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===Survivors=== On January 26, 2004, the last surviving passenger from ''General Slocum'', [[Adella Wotherspoon]] (née Liebenow), died at the age of 100. At the time of the disaster, she was a six-month-old infant. Wotherspoon was the youngest survivor of the tragedy that took the lives of her two older sisters. When she was one year old, she unveiled the Steamboat Fire Mass Memorial on June 15, 1905, at Lutheran All Faiths Cemetery, in [[Middle Village, Queens]].<ref name="Unveiling"> {{cite news | title = Thousands Sob as Baby Unveils Slocum Statue | quote = Ten thousand persons saw through their tears a baby with a doll tucked under her arm unveil the monument to the unidentified dead of the Slocum disaster yesterday afternoon in the Lutheran Cemetery, Middle Village, L.I. | work= [[The New York Times]] | url = http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F40714FC3B5E12738DDDAF0994DE405B858CF1D3 | date = June 16, 1905 | access-date =June 26, 2007 }} </ref> Before Wotherspoon's death, the previous oldest survivor was [[Catherine Uhlmyer|Catherine Connelly (née Uhlmyer)]] (1893–2002) who was 11 years old at the time of the disaster. <gallery class="center" widths="187px" heights="187px"> File:Youngest Slocum Survivor crop.jpg|[[Adella Wotherspoon]]<br/>(June 16, 1905) </gallery>
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