The Kansas City Family who didn’t Die on the Titanic
The Catholic Key has one of those interesting historical stories it frequently reports. This one is of the legend of a Kansas City family who perished on that most famous of Irish-built ships, the Titanic, as told to one William Leahy, whose Irish-born grandparents immigrated to the United States by way of another White Star Line ship. Except the Kansas City family aren’t recorded on the passenger manifest.
In Mt. St. Mary’s Cemetery at 22nd and Cleveland, a limestone obelisk was erected on the grave of John Norton Perry when he died in 1891. Today it is well-tended and serviced with flowers as Perry’s grave now sits a few feet away, moved.
According to the legend the remaining Perrys set sail on the maiden voyage of the White Star Line RMS Titanic in 1912, and were lost at sea when the ocean liner struck an iceberg in the North Atlantic off the coast of Newfoundland. Allegedly they eventually were recovered and buried on Newfoundland’s Prince Edward Island.
Great stuff, by Marty Denzer. Read the whole article.
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