What passed though Jeremiah's heart ?
LETTER FROM THE GRAVE
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When the Titanic struck an iceberg at 11.40pm on the night of 14th April 1912, many passengers aboard were asleep in their beds, enjoying the night with friends, or thinking about the new lives that awaited them in America.
In the panic that followed, no one saw the man who grabbed a pen, and began to write a message to the world.
Nineteen year old Irishman Jeremiah Burke, had purchased a ticket to America to visit his sisters in Boston - but fate had other plans for him.
At the precise moment the Titanic hit an iceberg, Jeremiah had been in bed.
His final moments remain relatively unknown, other than one heartbreaking letter.
The letter eventually made its way to Jeremiah’s family, a year after his death.
Jeremiah's mother had given him a parting gift of a bottle of Holy Water.
It would be this bottle that he placed his final words in.
He then threw it into the Atlantic.
The bottle got swept up in ocean currents, slowly travelling east towards Europe.
In the summer of 1913, a little more than a year after the tragedy, a postman was walking his dog on a shingle beach in Dunkettle, near Cork harbour.
The man stumbled on the bottle, weathered but still entirely intact.
So he handed it over to the Irish police.
Written in Jeremiah’s handwriting, the message was a final farewell to the world.
It simply read:
“From Titanic, Goodbye all,
Burke of Glanmire, Cork".
The Royal Irish Constabulary passed it on to Jeremiah’s family.
Tragically, Jeremiah’s mother never got to see her son's final message.
Not knowing what had happened to her son on that fateful night in April, she died broken hearted before Jeremiah's letter showed up on the beach.
Jeremiah was just one of the 1,500 people, who died in the Titanic disaster.
LETTER FROM THE GRAVE
.
When the Titanic struck an iceberg at 11.40pm on the night of 14th April 1912, many passengers aboard were asleep in their beds, enjoying the night with friends, or thinking about the new lives that awaited them in America.
In the panic that followed, no one saw the man who grabbed a pen, and began to write a message to the world.
Nineteen year old Irishman Jeremiah Burke, had purchased a ticket to America to visit his sisters in Boston - but fate had other plans for him.
At the precise moment the Titanic hit an iceberg, Jeremiah had been in bed.
His final moments remain relatively unknown, other than one heartbreaking letter.
The letter eventually made its way to Jeremiah’s family, a year after his death.
Jeremiah's mother had given him a parting gift of a bottle of Holy Water.
It would be this bottle that he placed his final words in.
He then threw it into the Atlantic.
The bottle got swept up in ocean currents, slowly travelling east towards Europe.
In the summer of 1913, a little more than a year after the tragedy, a postman was walking his dog on a shingle beach in Dunkettle, near Cork harbour.
The man stumbled on the bottle, weathered but still entirely intact.
So he handed it over to the Irish police.
Written in Jeremiah’s handwriting, the message was a final farewell to the world.
It simply read:
“From Titanic, Goodbye all,
Burke of Glanmire, Cork".
The Royal Irish Constabulary passed it on to Jeremiah’s family.
Tragically, Jeremiah’s mother never got to see her son's final message.
Not knowing what had happened to her son on that fateful night in April, she died broken hearted before Jeremiah's letter showed up on the beach.
Jeremiah was just one of the 1,500 people, who died in the Titanic disaster.
What passed though Jeremiah's heart ?
✍️ LETTER FROM THE GRAVE ✍️
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✍️ When the Titanic struck an iceberg at 11.40pm on the night of 14th April 1912, many passengers aboard were asleep in their beds, enjoying the night with friends, or thinking about the new lives that awaited them in America.
In the panic that followed, no one saw the man who grabbed a pen, and began to write a message to the world.
✍️ Nineteen year old Irishman Jeremiah Burke, had purchased a ticket to America to visit his sisters in Boston - but fate had other plans for him.
At the precise moment the Titanic hit an iceberg, Jeremiah had been in bed.
His final moments remain relatively unknown, other than one heartbreaking letter.
The letter eventually made its way to Jeremiah’s family, a year after his death.
✍️ Jeremiah's mother had given him a parting gift of a bottle of Holy Water.
It would be this bottle that he placed his final words in.
He then threw it into the Atlantic.
The bottle got swept up in ocean currents, slowly travelling east towards Europe.
✍️ In the summer of 1913, a little more than a year after the tragedy, a postman was walking his dog on a shingle beach in Dunkettle, near Cork harbour.
The man stumbled on the bottle, weathered but still entirely intact.
So he handed it over to the Irish police.
✍️ Written in Jeremiah’s handwriting, the message was a final farewell to the world.
It simply read:
“From Titanic, Goodbye all,
Burke of Glanmire, Cork".
The Royal Irish Constabulary passed it on to Jeremiah’s family.
✍️ Tragically, Jeremiah’s mother never got to see her son's final message.
Not knowing what had happened to her son on that fateful night in April, she died broken hearted before Jeremiah's letter showed up on the beach.
Jeremiah was just one of the 1,500 people, who died in the Titanic disaster.
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