Suppressed World History: The Amazing Story of the One Black Family Members That Survived The Titanic The Untold and Suppressed History Of The Titanic When all of the stories are being told about the tragedy of the Titanic back in 1912, no one ever mentions the black man on the boat. His name was Joseph Philippe Lemercier Laroche, and he was a Haitian engineer, educated in Paris. Laroche was the only black male passenger on the boat, and was traveling with his pregnant wife (Louise Laroche) and two daughters at the time. Being the devoted father and husband that he was, Laroche got his daughters and wife onto a lifeboat. They survived but he did not. Laroche went to study Engineering in France at the age of 15. But being black meant that he could not find work, so he planned to return to Haiti with his family. His uncle, Cincinnatus Leconte was the President of Haiti and helped him to obtain work as a math teacher. Laroche’s mother initially purchased a ticket for the family to travel aboard the La France Liner. But after finding out that the ship had a policy against children dining with their parents, he canceled the tickets. The tickets were then traded in for a ride on the Titanic. The Laroche Family boarded the Titanic in Cherboug, France on April 10, 1912 a second-class passengers. When the ship hit the iceberg that sank it Joseph and his wife gathered their girls and went on deck. They were believed to have been on Lifeboat 8, which also held the Countess of Rothers. The family was picked up by the rescue ship RMS Carpathia, where the mother had problems finding diapers for her children. So, she was able to take napkins after each meal and use those instead. When the family arrived in New Your City without the girl’s father there was no one to meet them. So, instead of going on to Haiti, the pregnant mother decided to return to France. After the Titanic tragedy, Laroche’s wife went back to Paris with their daughters and gave birth to a son, Joseph Lemercier Laroche. Miss Louise Laroche died on January 28, 1998 in France unknown to the world, as did her husband on that faithful night on the North Atlantic Ocean in 1912. This is one of the articles on African American History which I plan to place in the 2015 Jones Family Reunion Book. I always seek the unsual and most unknown subjects of this nature, titled The Stories of a People Suppressed and Untold. My 5 part plan since my involvement in the Jones Family Reunion Association starting in 2007 has always been my familys genealogy, African American History, the preservation of family photos, restoring respect and the importance of the family elders to the younger generations of the Jones Family and turning kinships from all over the country into friendships that will last a life time.
Posted on: Tue, 24 Jun 2014 05:31:52 +0000
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