Daisy Marion Mitchell Cheatham (born 1881) was an African American actress, songwriter and vaudeville performer who worked with Williams and Walker Company and the Smart Set Company.[1][2] She wrote the lyrics to "Gypsy, my Gypsy Lou," and "Ask Mammy" which she published with James Tim Brymn. While working with the Smart Set she was a member of "The Colored Beauty Chorus" and did her own solo comic bits.[3]
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| Born | Washington D. C. |
| Other names | Daisy Brymn, Daisy Mitchell |
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Cheatham was born in Washington, DC. to William P. Mitchell and Fannie P. Mitchell.[3] She married James Tim Brymn in the early 1900s and traveled with him to London in 1904.[4] The couple divorced in the early 1920s and she remarried to Charles E. Cheatham, son of ex-congressman Henry P. Cheatham, on October 7, 1928.[5]
References
edit- ^ "CHEATHAM. Thomas George and Mary Davis Cheatham Family Bible Records". North Carolina Digital Collections. State Archives of North Carolina. Retrieved 19 September 2021.
- ^ "Daisy M. Cheatham, circa 1910". Digital Library of Georgia. Retrieved 2021-09-19.
- ^ a b Lefferts, Peter M (2016-08-29). "Chronology and Itinerary of the Career of J. Tim Brymn Materials for a Biography". DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln. Retrieved 2021-09-19.
- ^ "New York, New York City Marriage Records, 1829-1940". FamilySearch. Retrieved 19 September 2021.
- ^ "Cheatham-Brymn Marriage". New York Age. November 3, 1928. p. 2. Retrieved 19 September 2021.