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\n\tBorn: December 19, 1886, Stockholm, Sweden
\n\n\tDied: April 15, 1912, Atlantic Ocean
\n\n\tParents: Johanna \"Hanna\" and Carl Peter Lindahl
\n\n\tSiblings: Carl Gustaf, b. 14 July 1885, Hugo Vilgot Fabian, b. 20 July 1888, Vilma Klotilda Isabella, b. 4 June 1890, Vara Lavina Matilda, b. 26 July 1895, and Alf Helge Tycho Roland, b. 31 March 1903.
\n\n\tAgda Thorilda Viktoria Lindahl died in the sinking of the Titanic. She was returning Saranac Lake, where her family lived. Her mother Hanna worked as a maid for George V. W. Duryea at 20 Woodruff Street. Adga became a waitress at a sanatorium when she was old enough. One of her siblings had died from TB and two others struggled with the disease. The family had come to the United States in waves after her father's death revealed his company was bankrupt.
\n\n\tThe family saved their money and in January of 1912, at 25, Agda traveled to Stockholm to visit her uncle, August Lindahl, and to bring back her brother, Helge. She stayed there for three months. Helge refused to travel to the USA and Agda had to return alone. Agda boarded the Titanic at Southampton on Wednesday, April 10th as a third class passenger, ticket number 347071. She drowned in the sinking of the ship and her body was never recovered.
\n\n\tFrom the Red Cross Files, per Encyclopedia Titanica. Copied January 10, 2021.
\n\n\t\"265. (Swedish) A girl, 19 years old [sic] and the principal help of her widowed mother, was drowned, while returning from a visit to her young brother in Sweden. The mother is a laundress, earning $8 a week.
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\n\tSince coming to this country five years ago, the eldest son died of tuberculosis. Of the three other children, the elder daughter has tuberculosis, but works as a waitress in a sanatorium, earning $20 a month; the younger, who is 16 years old, has a decided tendency toward the disease.
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\n\tThe family live in a famous resort for tubercular patients. The son is with his grandparents in Sweden, to whom the mother pays board. The daughter who was drowned was the only strong one of the children, earning regularly $25 a month. The mother is getting old and will not be able long to continue the laundry work, which is her only means of support. The income of the daughter now working as a waitress is irregular and may stop at any time, as her health is precarious. The other daughter is likely to gain robust health, if cared for properly during the next few years. Of the appropriation made by this Committee $100 was used by the mother for immediate needs. The remainder has been placed in trust with a Society for the Prevention of Tuberculosis, which will keep close watch of the welfare of the family and pay a pension as it is needed. From other American relief funds the family has received $600. ($2,600).\"
\n\tFrom a Facebook post by Philip \"Bunk\" Griffin, 2020
\n\n\tAgda Thorilda Viktoria Lindahl was born in Sweden in 1887 and around 1905, when she was seven, had emigrated to the USA with her mother, Hanna, and five siblings: Gustaf, Helge, Hugo, Vera and Vilma. The family had owned a tailor shop at Kommend\u00f6rsgatan 16, Stockholm, Sweden and in 1904 her father died leaving them broke. Hanna decided to emigrate to America with her children, except 2 year old Helge, who was left with an aunt in Sm\u00e5land. While in the USA both Hugo and Gustaf got sick and died at a fairly young age.
\n\n\tAgda's mother, Hanna, got a job as a maid for George V. W. Duryea at 20 Marshall Street [sic] in Saranac Lake and Adga, when she was old enough, became a waitress. They saved their money and in January of 1912, at 25, Agda traveled to Stockholm to visit her uncle, August Lindahl, and to bring back her brother, Helge. She stayed there for three months. Helge refused to travel to the USA and Agda had to return alone. Agda boarded the Titanic at Southampton on Wednesday, April 10th as a third class passenger, ticket number 347071.
\n\n\tAs the Titanic began to sink Agda boarded the second lifeboat to leave but spotted Augusta Lindblom, who was traveling back to Saranac Lake with her and gave Augusta her seat. She then went to the other side of the ship and found room on the last lifeboat to leave. As the Titanic went under it created a whirlpool which pulled Agda's lifeboat under and spilled the passengers into the sea. Agda stayed afloat long enough to call to an acquaintance she had met aboard ship, Carl Johnson, who was also in the water. She told him to contact her mother in Saranac Lake if he survived. Agda then sank and a few minutes later Carl was rescued. Agda's body was never found and the Mansion House Fund eventually awarded Hanna and Helge what in todays dollar would amount to $3,840. A remaining mystery is the identity and fate of Miss Augusta Lindblom, 45, the lady who was also traveling from Stockholm to Saranac Lake and who Agda gave up her seat on the lifeboat for. Could she have been Adga's Aunt?
\n\n\tSources:
\n\n\t-Titanic passenger list, Congressional Record--Senate, May 28, 1912. Accessed on Congress.gov, 1/10/2022.
\n\n\t-Agda Thorilda Viktoria Lindahl - Titanic Victim. Accessed on EncyclopediaTitanica.org, 1/20/2022.
\n\n\t-Post by Philip \"Bunk\" Griffin, History and Legends of the Adirondacks Facebook Group.
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