NEW YORK -- Unlike the fictional film character Rose, Virginia Clark’s love story started before she boarded the Titanic in 1912. But Clark’s story shares one devastating similarity to the fictional character: it ends in tragedy -- as she, too, said goodbye to the man she loved that night. 
 
 Clark also left behind an 18-carat gold locket, which was discovered inside a small carry-on bag that was recently recovered from the Titanic’s wreck site. 
 
 Poker chips, several pieces of jewelry and a gold-plated toiletry item were also found inside the bag that belonged to Clark and her husband, Walter. 
 
 Walter, his father and his uncle, prominent U.S. Senator William Andrews Clark, were mining magnates in Los Angeles in the early 1900s. They built a railroad that facilitated shipments of metal ores between Los Angeles and Salt Lake City, Utah, with a connecting point in Las Vegas, Alexandra Klingelhofer, vice president of collections for Premier Exhibitions, Inc., told CBS News. 
 
 He met his bride while visiting his home state of Montana. 
 
 The first-class passengers boarded the “ship of dreams” at a port in Cherbourg, France, as a belated honeymoon trip. They booked a trip on the Titanic in hopes they would make it home in time for their 2-year-old son’s birthday. 
 
 “Sadly, Walter did not make it, but Virginia did,” Klingelhofer said. 
 
 Working as a historian, curator and researcher, Klingelhofer has been helping identify lost artifacts from the wreck of the RMS Titanic for more than eight years. This recent discovery was easy to put together, given Clark’s unusual initials, “VC,” which are engraved on the locket. 
 
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 It’s also known, according to Klingelhofer, that Clark ran to find her husband after she felt the ship hit an iceburg. Walter was playing poker with friends in a smoking lounge at the time. 
 
 “When we found those poker chips, everything kind of looked right,” Klingelhofer added. 
 
 Like most of the the other male passengers, Walter helped his wife onto lifeboat No. 4 and stayed behind. 
 
 “There was room for him,” Klingelhofer said. “When you get down to the water you can see there was room, but it’s too late at that point.” 
 
 The intials “S.M.” were also found on a gold-plated toiletry item. The “M” likely stood for “McDowell,” Clark’s maiden name. Klingelhofer believes it was meant to be a present for a relative. 
 
 An online database of information about the Titanic and its passengers claims Clark died on December 21, 1958, so there’s not really a direct line to her relatives, Klingelhofer explained. 
 
 The Clarks’ story and other items from the Titanic will be on display on April 12 at Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition inside Las Vegas’ Luxor Hotel and Casino ahead of the 105th anniversary of the ship’s sinking on April 15, 1912. 
 
 Klingelhofer said she has a rewarding task of looking at pieces closely and seeing if she can find ways to identify where they came from, where they were made and who they belonged to. 
 
 “It’s a very rewarding task and it allows me to contribute also to the legacy of Titanic in a personal way,” she said. ||||| The last time he was seen alive, Sante Righini was standing on the deck of the sinking Titanic, his fate sealed. 
 
 The young New York man with dark hair and a wispy mustache went down with the doomed ship after carrying out a final – and ultimately fatal – act of chivalry. 
 
 As passengers rushed onto lifeboats that morning in April 1912, Righini is said to have given up his seat to a woman who had cried out to him. 
 
 The 28-year-old’s body was fished out of the icy North Atlantic days later. 
 
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 “My brother died a hero,�? his sister Emma Wenger said at his funeral at her Bay Ridge home, according to a May 1912 article in the Standard Union newspaper. 
 
 Righini’s story seemed to end there. 
 
 But two months ago, an email arrived in the inbox of the Evergreens Cemetery in Brooklyn. 
 
 Evergreens Cemetery is Brooklyn is the burial site of Sante Righini, who was killed on the Titanic. He is buried here with his sister Emma and her husband Frederick Wenger. The cemetery will get a sign made by the Titanic Historical Society. (Debbie Egan-Chin/New York Daily News) 
 
 A British forklift driver-turned-Titanic researcher had been scouring the internet for clues of Righini’s final resting place. 
 
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 “I am looking for the grave site of Sante Righini,�? wrote Trevor Baxter, 63, of Yorkshire. “I believe he is buried here.�? 
 
 Intrigued, an Evergreen interment clerk punched the name Sante Righini into the cemetery’s online system. He was in fact buried there. What popped up on her screen as Righini’s place of death felt like a piece of history: “Sea. S.S. Titanic.�? 
 
 “I was so excited,�? said the clerk, Nicole Segarra. “It’s amazing to know that there’s someone here that died on the Titanic.�? 
 
 The cemetery is commissioning a special sign to mark Righini's grave. A wreath-laying ceremony will be held at the site on April 15, the 105th anniversary of the world's most infamous maritime disaster. 
 
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 “There’s so much interest in the Titanic,�? said the cemetery’s president Julie Bose. “We’re delighted that we’re able to bring history alive at the Evergreens Cemetery.�? 
 
 Righini was a passenger aboard the Titanic. He was 28 when he died. (PRESS OFFICE HANDOUT/EPA) 
 
 Only the barest contours of Righini’s abbreviated life are known. 
 
 Born in Italy, he arrived in the U.S in 1903 and settled in Manhattan. He applied for U.S. citizenship in 1910 listing his occupation as a valet, records show. 
 
 Righini eventually landed a job as a “manservant�? to a wealthy widow named Ella White, who had a vast estate in Briarcliff Manor and a permanent suite at the Waldorf-Astoria. 
 
 It was through White that Righini punched his ticket onto the magnificent cruiseliner hailed as unsinkable. 
 
 White, Righini, her maid and a female friend boarded the ship in Cherbourg, France, at the tail end of a European vacation. 
 
 Even before disaster struck, it wasn’t an especially pleasant trip for the group. 
 
 White sprained her ankle while boarding the ship. She remained holed up in her lavish cabin where she was attended to by the faithful Righini. 
 
 About a quarter to midnight on April 14, White felt the slightest of vibrations. She had no way of knowing the ship had slammed into an iceberg. 
 
 “It was just as though we went over a thousand marbles,�? White would later tell a Senate committee. 
 
 White and her entourage eventually went out onto the deck. One of the ship’s captains suddenly appeared and ordered them to put on life preservers. 
 
 From the top deck, White, her friend and maid were helped onto Lifeboat No. 8. Righini, dressed in black pants and a grey overcoat, stayed behind. 
 
 “I have learned he was about to enter one of the lifeboats when a woman behind him appealed to be saved and, stepping aside, he allowed her to take a place in the boat,�? Righini’s sister said at his funeral. 
 
 Cemetery historian Donato Daddario shows an entry "Sea. S.S. Titanic" found in their records. The staff was unaware that a Titanic victim is buried there until a British research contacted them. (Debbie Egan-Chin/New York Daily News) 
 
 “When last seen he was standing on the deck, waiting for the ship to sink.�? 
 
 Righini’s body arrived at Evergreens on May 4, 1912. An undertaker identified as J. Senger buried him in a plot along the back end of the cemetery near Cypress Ave. 
 
 These details, along with Righini’s revealing place of death, are noted in one of the cemetery’s century-old, 3-foot-long log books with yellowing pages that are kept in a fireproof vault. 
 
 More than 526,000 people are buried at Evergreens, including actors, professional athletes and politicians. But the staff had no idea a Titanic victim was among its permanent residents. 
 
 That changed with the Feb. 17 email from the British Titanic researcher. Baxter developed a lead on Righini’s final resting place after finding conflicting information online and contacting other historians. 
 
 When Evergreen confirmed his tip, Baxter was overjoyed. 
 
 Righini was on a lifeboat like this one when he gave his seat to woman crying for help. (General Photographic Agency/Getty Images) 
 
 “They were absolutely over the moon about it, and I am as well,�? Baxter said. 
 
 For Donato Daddario, Evergreen’s resident historian, the discovery made his year. 
 
 It was Daddario who set off to find the gravesite after Baxter initially contacted the cemetery. 
 
 There it was — “Sante Righini 1883 - 1912�? — not far from one of the victims of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire that killed 146 garment workers in 1911. 
 
 A relative had replaced Righini’s original headstone with one that included his sister and her husband after she died in 1959. 
 
 “I saw it,�? Daddario recalled, “and I said to myself, ‘Finally, I had someone from the Titanic.’�? 
 
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– Like 1,500 others, Sante Righini went down with the Titanic on April 15, 1912. But his was a heroic end, his sister explained at his funeral. The 28-year-old Italian-born man—who boarded the ship in France alongside the wealthy widow who employed him as a manservant in Manhattan—had been moments from safety, about to take a seat in a lifeboat, "when a woman behind him appealed to be saved and, stepping aside, he allowed her to take a place in the boat," Righini's sister said at the 1912 service, per the New York Daily News. "When last seen he was standing on the deck, waiting for the ship to sink." His body was pulled from Atlantic days later, but what became of it was lost to history—until now. After learning of Righini, British researcher Trevor Baxter received a tip earlier this year that he might've been laid to rest at Evergreens Cemetery in Brooklyn, NY. An entry in a yellowed, century-old log book at Evergreens confirmed his body arrived on May 4, 1912, and was buried at the back of the cemetery. Righini's place of death was given as "Sea. SS Titanic." "It's amazing to know that there’s someone here that died on the Titanic," says a cemetery clerk. Baxter adds he's "over the moon" to have tracked Righini down. In other Titanic news, CBS News reports a first-class passenger's gold locket, recently found on the ocean floor, will go on display in Las Vegas this week to mark the 105th anniversary of the disaster. (You'll soon be able to visit the Titanic.)