Miss Madeleine Newell, 31, was born on 10 October 1880, the daughter of Arthur Webster Newell and Mary E. Greeley of Lexington, Massachusetts.

She was returning from a trip to the Middle East with her father and her sister, Marjorie Newell. They boarded the Titanic at Cherbourg. The two sisters occupied cabin D-36, their father was in D-48.

On April 14th their father came to their room and ordered them to dress and go out on deck. After seeing one lifeboat safely launched, he placed them in the next.¹ Arthur Newall was lost in the sinking.

Madeleine Newell never married, and died in Lexington, Massachusetts, 25 April 1969 and is buried at Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts.