Rachel and Jessica Cohen

The girl depicted here is most likely Jessica (Jessie) Cohen, daughter of Virginia Davis and Isaac S. Cohen of Charleston. Isaac’s great-grandfather, Moses Cohen had arrived to Charleston from England in the mid-eighteenth century. The woman, recorded here as Jessica’s grandmother was, in fact, more likely her great aunt, Rachel Moses Cohen, whose children included Frances, the wife of Jonas Altamont Phillips.

 

 

Rachel and Jessica Cohen

1840