Leah Lazarus^[1]

1778 - 1844  (65 years)

• Name	Leah Lazarus  [2, 3]
  Born	19 Oct 1778	Charleston, SC   [3]
  Gender	Female
  Reference Number	3882
  Died	26 Feb 1844  [3]
  Person ID	I3882	aojd
  Last Modified	11 Nov 2011

  
  

  Mother	Richa Benjamin,   b. 25 Aug 1762, New York ,   d. 6 Nov 1847, Charleston, SC  (Age 85 years)
  Family ID	F1358	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Children	1. Cornelia Cohen,   b. 28 Nov 1805,   d. 19 Sep 1886, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania  (Age 80 years)   2. Eliza Cohen,   b. 1800,   d. 7 Oct 1811  (Age 11 years)   3. Lucretia Cohen,   b. 1807,   d. 8 Aug 1888  (Age 81 years)
  Family ID	F1357	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  (Research):AJLLJ Portrait Database 5 Aug 2011 The daughter of Marks and Richa Lazarus, Leah was the second of seventeen born into this Sephardic South Carolina family. We can be certain that she helped her mother raise her numerous younger siblings— including Benjamin Dores, Emma and Joshua— not only given the size of the family, but because of their financial instability. Her father, who had served in Lushington's company during the Revolutionary War, was not particularly successful in business, and in 1785 he had Leah's mother declared a sole trader. After that she had the responsibility of running the family shop on top of her maternal duties.      Leah, at seventeen, suddenly entered a world of greater luxury and financial ease. She married Mordecai Cohen, a successful Polish peddler who had become a merchant. They came to own a plantation on the Ashley River, which served as their entrée into the elite of Carolina planter society. Leah and Mordecai had five children. The oldest to survive childhood, daughter Cornelia, would marry one of Leah's youngest siblings, Benjamin Dores. [4]

  
  

• Sources

  [S285] . [S4] PG.35 COHEN VII (Reliability: 3). QUAY 3 [S4] PG.151 LAZARUS II (SOUTH CAROLINA) (Reliability: 3). QUAY 3 [S294] COHEN, LEAH LAZARUS (Reliability: 3).