Meaning of Cohee | Babel Free

Definitions

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

Examples

“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.”

“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, […]”

“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[…]”

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