Cohee

plural Cohees · alternative Cohea · alternative Coohee

1. A surname from Irish.

plural Cohees · alternative Cohea · alternative Coohee

1. A person living in or west of the mountainous areas of western Virginia and West Virginia.

   Small-farm “Cohees” of the Shenandoah were mainly German and Scotch-Irish. They were industrious, duty-loving, puritanical. Rivalry and antipathy between Tuckahoe and Cohee began early, and still exists today.

   1961, Marshall William Fishwick, Gentlemen of Virginia

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   Even closer to home, Johnny watches with growing concern the widening gulf between the stable and “civilized” Tidewater inhabitants, the Tuckahoes of Old Virginia, and the settlers of the Appalachian frontier, the Cohees of New Virginia, […]

   1995, Robert J. Higgs, Ambrose N. Manning, Appalachia Inside Out: Conflict and change, Univ. of Tennessee Press, →ISBN, page 23

   Like the Cohees of Virginia, Pennsylvanians west of the Alleghenies often viewed their neighbors to the east with suspicion and outright hostility. A federal excise tax provided the flashpoint for 1794's Whiskey Rebellion, and[…]

   2009 December 1, Sean Patrick Adams, Old Dominion Industrial Commonwealth: Coal, Politics, and Economy in Antebellum America, Johns Hopkins University Press+ORM, →ISBN