The daughter of cottonseed extractor Jules Jean Aldige' and his wife, Alice Francois Marie LaPretre. Amelie married Dr. Robert Urquhart Borde in December of 1891.
Amelie and her daughter, Amy, were killed along with Amelie's mother Alice Aldige' in the sinking of the steamship La Bourgogne in the Atlantic Ocean on July 4, 1898. It is to their memory that the Aldige' monument features two women in grief, holding on to one other at the bow of a boat on top of the Aldige tomb. This is one of the more notorious monuments at Metarie Cemetery, photographed often. They were lost at sea and not buried in New Orleans. The La Bourgogne sinking would expose the crew of the ship of horrific behavior, murdering passengers, mainly women, by shoving them with oars from liferafts, cutting lifelines. This horrified people worldwide who demanded justice. The maritime law casually called "women and children first" went into effect as a result of the tragedy.
An excerpt newspaper account from The Salt Lake Herald; July 7, 1898, page 2:
NOTABLE VICTIMS.
Well-known People From All Parts of the Country.
New Orleans, July 6. - The only *New Orleans people known to have been aboard La Bourgogne are Mrs. Jules Aldige, sr., her daughter, Mrs. Dr. Robert Bordie [sic], and the latter's little girl. Mrs. Aldige and her daughter are well-known in New Orleans society.
*Other New Orleans residents who perished in the shipwreck were Mrs. Pauline Costa Langles and her daughter, Miss Angele Langles.
Amelie and her daughter, Amy, were killed along with Amelie's mother Alice Aldige' in the sinking of the steamship La Bourgogne in the Atlantic Ocean on July 4, 1898. It is to their memory that the Aldige' monument features two women in grief, holding on to one other at the bow of a boat on top of the Aldige tomb. This is one of the more notorious monuments at Metarie Cemetery, photographed often. They were lost at sea and not buried in New Orleans. The La Bourgogne sinking would expose the crew of the ship of horrific behavior, murdering passengers, mainly women, by shoving them with oars from liferafts, cutting lifelines. This horrified people worldwide who demanded justice. The maritime law casually called "women and children first" went into effect as a result of the tragedy.
An excerpt newspaper account from The Salt Lake Herald; July 7, 1898, page 2:
NOTABLE VICTIMS.
Well-known People From All Parts of the Country.
New Orleans, July 6. - The only *New Orleans people known to have been aboard La Bourgogne are Mrs. Jules Aldige, sr., her daughter, Mrs. Dr. Robert Bordie [sic], and the latter's little girl. Mrs. Aldige and her daughter are well-known in New Orleans society.
*Other New Orleans residents who perished in the shipwreck were Mrs. Pauline Costa Langles and her daughter, Miss Angele Langles.
The daughter of cottonseed extractor Jules Jean Aldige' and his wife, Alice Francois Marie LaPretre. Amelie married Dr. Robert Urquhart Borde in December of 1891.
Amelie and her daughter, Amy, were killed along with Amelie's mother Alice Aldige' in the sinking of the steamship La Bourgogne in the Atlantic Ocean on July 4, 1898. It is to their memory that the Aldige' monument features two women in grief, holding on to one other at the bow of a boat on top of the Aldige tomb. This is one of the more notorious monuments at Metarie Cemetery, photographed often. They were lost at sea and not buried in New Orleans. The La Bourgogne sinking would expose the crew of the ship of horrific behavior, murdering passengers, mainly women, by shoving them with oars from liferafts, cutting lifelines. This horrified people worldwide who demanded justice. The maritime law casually called "women and children first" went into effect as a result of the tragedy.
An excerpt newspaper account from The Salt Lake Herald; July 7, 1898, page 2:
NOTABLE VICTIMS.
Well-known People From All Parts of the Country.
New Orleans, July 6. - The only *New Orleans people known to have been aboard La Bourgogne are Mrs. Jules Aldige, sr., her daughter, Mrs. Dr. Robert Bordie [sic], and the latter's little girl. Mrs. Aldige and her daughter are well-known in New Orleans society.
*Other New Orleans residents who perished in the shipwreck were Mrs. Pauline Costa Langles and her daughter, Miss Angele Langles.
Amelie and her daughter, Amy, were killed along with Amelie's mother Alice Aldige' in the sinking of the steamship La Bourgogne in the Atlantic Ocean on July 4, 1898. It is to their memory that the Aldige' monument features two women in grief, holding on to one other at the bow of a boat on top of the Aldige tomb. This is one of the more notorious monuments at Metarie Cemetery, photographed often. They were lost at sea and not buried in New Orleans. The La Bourgogne sinking would expose the crew of the ship of horrific behavior, murdering passengers, mainly women, by shoving them with oars from liferafts, cutting lifelines. This horrified people worldwide who demanded justice. The maritime law casually called "women and children first" went into effect as a result of the tragedy.
An excerpt newspaper account from The Salt Lake Herald; July 7, 1898, page 2:
NOTABLE VICTIMS.
Well-known People From All Parts of the Country.
New Orleans, July 6. - The only *New Orleans people known to have been aboard La Bourgogne are Mrs. Jules Aldige, sr., her daughter, Mrs. Dr. Robert Bordie [sic], and the latter's little girl. Mrs. Aldige and her daughter are well-known in New Orleans society.
*Other New Orleans residents who perished in the shipwreck were Mrs. Pauline Costa Langles and her daughter, Miss Angele Langles.
Inscription
"In memory of mother, sister, and niece lost on Steamship La Bourgogne"
Gravesite Details
Cenotaph
