Cohee

English

Alternative forms

• Cohea

Etymology

Munster variant of Coffey.

Proper noun

Cohee (plural Cohees)

1. A surname from Irish.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Cohee is the 17798^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 1573 individuals. Cohee is most common among White (86.97%) individuals.

Noun

Cohee (plural Cohees)

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

   Coordinate term: tuckahoe

   • 1961, Marshall William Fishwick, Gentlemen of 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.

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

     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,  […]

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

     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 […]

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Cohee”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 352.

Anagrams

• echoe