The woman said she has been interested in the Titanic for as long as she can remember and wanted to do something to commemorate the 110-year anniversary.
Reverend John Harper was a hero of the Titanic disaster 1 HE WAS a true hero of the Titanic disaster in April 1912, but few people outside Kinning Park, where he preached, know the story of the Reverend John Harper. The Glasgow minister was the son of a draper, born in Houston in Renfrewshire. When he was 14, he left school and worked in a paper mill. 2 In 1890, he started preaching and became pastor of the Paisley Road Baptist Church where the congregation grew from 25 to more than 500 during the 13 years he spent there. (It is now the Harper Memorial Baptist Church.) 3 John married Annie Bell in April 1903, and three years later their daughter Nan was born. However, Annie died just seven days later, and was laid to rest in Craigton Cemetery. Shortly after her death, Reverend Harper set sail for Chicago to preach at the Moody Church. He had originally planned to sail to New York on the Lusitania , but, delayed by a change in arrangements, travelled on the Titanic instead wi