Ida Cohen

Departed Hamburg July 7, 1891, age 20, destination New York. Ida Duchansky sailed on the English ship, Panther, which made a stop in Liverpool, on the way to America. Residence: Meretz, Russland (likely Merkine, Lithuania, today) Source: Hamburg Passenger Lists (Ancestry.com)

Death Closes Eventful Life For Resident Of Hamilton.

Death closed the eyes of a mother at Hamilton, Ohio, yesterday. Closing them, it ended a life that had had more than its share of tragedy yet almost as great a measure of joy. The mother was Mrs. Ida Cohen, born Ida Dushane in Vilna, Russia, May 11, 1871; wedded to Abraham Cohen in Franklin, Pa., in 1898. Ida and Abraham Cohen became the parents of 11 children. The tragedy: Abraham Cohen, having made a brief business trip to Cincinnati stopped in a building on Sixth Street, near Mound Street, on his way to the old Baymiller Street station to catch a train for Hamilton. It was July 7, 1915 the day of the "Sixth Street tornado." Abraham Cohen and several other persons were killed when the building came down about them. The news was taken to his widow and 10 children at Hamilton. Eleven weeks after the father's death the eleventh child was born. The joy: After her husband's death, Ida Cohen, mother of 10 children and expecting an eleventh, took charge of the Hamilton Barrel Dealers, the business which her husband had founded. The business prospered. The children grew into upright citizens. All of them went through high school; most of them had all or part of a college education. Gail, the baby of the family, who never was held in her father's arms, is finishing the third year of her pre-medical course at Ohio State University. Tragedy struck the family again 14 years ago when illness sent Ida Cohen to the bed from which she did not rise again. But her sons and daughters, some of them, had become men and women. They cared for her and for their father's business. Even in' Ida Dushane Cohen's death there was a somber note of joy. For a coma descended on her. When she passed away 24 hours later it was quietly, peacefully, in a sleep. Mrs. Cohen had lived a few years in Cincinnati before going to Hamilton 25 years ago. She died at her home, 337 Ross Avenue. During the 25 years of her residence and business activity in Hamilton she had attracted a large circle of friends. Surviving Mrs. Cohen, beside Joseph and Gail Cohen, are her nine other children Miss Bess Cohen, Cincinnati; Louis, George, and Miss Golde Cohen, all of Hamilton; Mrs. Rose Miller, Akron; Miss Zelda Cohen, Mrs. Mary Nassberg, Miss Sara Cohen, and Elliott William Cohen, all of New York; two grandsons; three sisters, Mrs. Rose Pri-mack, Haverhill, Mass., Mrs. Goldie Finger, Lynn, Mass., and Mrs. Louis Wiseman, Emlenton, Pa., and one brother, Israel Dushane, Lynn, Mass. Services will be held at the residence in Hamilton at. 1 o'clock this afternoon, under the direction of the Weil Funeral Home of Cincinnati. Burial will be in a Jewish cemetery in Price Hill.