Hedvig Salomonsdotter Turkula

Birth, in Jalasjärvi 5.6.1848, bapt. 7.6.1848, parents Inh. Salom. Jonaes. Kivikko & Anna Brita Sam:dr ( 25-30 years), child: Hedvig

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Titanic Passenger Summary

Name: Mrs Hedwig Turkula (née Erkkilä-Holma)
Titanic Survivor
Born: Saturday 5th June 1847 in Jalasjärvi, Vaasa, Finland
Age: 64 years 10 months and 9 days (Female)
Nationality: Finnish
Marital Status: Widowed
Last Residence: in Jalasjärvi, Vaasa, Finland
3rd Class Passengers
Embarked: Southampton on Wednesday 10th April 1912
Ticket No. 4134, £9 11s 9d
Destination: Hibbing, Minnesota, United States
Rescued
Disembarked Carpathia: New York City on Thursday 18th April 1912
Died: Monday 3rd April 1922 aged 74 years
Cause of Death: Influenza
Buried: Little Swan Cemetery, Minnesota, United States

For more information please contact Marko Kuparinen, Kumpu-lanportti 3 A 4, SF 00520 Helsinki, Finland, or the Finnish Newspaper Co., 4422 Eighth Ave., Brooklyn, New York.

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Syntymä, Jalasjärvi 5.6.1848, kaste 7.6.1848, vanhemmat Inh. Salom. Jonaes. Kivikko & Anna Brita Sam:dr (ikä 25-30 vuotta), tytär: Hedvig

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Mrs Hedwig Turkula (née Holma)

• Born: Tuesday 6th June 1848
• Age: 63 years
• Last Residence: in Jalasjärvi Finland
• 3rd Class passenger
• First Embarked: Southampton on Wednesday 10th April 1912
• Ticket No. 4134 , £9 11s 9d
• Destination: Hibbing Minnesota United States
• Rescued (boat 15)
• Disembarked Carpathia: New York City on Thursday 18th April 1912
• Died: Monday 3rd April 1922
• Cause of Death: Influenza
• Buried: Little Swan Minnesota United States

Mrs Hedvig Turkula, 63, ws born on 6th June 1848 in Jalasjärvi, Finland. She boarded the Titanic at Southampton. She was travelling to Hibbing Minnesota. Most of her family (she had four sons, two daughters and some thirty grandchildren on different farms in Minnesota) had preceded her to America, and, as a widow, she had decided it was time to go to them to live out her life. Her husband, Isaac Kujala Turkula, had died some ten years before.

She started her journey from Vaasa Laani, Finland, eventually arriving at Southampton where she boarded the Titanic as a third class passenger .

She was asleep when the ship struck the iceberg and was helped to the deck and into a lifeboat (15) by another Finn, Eino Lindqvist. Also helping her into the lifeboat was "a minor officer" who appeared to be intoxicated.

On arrival to New York she was sent to St. Vincent Hospital. Later, she told the Finnish-American Newspaper in New York how she couldn't understand that "She, an old woman, was saved, while so many young women had gone down with the ship." She added that she had no bad effects from her experience other than a slight cold. Mrs Turkula would live only 10 more years after Titanic. She died on 3rd April 1922, in Little Swan, Minnesota.

References and Sources Claes-Göran Wetterholm (1988, 1996, 1999) Titanic. Prisma, Stockholm. ISBN 91 518 3644 0

Credits Phillip Gowan, USA Juho Peltonen, Finland Leif Snellman, Finland Claes-Göran Wetterholm, Sweden Kalman Tanito

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Born: s. 5.6.1848 Jalasjärvi. kaste 7.6.1848 vt: Inh. Salom. Jonaes. Kivikko & Anna Brita Sam:dr ikä 25-30, lapsi Hedvig. Kummit: Elias Eliass. Holma med hu Hedvig Jacobsdr, drg Isak Aronss. Wuohiluoma, samt Maria Gustava Aittomäki. http://www.digiarkisto.org/sshy/kirjat/Kirkonkirjat/jalasjarvi/synt...

From Anja

Hedvigs birth at Jalasjärvi by Jalasjärvi parish register:
SSHY: http://www.sukuhistoria.fi/sshy/kirjat/Kirkonkirjat/jalasjarvi/synt...

Hedwig was born on 5.6.1848 in Jalasjärvi. Her parents were Salomon Jonasson Erkkilä and his wife Anna Brita Samuelsdoughter Holma.

Marriage of Hedwig and Isak Kujala in Jalasjärvi parish register:
SSHY:http://www.sukuhistoria.fi/sshy/kirjat/Kirkonkirjat/jalasjarvi/vihi...

"14.11.1871 Isak Johaness. drg. & ungkarl samt Hedwig Salomonsdr., tjänstepiga, begge tjänsten a Jokipii hemman, hemma, af G.Jernberg."
"14.11.1871 were married Isak Johannes' son, Farm worker and single with Hedwig Salomon's daughter, single maid, both on duty at Jokipii. The wedding was at home by priest G.Jernberg."

Their residence in Jalasjärvi was Turkula hut untill the death of Isaac 1902 by Jalasjärvi parish register:
SSHY:http://www.sukuhistoria.fi/sshy/kirjat/Kirkonkirjat/jalasjarvi/ripp...

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14.05.1912 Karjalan Sanomat julkaisi New Yorkin Uutisten haastattelun Titanicista pelastuneista suomalaisista.
Nykykirjaimilla Hedvig Turkulan kertomus Aila Juolan mukaan:
Haastattelu oli tapahtunut New Yourkilaisessa sairaalassa:

Reipas vanhus
Varsin hauskalta tuntui nähdä vanhusta Hedvig Turkulaa, joka tyynenä ja tyytyväisenä istui kotitekoisessa puvussaan. Hän on 65-vuotias, ja oli matkalla Hibbingiin Minn., jossa hänen 4 poikaansa ja 2 tytärtään omistavat farmeja. Kysyttäessä muista sukulaisistaan kertoi hän lapsenlapsia olevan kolmattakymmentä. Täräytyksen kuultuaan oli hän heti noussut vuoteelta ja kun röijy ja hame oli päällä makuullakin, otti hän vaan saalin hartioilleen ja lähti kannelle katsomaan, mikä tässä tärähteli. Siellä hänet heti pantiin pelastusveneeseen. Rahansa, pilettinsä ja osotteensa pelastuivat luonnollisesti pikku pussissa, jota hän tarkasti piilotettuna kuletti mukanaan. Vaatemytty kuitenkin jäi laivaan.

Iltasanomat 23.4.2023 Titanicin uppoamisesta on 111 vuotta https://www.is.fi/ulkomaat/art-2000009521250.html /rl

Född i Jalasjärvi 5.6.1848, döpt 7.6.1848, föräldrarna: Inh. Salom. Jonaes. Kivikko & Anna Brita Sam:dr (ålder 25-30 år), dotter: Hedvig

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Mrs Hedwig Turkula (née Holma)

• Born: Tuesday 6th June 1848
• Age: 63 years
• Last Residence: in Jalasjärvi Finland
• 3rd Class passenger
• First Embarked: Southampton on Wednesday 10th April 1912
• Ticket No. 4134 , £9 11s 9d
• Destination: Hibbing Minnesota United States
• Rescued (boat 15)
• Disembarked Carpathia: New York City on Thursday 18th April 1912
• Died: Monday 3rd April 1922
• Cause of Death: Influenza
• Buried: Little Swan Minnesota United States
• Reference: https://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/titanic-lifeboat-15/ Life Boat No. 15
• Reference: https://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/titanic-deckplans/ R.M.S. Titanic deck plans

Mrs Hedvig Turkula, 63, ws born on 6th June 1848 in Jalasjärvi, Finland. She boarded the Titanic at Southampton. She was travelling to Hibbing Minnesota. Most of her family (she had four sons, two daughters and some thirty grandchildren on different farms in Minnesota) had preceded her to America, and, as a widow, she had decided it was time to go to them to live out her life. Her husband, Isaac Kujala Turkula, had died some ten years before.

She started her journey from Vaasa Laani, Finland, eventually arriving at Southampton where she boarded the Titanic as a third class passenger .

She was asleep when the ship struck the iceberg and was helped to the deck and into a lifeboat (15) by another Finn, Eino Lindqvist. Also helping her into the lifeboat was "a minor officer" who appeared to be intoxicated.

On arrival to New York she was sent to St. Vincent Hospital. Later, she told the Finnish-American Newspaper in New York how she couldn't understand that "She, an old woman, was saved, while so many young women had gone down with the ship." She added that she had no bad effects from her experience other than a slight cold. Mrs Turkula would live only 10 more years after Titanic. She died on 3rd April 1922, in Little Swan, Minnesota.

References and Sources Claes-Göran Wetterholm (1988, 1996, 1999) Titanic. Prisma, Stockholm. ISBN 91 518 3644 0

Credits Phillip Gowan, USA Juho Peltonen, Finland Leif Snellman, Finland Claes-Göran Wetterholm, Sweden Kalman Tanito

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From Anja

Hedvigs birth at Jalasjärvi by Jalasjärvi parish register:
SSHY: http://www.sukuhistoria.fi/sshy/kirjat/Kirkonkirjat/jalasjarvi/synt...

Hedwig was born on 5.6.1848 in Jalasjärvi. Her parents were Salomon Jonasson Erkkilä and his wife Anna Brita Samuelsdoughter Holma.

Marriage of Hedwig and Isak Kujala in Jalasjärvi parish register:
SSHY:http://www.sukuhistoria.fi/sshy/kirjat/Kirkonkirjat/jalasjarvi/vihi...

"14.11.1871 Isak Johaness. drg. & ungkarl samt Hedwig Salomonsdr., tjänstepiga, begge tjänsten a Jokipii hemman, hemma, af G.Jernberg."
"14.11.1871 were married Isak Johannes' son, Farm worker and single with Hedwig Salomon's daughter, single maid, both on duty at Jokipii. The wedding was at home by priest G.Jernberg."

Their residence in Jalasjärvi was Turkula hut untill the death of Isaac 1902 by Jalasjärvi parish register:
SSHY:http://www.sukuhistoria.fi/sshy/kirjat/Kirkonkirjat/jalasjarvi/ripp...

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https://digi.kansalliskirjasto.fi/sanomalehti/binding/1246327?page=...

14.05.1912 Karjalan Sanomat julkaisi New Yorkin Uutisten haastattelun Titanicista pelastuneista suomalaisista.
Nykykirjaimilla Hedvig Turkulan kertomus Aila Juolan mukaan:
Haastattelu oli tapahtunut New Yourkilaisessa sairaalassa:

Reipas vanhus
Varsin hauskalta tuntui nähdä vanhusta Hedvig Turkulaa, joka tyynenä ja tyytyväisenä istui kotitekoisessa puvussaan. Hän on 65-vuotias, ja oli matkalla Hibbingiin Minn., jossa hänen 4 poikaansa ja 2 tytärtään omistavat farmeja. Kysyttäessä muista sukulaisistaan kertoi hän lapsenlapsia olevan kolmattakymmentä. Täräytyksen kuultuaan oli hän heti noussut vuoteelta ja kun röijy ja hame oli päällä makuullakin, otti hän vaan saalin hartioilleen ja lähti kannelle katsomaan, mikä tässä tärähteli. Siellä hänet heti pantiin pelastusveneeseen. Rahansa, pilettinsä ja osotteensa pelastuivat luonnollisesti pikku pussissa, jota hän tarkasti piilotettuna kuletti mukanaan. Vaatemytty kuitenkin jäi laivaan.

• Reference: Full text- https://archive.org/details/truthabouttitani00grac/page/n6 "The Truth About the Titanic" by Colonel Archibald Gracie, IV 1913 pp. 296-299

BOAT NO. 15.*

Br. Rpt., p. 38, places this next to last lowered on starboard side at 1.35. No disorder in loading or lowering this boat.

Passengers: All third-class women and children (53) and Men: Mr. Haven (first-class) and three others (third-class) only. Total: 4.

Crew: Firemen: Diamond (in charge), Cavell, Taylor; Stewards: Rule, Hart. Total: 13.

Grand Total (Br. Rpt., p. 38) : 70.

. INCIDENTS

G. Cavell, trimmer (Br. Inq.) :

The officer ordered five of us In the boat. We took on all the women and children and the boat was then lowered. We lowered to the first-class (I. e. A) deck and took on a few more women and children, about five, and then lowered to the water. From the lower deck we took In about sixty. There were men about but we did not take them In. They were not kept back. They were third-class passengers, I think — sixty women, Irish. Fireman Diamond took charge. No other seaman In this boat. There were none left on the third-class decks after I had taken the women.

S. J. Rule, bathroom steward (Br. Inq.) : Mr. Murdoch called to the men to get Into the boat. About six got In. "That will do," he said, "lower away to Deck A." At this time the vessel had a slight list to port. We sent scouts around both to the starboard and port sides. They came back and said there were no more women and children. We filled up on A Deck — sixty-eight all told — the last boat to leave the starboard side. There were some left behind. There was a bit of a rush after Mr. Murdoch said we could fill the boat up with men standing by. We very nearly came on top of No. 13 when we lowered away. A man, Jack Stewart, a steward, took charge. Nearly everybody rowed. No lamp. One deckhand in the boat, and men, women and children. Just before it was launched, no more could be found, and about half a dozen men got in. There were sixty- eight in the boat altogether. Seven members of the crew.

J. E. Hart, third-class steward (Br. Inq., 75) : Witness defines the duties and what was done by the stewards, particularly those connected with the steerage.

Pass the women and children up to the Boat Deck," was the order soon after the collision. About three-quarters of an hour after the collision he took women and children from the C Deck to the first-class main companion. There were no barriers at that time. They were all opened. He took about thirty to boat No. 8 as it was being lowered. He left them and went back for more,' meeting third-class passengers on the way to the boats. He brought back about twenty-five more steerage women and children, having some little trouble owing to the men passengers wanting to get to the Boat Deck. These were all third-class people whom we took to the only boat left on the starboard side, viz., No. 15. There were a large number already in the boat, which was then lowered to A Deck, and five women, three children and a man with a baby in his arms taken in, making about seventy people in all, including thirteen or fourteen of the crew and fireman Diamond in charge. Mr. Murdoch ordered witness into the boat. Four men passengers and fourteen crew was the complement of men; the rest were women and children.

When boat No. 15 left the boat deck there were other women and children there — some first- class women passengers and their husbands. Absolute quietness existed. There were repeated cries for women and children. If there had been any more women there would have been found places for them in the boat. He heard some of the women on the A Deck say they would not leave their husbands.

There is no truth in the statement that any of the seamen tried to keep back third-class passengers from the Boat Deck. Witness saw masthead light of a ship from the Boat Deck. He did his very best, and so did all the other stewards, to help get the steerage passengers on the Boat Deck as soon as possible.

• Reference: In the Thunder Bay, Ontario newspaper The Chronicle-Journal on

Monday, January 30, 1995 the following list of passengers who were on the Titanic was printed in the column People, by Howard Reid. The following is a quote of his article in its entirety

Documentary focuses on Finnish aboard Titanic

Received a very interesting letter from Shirley Panula of Government Road. Friends in Chicago, Ill., noticed a newspaper article about Marko Kuparinen of Helsinki making a documentary for TV about Finnish passengers on the Titanic. The article then went on to list Finnish passengers who were on board the Titanic. Seeing Thunder Bay is home for the largest number of Finnish-speaking persons outside Helsinki, the names listed may be of special interest.

II Class:

• Collander, Erik
• Hiltunen, Maria
• Hamalainen, Anna
• Hamalainen, Wiljo
• Lahtinen, Anna
• Lahtinen, William
• Silven, Lyyli
• Sinkkonen, Anna III Class:
• Abrahamsson, August
• Alhomaki, Rudolf Ilmari
• Andersson, Erna
• Backstrom, Karl Alfred
• Backstrom, Maria Mathilda
• Berglund, Karl Ivan Sven
• Gustafsson, Anders Vilhelm
• Gustafsson, Johan Birger
• Gustafsson, Alfred Ossian
• Hakkarainen, Pekka Pietari
• Hakkarainen, Elin
• Heikkinen, Laina
• Heininen, Wedla Maria
• Hirvonen, Helga
• Hirvonen, Hildur
• Honkanen, Eliina
• Ilmakangas, Ida Livija
• Ilmakangas, Pieta Sofia
• Johanson, Jakob Alfred
• Jussila, Aina Maria
• Jussila, Eiriik
• Jussila, Katriina
• Kallio, Nikolai Erland
• Laitine, Kristina Sofia
• Leinonen, Antti Gustaf
• Linquist, Eino
• Maenpaa, Matti Aleksanteri
• Makinen, Kalle Edward
• Nieminen, Manta Josefina
• Nirva, Iisakki Aijo
• Niskanen, Johan
• Panula, Ernesti Arvid
• Panula, Jaakko Arnold
• Panula, Juha Niilo
• Panula, Maria Emilia
• Panula, Urho Abraham
• Panula, William
• Pekoniemi, Edvard
• Peltomaki, Nikolai Johannes
• Riihivuori, Santu
• Rintamaki, Matti
• Rosblom, Helena Wilhelmina
• Rosblom, Salli Helena
• Rosblom, Viktor Rickard
• Salonen, Johan Werner
• Sivola, Antii William
• Sjoblem, Anna Sofia
• Strandberg, Ida Sofia
• Stranden, Juho
• Sundman, Johan Julian
• Tikkanen, Juho
• Turja, Anna Sofia
• Turkula, Hedvig
• Wiklund, Jacob Alfred
• Wiklund, Kali Johan

For more information please contact Marko Kuparinen, Kumpu-lanportti 3 A 4, SF 00520 Helsinki, Finland, or the Finnish Newspaper Co., 4422 Eighth Ave., Brooklyn, New York.