![]() There is something both haunting and oddly uplifting about the stories of long-married couples who die at the same time. ![]() ![]() It was apparent that his idea was that they should die together, and not risk being parted on going into the water.” Hubbard and entered a room on the top deck, the door of which was open, and closed it behind him. Hubbard smiled and said, ‘There does not seem to be anything to do.’ The expression seemed to produce action on the part of your father, for then he did one of the most dramatic things I ever saw done. I called to him, ‘What are you going to do?’ and he just shook his head, while Mrs. Hubbard linked arms-the fashion in which they always walked the deck. “Neither appeared perturbed in the least,” wrote one survivor, Ernest Cowper, in a letter to Hubbard’s son. Like the Strauses before them, the Hubbards chose to go down with the ship. Bizarrely, three years later-exactly a hundred years ago Thursday-Hubbard and his wife Alice were among the 1,196 people who died when the British passenger ship Lusitania was struck by the torpedo of a German submarine. ![]()
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