She has been remembered as the "White Widow of the Titanic." But she was much more than that...
Finding love as a debutante bride, her romantic bliss was derailed in April 1912 by the sinking of the Titanic, an event that left Eloise widowed and pr.
She grew up among American presidents and other figures of social importance during a time of rapid, unprecedented change.
Eloise Hughes Smith was born into an upper-class West Virginia political family in the era Mark Twain christened the Gilded Age.
She has been remembered as the "White Widow of the Titanic." But she was much more than that..