Maria had lost a teenage son to drowning back in Finland.Īs they made they way towards the deck a seaman tried to bar their way but Anna and her party refused to obey. She returned to the cabin and saw Maria Panula dressing her sleepy and crying children in a hopeless and panicky state: 'We will never get away from here alive", "Do we all have to die by water?' No one hurried to get dressed or go up on deck. The brother of one of the women came to their cabin and told them that something was wrong and that they should wear warm clothing and put on their life jackets: 'Get up or soon you will be at the bottom of the ocean.'Īnna was not scared, but others were and she said some of them fainted. ![]() Anna thought that there was something wrong with the engines. Anna, who was woken by the collision, described it as like a shudder. The women were all in the room when the Titanic struck the iceberg. She shared a room with Maria Panula, her children and neighbour Sanni Riihivuori. Anna mailed a letter to her sister on 3 April 1912 from Hangö (also spelt Hanko) - a port and the Southernmost town in Finland - stating that she and about 100 other Finns were about to sail from there to make connections with the Titanic (Mrs Lundi received the letter on April 18th).Īnna boarded the Titanic in Southampton and travelled in third class. A brother, Matt Turja, lived in Conneaut, Ohio. Between this and another marriage Heikki had 21 children in total.Īnna was tempted to America by promise of a job with John Lundi the husband of her half-sister Maria in Ashtabula, OH. ![]() Miss Anna Sofia Turja, 18, was born on 20 June 1893 and grew up in Oulainen, Oulu, Finland, the daughter of Heikki Turja and Sanna Hakala. Disembarked Carpathia: New York City on Thursday 18th April 1912.Destination: Ashtabula Ohio United States. ![]()
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