Emily Ryerson  Emily Maria Borie Ryerson (August 10, 1863 – December 28, 1939, Philadelphia) was an American first-class passenger who survived the sinking of on April 15, 1912. Emily married Arthur Larned Ryerson on January 31, 1889. They had five children: Susan "Suzette" Parker Ryerson (August 3, 1890), Arthur Larned Ryerson, Jr. (1891-1912), Emily Borie Ryerson (October 8, 1893), Ellen Ashfordbye Ryerson (1895-1973), and John Borie "Jack" Ryerson (December 16, 1898 - January 21, 1986). Daughter Emily Borie Ryerson married George Hyde Clark of Hyde Hall.. They, who lived on a large estate near Cooperstown, New York, had seven children before divorcing. Emily, Arthur, and three of their children, Suzette, Emily, and John, boarded the as first-class passengers in Cherbourg, France, after learning of the death of their son, Arthur Jr., an undergraduate at Yale, who had been killed in an automobile accident in the United States. With them were their maid, Victorine Chaudanson, and John's governess, Grace Scott Bowen. On the afternoon of April 14, 1912, fellow passenger Marian Longstreth Thayer invited Emily for a walk. It was the first time she had been on deck in public. After nearly an hour they settled into deck chairs outside the aft staircase of 'A' deck to watch the sunset. White Star official, J. Bruce Ismay, joined them and told them about the ice warning from the . Emily was awake when the "Titanic" hit the iceberg on April 14, 1912, 11:40 pm. She woke Arthur, Suzette, Emily, John, Grace, and Victorine. "[The maid's] door was locked and I had some difficulty in waking her. By this time my husband was fully dressed, and we could hear the noise of feet tramping on the deck overhead. He was quite calm and cheerful and helped me put the lifebelts on the children and on my maid. I was paralyzed with fear of not all getting on deck together in time, as there were seven of us. I would not let my younger daughter, [Emily], dress, but she only put on a fur coat, as I did over her nightgown." Emily and her family went to 'A' deck and stood there for "fully half an hour".