Susanna Bricker

Other Events:

• Interesting: drowning, accident
• Name: Susanna Seybold
• Eby ID Number: 00016-1230
• Residence: 1861, Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lutheran
• Misfortune: 29 May 1914, St. Lawrence River, Quebec, Canada; killed in the wreck of the Empress of Ireland

Notes:

Susannah Bricker," was born October 19th, 1849, She is married to Edward Seybold, a brother to Mary Ann's husband. They reside in Ottawa. They have no family."

Eby, Ezra E. (1895). A biographical history of Waterloo township and other townships of the county: being a history of the early settlers and their descendants, mostly all of Pennsylvania Dutch origin: as also much other unpublished historical information chiefly of a local character. Berlin [Kitchener, Ont.]: [s.n.].
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On the foggy night of May 29, 1914, two ships collide in the St. Lawrence River. The Empress of Ireland, with 1,477 souls aboard, sinks in less than 15 minutes. An estimated 1,032 people passengers and crew perish. Susannah and her husband Edward Seybold were going on a tour of Europe for their 32 wedding anniversary on the ship. Susannah was drowned and Edward survived, he followed the casket to Bonaventure station in Montréal on May 31.

Susanna — Edward Seybold. Edward (son of Christian Seybold and Jane Watson) was born 7 Feb 1850, Montreal, Ile De Montreal, Quebec; died 1 Mar 1919, Ottawa, Carleton Co., Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]