The couple had nine children: Joshua (1788-1788); Jacob Jr. (1789-1869); Solomon (b. 1791); Philip (1793-1852); Maria (1794-1834); Mendes (1796-1879); Benjamin (1797-1845); David (1800-1847); Joshua (1801-1870); and Edward (1802-1803).[4][1]
When Israel died on July 29, 1803, his house and belongings were auctioned off because at that time women could not own property.[1] Cohen moved her seven children to Baltimore, where she became a boarderofShinah Solomon Etting.[5][6] Later her son Benjamin would marry Etting's daughter Kitty and the couple became part of Baltimore's elite social circle.[1]
In 1813, Cohen's sons founded Cohen's Lottery and Exchange. The lottery was very successful and the brothers opened five branch offices in other cities.[7] It published its own four-page newspaper, Cohen's Gazette and Lottery Register from 1814 until 1830, containing lottery as well as financial news.[7] In 1831, they opened Jacob I. Cohen, Jr. and Brothers Banking House.[8]
The Cohen family lived in a large house on North Charles Street where they kept kosher and held daily services.[9][10] In the 1850s, they were the sponsors of the short-lived Sephardic Congregation.[9][11]
Judith Solomon Cohen died in Baltimore on April 5, 1837. The family purchased a tract for her burial on Saratoga Street; it would be used for family burials until the 1970s, when the family was reinterred at Baltimore Hebrew Cemetery.[9][12]
^ abcFein, Isaac (1971). "The Making of an American Jewish Community: The History of Baltimore Jewry from 1773 to 1920". The Jewish Publication Society. Philadelphia PA.