History of Oceania

List of passengers on board RMS Titanic from West Virginia?

Here is a list of passengers from West Virginia who were on board the RMS Titanic:

1. George Achilles Chaffee, traveling with his wife Lillian (Thorogood), his 2-year-old daughter Marjorie Lillian, and his mother Bertha (Rice) Chaffee. The entire family perished when the ship went down. They resided in Fairmont Marion County, and were en route to England prior to a longer sailing to Egypt at which point George hoped to pursue an archeological field project.

2. Mary Agatha Glynn of Wheeling. She, a second or third-class, passenger arrived safely in New York with a companion Mary McCormick at a later uncertain date before May 5, 1912.

According to Wikipedia a list of 2,224 passengers are named, but not all those were passengers. These names include 167 crew (86 survived out of a total of 885 (9.7% or roughly 1 in 10 who lived and 800 (approx. 90%) who perished and of the estimated remaining 2,122 passengers (453 survived for an approx. ratio of 1-in-5 survived (approx. 21.31% for passengers), with 1,669 (approx. 76-79%) killed.

Of those identified 322 or slightly more than 10 percent were American; most being from Philadelphia, New York, Boston and West Virginia (1 each for 6 West Virginians).