Re: KEOHANE/COHAN/COHeN/KEOHAN
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Re: KEOHANE/COHAN/COHeN/KEOHAN
Jack O'Connor 11/08/05
Dear Jack,
Thanks so much for your note and the links to other Cohans!Yes, that Foster Barnett Cohan is my dad.Only a minor correction - he died June 16,1987 rather than June 1. He died at a hospital in Lynchburg, VA and is buried in Forest, VA.He did marry on Sept. 1, 1957 in Charlotte, NC - to Patricia Freeman.He was born in Atlanta, GA.
I do not know if his father, Foster Cohan (no middle name) was born in Madison, GA or in Ohio where his father Samuel Cohan came from.Dad said that his grandfather Sam Cohan was a wealthy businessman in Madison who owned the bank and the general store, but he didn't know him and got this from family stories. I do have a photo of him wearing a diamond stickpin. Both Fosters were the only child, so there is no extended family for me to contact.I know the poor and illiterate are hard to trace, but I would think that a wealthy businessman would have many documented transactions.
I looked at the record of Cohans through Ellis Island (www.ellisisland.org), and they come from a wide variety of places, even Russia, Hungary, Peru, Italy.I imagine that those folks had another name that was changed to Cohan once here.Since my father and grandfather have such Irish first and middle names, I assume their origin is Irish.
I was surprised by the posting of John Keohane that in Cork it is believed that the family is originally Jewish and the name is from Cohanim. I'd like to learn more about that.
These Cohans sure are hard to trace.I have my Polk/Pollok line back to 1053 in Scotland and the Langstons to 1603 in England, but I don't even know when or where my great grandfather Cohan was born or died.Thank you for your help.
Celia Cohan Fenolietto
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Jack O'Connor 11/11/05
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Jack O'Connor 11/12/05
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