Joshua Lazarus (1796-1861) was the grandfather of architect Edgar M. Lazarus. Joshua owned a shoe factory in Cheraw, S. C., and instrumental in bringing natural gas to Charleston. Joshua was president of the congregation Kahal Kadosh Beth Elohim, the South's oldest synagouge, 1851-1861. Joshua married Phebe Yates (1794-1870), a native of Liverpool, England, in Liverpool in October 1835. The artist Amelie Dautel D'Aubigny painted portraits of the two while they were in Europe in 1835. Joshua died at age 65 in South Carolina. Phebe died in Baltimore at age 76. The portraits of Joshua, his sister Emma, and his wife Phebe can be found in the Gibbs Museum of Art, Charleston. These portraits are watercolor on ivory miniatures.
Source: In Pursuit of Refinement; Charlestonians Abroad, 1740-1860. University of South Carolina Press, 1999. p.242