Individual Details
(Jul 18, 1865 - Aug 16, 1946)
BIOGRAPHY: After her first husband's death (Anton Jochum), she ran th e family s tore to support herself and her two children from that marr iage, Steve and Mary Jochum. After two or three years, her father he ard that a German family's son had just been discharged from the Calv ary of Emperor Franz Josef (1830 - 1916) . The two fathers agreed tha t they should meet and Clara later married Michel Rastatter. In late J anuary 1905 Michael left for the US. Stepson Steve (Jochu m) left fo r the US later that year also. Clara and the other three children ( M ary, James and Anna), left Bremen, Germany on May 2, 1907 aboard th e SS Breslau , and arrived in Baltimore, Maryland on May 18, 1907. Ab oard ship Clara met Mi chael's cousin Joseph Rastatter and his daughte r Theresa whom she took under he r wing (Theresa had been separated fr om her father during the trip as male and female passengers in third c lass steerage lived in separate dormitory like acco modations). There sa said that the ship was crowded and hot in the sleeping qua rters, a nd that many people on board were sick (though she was not). She reme m bers sneaking up to second-class steerage, with Mary Jochum, to danc e to music that the other passengers would play.
Events
| Birth | Jul 18, 1865 | German St. Peter, Arad, Romania | |  | |
| Marriage | Bet 1884 and 1888 | German St. Peter, Arad, Romania - Anton Jochum | | | |
| Marriage | Abt, 1896 | German St. Peter, Arad, Romania - Michael Rastatter | | | |
| Marriage | 1896/97 | German St. Peter, Arad, Romania - Michael Rastatter | | | |
| Immigration | May 18, 1907 | German St. Peter, Arad, Romania | | | |
| Death | Aug 16, 1946 | Cleveland, Ohio | | | |
| Burial | | Calvary Cemetery, Cleveland, Ohio | | | |
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