Audrey Lawson-Johnston, born Audrey Warren Pearl, was the last living survivor of the sinking of the RMS Lusitania on May 7, 1915.
She was born in New York City and was the fourth of six children born to Major Frederic Warren Pearl and Amy Lea Duncan. Lawson-Johnston was three months old when she boarded the Lusitania in New York with her parents, three siblings and two nurses. Her eighteen year old English nursemaid Alice M. Lines saved her life and that of her five year old brother Stuart by jumping off the boat deck and being pulled into a lifeboat. Her parents survived but her sisters Amy and Susan were lost.
She was born in New York City and was the fourth of six children born to Major Frederic Warren Pearl and Amy Lea Duncan. Lawson-Johnston was three months old when she boarded the Lusitania in New York with her parents, three siblings and two nurses. Her eighteen year old English nursemaid Alice M. Lines saved her life and that of her five year old brother Stuart by jumping off the boat deck and being pulled into a lifeboat. Her parents survived but her sisters Amy and Susan were lost.
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