♀Eriphile Joffrion

Eriphile Joffrion (born 3 August 1801, Pointe Coupee, Louisiana) was a daughter of Joseph Jason Joffrion and Juliana Guerin, and the third of three sisters in the family to marry a Gremillon. She was the sister of Celeste Aimee Joffrion (1799–1850), the great-great-grandmother of Floyd Amatus Delahorne (1922–2014).

Marriage

Eriphile was baptized 20 June 1802 in Pointe Coupee. On 7 August 1821, at her home, she married Trenee Gremillon, son of Charles Gremillon, who was already deceased, and Jeanne Legay. Her elder sisters had married into the same family before her — Helene to Maximilien Gremillon, and Hypolite (also recorded under the name Pauline) to Cyprien Gremillon in May 1811 — and Charles, Cyprien and Maximilien Gremillon all stood as witnesses at Eriphile’s own wedding.

No record of Eriphile’s death has been found.

Notes

Name

Her given name, Ériphile, is drawn from classical Greek legend by way of the stage: it is the name of a character in Jean Racine’s 1674 tragedy Iphigénie. French colonial families in Louisiana sometimes reached for such literary and classical names; no record explains why her own parents chose it for her.