the Titanic at Cherbourg. They occupied cabin B-49. On the night of April 14th Helen had already retired and Dick was reading in their stateroom when the Titanic struck the iceberg.
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Dickinson and Helen Bishop were divorced in 1916, Helen died...
- TITANIC SURVIVOR DIES IN DANVILLE
Mrs. Helen Walton Bishop, one of the survivors of the...
- Mr Dickinson H. Bishop
Helen (Walton) Bishop was a survivor of the sinking of the Titanic in 1912. She married Dickinson H. Bishop in 1911, and both were returning from their European honeymoon on the maiden voyage of the Titanic.
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Helen Margaret Bishop (born Walton) was a daughter of a successful business man and a First Class passenger on Titanic.
She was conceived on Thursday 19th May 1892 in Sturgis, Michigan, United States. Her parents were Jerrold Franklyn and Anne Walton (neé Patton).
They decided to return to their home to Dowagiac, Michigan, by joining the Maiden Voyage of White Star Line's new RMS Titanic. By the time she boarded Titanic Helen was pregnant. During their trip, they also had acquired a dog named Freu Freu while traveling in Italy. She was bewildered by this dog, Her man 'Dick' not so much. Helen with Freu Freu and her husband Dickinson H. Bishop from Dowagiac, Michigan, USA, boarded the Titanic at Cherbourg. They occupied cabin B-49.
On the night of April 14 Helen had already retired to bed and Dick was reading in their stateroom when the Titanic struck the iceberg. Helen reported that she did not hear or feel any shock. Helen Bishop also stated that when they went on deck, someone said the newly married couples should be put into the lifeboat first and that there were three newlywed couples in their boat. However, this was not mentioned during her later testimony at the US Inquiry into the disaster. At the inquiry, Helen Bishop also recalled seeing John Jacob Astor IV urging them to put their lifebelts on and board a boat. An officer took Mrs. Bishop by the arm and told her to quietly get into the lifeboat; after that, her husband was pushed into the boat with her. Helen Bishop said there were 12 women, 13 men and three crew members in the lifeboat and many of the men in the boat were not married. The couple boarded lifeboat 7.
The couple was struck with ill luck in their life, and they had to endure a lot. One intense occurance after another disrupted their peace. There was once an earthquake they had to sit through. On Sunday 8th December 1912, Helen gave birth to their baby son, Randall Walton Bishop. Sadly he died just two days after he was born.
On 5 November 1914, Helen tragically suffered from a serious car accident in which she was badly injured, in a car driven by her husband's cousin Bartlett Dickinson, when they returned from a dance party. He lost control speeding with an iced-up windshield. The car hit a tree and Helen was thrown 25 feet from the car, fracturing her skull. Her injuries were so bad that, the next day, the 'New York Times' reported that she was dying. Dickinson only suffered minor injuries. In an attempt to save Helen's life, her doctors tried what was then a new technique: a silver plate was affixed to her skull to cover the badly injured area.
Allthough she recovered somewhat, it is said that the accident changed her mentally. In January 1916 Dickinson and Helen divorced. There were once rumors that Mr Bishop had dressed as a woman and that this gossip had affected Helen. Charging her husband with cruelty and drunkenness, Helen Bishop was granted a divorce and $100,000 in alimony. She died two months later, on March 16, after falling at a friend's home on a visit to Danville, Illinois. The big car accident certainly hadn't helped, she might have survived this fall without it.
Her death was front page news, along with the new marriage between Dickinson Bishop and Sydney Boyce.
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Jun 2, 2019 · Helen (Walton) Bishop was aboard the RMS Titanic. Helen, born in 1892, was the daughter of Jerold F. Walton and Anna Patton. [1] She married wealthy widower Dickinson H. Bishop in 1911.
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- May 19, 1892
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- March 15, 1916
Apr 24, 2024 · Name: Mrs Helen Margaret Bishop (née Walton) Titanic Survivor. Born: Thursday 19th May 1892 in Sturgis, Michigan, United States. Age: 19 years 10 months and 27 days (Female) Nationality: American. Marital Status: Married to Dickinson H. Bishop. Last Residence: in Dowagiac, Michigan, United States.
Dickinson H. Bishop (March 24, 1887 – February 16, 1961) was an American businessman who traveled on board the ill-fated maiden voyage of the RMS Titanic while on his honeymoon with bride Helen, née Walton. They both survived the sinking of the Titanic on 15 April 1912. Early life.
