Emma Sägesser

Emma Schabert was a First Class passenger aboard *Titanic*.

She was born named Emma Mock, on 23 May 1976. Her parents were Richard Mock, a restaurateur, and Eva Maria Lampert, a housewife. They were former immigrants from Germany. Her brother was Philip Edmund Mock. She always named him Boy.

Emma married Rufus Blake of Derby, Conneticut, but was widowed when he later shot himself in his room, after the two had been playing cards. It was 1901, and she had inherited a large fortune from his passing.

In 1894 Emma married again, this time to Paul Schabert, a wealthy nobleman and landowner from Hamburg, and she had two children with him, Beatrice and Kyrill Schabert. Paul and Emma actually knew eachother from school and he had crush on he when she was only 16. When she migrated, they must have lost contact. She lost her father in 1905.

The coupled seemed to have grown apart and the marriage didn't look a succes. In 1912 they must have grown apart and Paul left her in Germany while he travelled alone to Reno, in Nevada where he created his own home. Emma wanted to either save her marriage or perhaps finalize the divorce, and decided to follow him. Her brother accompanied her. She and Philip boarded *Titanic* from the *Nomadic* in Cherbourg. She stayed in cabin C-28. The siblings were impressed by the ship, noting that it didn't roll because of her sheer size.

## Sinking

On April 14th, at 11:40 P.M. Titanic had grazed an iceberg. They had witnessed the ice and also saw how bright and star-lit the sky was. Around 12:05 A.M., a tall person had told them to grab a lifebelt. They did so and they went on deck. The steam of the funnels was deafening.

She remembers how bravely the women on the ship acted when they were leaded to the boats without the men.

She saw many boats leave, but didn't want to board, she didn't feel like being dropped so far below. She was prepared to stay with her brother, even after Bruce Ismay tried to get her into a boat,  but she refused and he regarded it as a mistake to not have boarded the boat.

Someone called out that there was a boat being readied at the hight of the A-Deck, and she went down there with her brother. There were plenty of men in that boat and brother-dear tried to move her to get on. She started to become afraid,  and she could feel the tension hanging in the air.  She clenched Philip's arm.  The crowd had noticed there was a woman amidst them and they made way for them.

She was impressed by the distress rockets that were fired,  it was loud when they exploded.  She found it beautiful.  One sailor grabbed her by the arm to guide her into lifeboat 11. But she still didn't want to go.  Eventually both she and Philip could get in.

## Later life

After surviving the tragedy, she got divorced in 1913 after what seemed a reacquaintence with her husband, but it still didn't workt out eventually.

She found a new love in Baron Curt von Faber, who originated from Germany. They lived together in Italy for a couple of years and were married in 1929. In 1939 she took him with her to live in the United States again.  Their home became New Haven in Conneticut.  The Baron became a Professor at Yale University.

She rarely spoke of her Titanic story throughout her life.

Emma Von Faber Du Faur passed away in in New Haven on 18 April 1961. Cerebral Thrombosis was the cause of her death.