Joseph LaSalle

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      Sex: M

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Individual Information

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     Birth Date: Abt 1787 - Hambourg, Germany
    Christening: 
          Death: After 1878
         Burial: 
 Cause of Death: 

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Spouses and Children

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1. *Amada Adele Giraudeau
       Marriage: 
       Children:
                1. Elizabeth LaSalle
                2. Josephine LaSalle
                3. J. Emerite F. LaSalle {FGID: 34931680}
                4. Catherine LaSalle

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Notes

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General:

Per Pitre Family web site:
- Joseph Lasalle may have been a soldier who participated in the War of 1812. There was a Sergeant Lassale who was part of the 2nd Battalion (D'Aquin's) of the Louisiana Militia.

- 1830 New Orleans census (p. 242) - Joseph Lasalle males 1 (40-50), 4 female slaves (24-35), 1 male <10 free person of color, 3 females <10 free persons of color, 1 female (24-36) free person of color

[Joseph Lasalle 43, Amada Adele Giraudeau 35, 4 slaves belonging to Adele (named in will), Adele's son Gabriel Giraudeau c7, Adele & Joseph's 3 daughters (Elizabeth 3, Josephine 2, Emerite infant)]

- 1832 city directory: Joseph Lasalle, dry goods store, c. Conde & Main

- 1834 city directory: Joseph Lasalle, dry goods, 237 Royal d. 179 St. Peter

- From The Early Jews of New Orleans (Bertran Wallace Korn): From April 1829 to May 1830 he (Simon Cohen) was Sergeant Major of the Artillery Battalion. In October 1830, he was elected 2nd Lieutenant, another Jew, Joseph Lasalle replaced him in his former post (p. 156). Another Jew who was active in the Louisiana Militia was Joseph Lasalle, who served as Acting Adjutant of the 2nd Regiment in 1829, and was elected Sergeant Major, then Lieutenant of the Tirailleurs in 1830-31. Lasalle was also interested in politics. In 1828-30, he served as clerk of the 4th ward elections; in 1833 he was a judge at the polls. His name was placed in nomination for the office of enrolling clerk of state legislature in 1833, but he received only 3 votes. Lasalle ran what he called a "cheap store", where he sold dry goods, liquor, glassware and china, jewelry, firecrackers and other odds and ends, first on St. Philip street, then at the corner of Conde and Dumaine, finally at 237 Royal. He went bankrupt in 1834, at which time he was in debt to Manis Jacobs for $1,628.00. His creditors finally accepted settlements in 1837, but it is uncertain whether he was still in New Orleans at that time. Lasalle faded from view as silently as he had appeared in 1827. Lasalle was probably not a Frenchman, despite his name, but rather a German who, like others, adopted the name under French influence during the Napoleonic period. (pp. 177-8) Members of the First Jewish congregation established in New Orleans list J. Lasalle. (p. 198) In addition to accepting responsibility for funeral arrangements, the congregation also seems to have undertaken to fulfill the role of surviving family for Jews who died in financial straits or who had no immediate family. Joseph Lasalle and Manis Jacobs seem to have performed a congregational duty when they witnessed the will of Sarah Jessurun Cohn who had been married only 2 days previously to Salomon Cohn: she died a week after her wedding. (p. 238)