Josephine Eleanora Joachim

1884 - 1927  (43 years)

• Name	Josephine Eleanora Joachim
  Born	21 Aug 1884	New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA
  Gender	Female
  Died	6 Nov 1927	Shrewsbury, Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, USA
  Person ID	I128983	Suedpfalz
  Last Modified	27 Sep 2014

  
  

  Father	Benjamin Franklin Joachim,   b. 31 Jul 1853, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA ,   d. 13 Jan 1925, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA  (Age 71 years)
  Mother	Rosa Madeline Bokenfohr,   b. 4 Sep 1861, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA ,   d. 19 Jan 1934, Ocean Springs, Jackson County, Mississippi, USA  (Age 72 years)
  Married	24 Feb 1881	New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA
  Family ID	F54996	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Robert Eugene Lee,   b. 24 Sep 1885, Pensacola, Escambia County, Florida, USA ,   d. 6 Nov 1927, Shrewsbury, Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, USA  (Age 42 years)
  Married	Jun 1909	Ocean Springs, Jackson County, Mississippi, USA
  Children	1. Rosemary Lee,   b. 1913, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA   2. Robert Cyril Lee,   b. 1915, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA   3. Gretchen Lee,   b. 1917, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA ,   d. 6 Nov 1927, Shrewsbury, Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, USA  (Age 10 years)   4. Helena Lee,   b. 1921   5. Jane Lee,   b. 1923,   d. 6 Nov 1927, Shrewsbury, Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, USA  (Age 4 years)
  Last Modified	1 May 2018
  Family ID	F54999	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  BIOGRAPHY: http://oceanspringsarchives.net/node/73 JOSEPHINE E. JOACHIM Josephine Eleanora Joachim (1884-1927) was born at New Orleans, Louisiana on August 21, 1884. In 1904, she graduated from the Soule Business College in New Orleans. Josephine married Robert Eugene Lee (1887-1927) of Vancleave, Mississippi in June 1909, at her father?s home in Ocean Springs. Houston Martin was the best man and Miss Queenie Joachim, attended her sister.(The Pascagoula Democrat-Star, July 1, 1904, p. 3 and The Ocean Springs News, June 19, 1909) Josephine and R.E. Lee were the parents of: Rosemary Lee, Robert E. Lee Jr., Gretchen Lee (1917-1927), Helena Lee (b. 1921), and Jane Lee (1923-1927). Family tragedy In early November 1927, a devastating incident occurred in the Joachim family at New Orleans, when the car driven by Robert E. Lee was struck by the Sunset Limited, a fast passenger train of the Southern Pacific Railroad. Mr. Lee, his spouse, and five children were in the motorcar when it was rammed at the grade crossing on Shrewbury Road adjacent to Jefferson Park. Ironically, they had come to New Orleans from their suburban Southport home to place flowers on the grave of B.F. Joachim Sr. who was interred in the Metairie Cemetery. Rosemary Lee and R.E. Lee Jr. survived the crash while Mr. Lee, Josephine Joachim Lee, Gretchen Lee, Jane Lee, and Bernard Potin Jr. (1921-1927) were killed. Bernard Potin Jr. was the son of Queenie Joachim Potin, the sister of Josephine J. Lee. He had taken the place of Helena Lee in the car as she stayed with her Aunt Queenie in the Potin home situated at 410 Old Homestead Avenue, Bonnabel Place, Metairie. The Lee family members who died in the accident were all interred in a single tomb in the Metairie Cemetery.(The Jackson County Times, November 12, 1927, p. 1)