Marie Grice Young (January 5, 1876 – July 27, 1959) was an American woman who survived the sinking of RMS ''Titanic''.

Early life

Marie Grice Young was born on January 5, 1876, the daughter of Samuel Grice Young and Margaret Brown (Wilson) Young. She belonged to a political upper-class family in Washington, and was the niece-in-law of Alexander Robey Shepherd, who had married her aunt, Mary Grice Young. The Young Family was originally from Virginia.

Music and the Roosevelt family

In 1897 she studied music under John Porter Lawrence. In 1904 she toured with a musical reading, "Enoch Arden", Young at the piano and Helen Weil reading the poem. The Young family was very involved in music. Young's brother, Wilson Young, was himself involved as his wife was a known soprano in New York, and his daughter Hildreth Young also eventually became a singer. Young herself also sang as soprano occasionally at their local St. Matthew's Catholic Church. In the middle of the decade of the 1900s, Young was a piano teacher who numbered among her pupils Ethel Roosevelt, Archibald Roosevelt, and Quentin Roosevelt, the children of President Theodore Roosevelt. Her extensive involvement with the Roosevelt family allowed her in 1907 to provide information regarding management of their household. She remained in the Washington, D.C. area until around 1911.

''Titanic''

For a long time she shared her house with

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; already in 1911 there are reports of the two of them travelling together by car in France. Young was a close personal friend of Thomas Nelson Page and his wife, Florence Lathrop Field. Marie Grice Young boarded the ''Titanic'' at Cherbourg with White, traveling in first class. They also brought along some exotic French-bred chickens, intending to keep them at their New York country home. She was the last woman passenger from first class to leave the ''Titanic''. She was covered by '' The Washington Post'' as one of the several women on the lifeboats that took charge to ensure more lives were saved by taking more passengers from the waters into the lifeboats. Historian Jonathan Ned Katz suggested that she was intimately related to her travel partner

, making her an LGBT passenger aboard ''Titanic''.

Death

When White died in 1942, she was living at the

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in Manhattan with Young. White's will bequeathed to Young "personal effects and life estate in a trust to yield $250 per month for life" ($ in dollars). Young died on July 27, 1959.

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