Cohee facts for kids

Cohee—also spelled coohee, kohee, quohee—was a name that German, Irish and Scotch-Irish immigrants gave themselves. They settled in the Shenandoah Valley and differentiated themselves from Anglican planters of eastern Virginia who were called Tuckahoes. The Cohee were the first Europeans to settle in what are now Amherst County and Nelson County, Virginia.

The word comes for the Scottish and Northern Irish quo he, a shortened form of quoth. It has come to mean "a backwoods settler of Scots or northern Irish origin". It primarily refers to inhabitants who lived west of the Blue Ridge Mountains in what is now West Virginia. The term also applied to German, Scottish, or Irish people in Pennsylvania.