Daisy M. Cheatham

Daisy M. Cheatham
Born
Washington D. C.
Other namesDaisy Brymn, Daisy Mitchell
Spouses
​
(divorced)​
Charles E. Cheatham
​
(m. 1928)​

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]

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

  1. ^ "CHEATHAM. Thomas George and Mary Davis Cheatham Family Bible Records". North Carolina Digital Collections. State Archives of North Carolina. Retrieved 19 September 2021.
  2. ^ "Daisy M. Cheatham, circa 1910". Digital Library of Georgia. Retrieved 2021-09-19.
  3. ^ 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.
  4. ^ "New York, New York City Marriage Records, 1829-1940". FamilySearch. Retrieved 19 September 2021.
  5. ^ "Cheatham-Brymn Marriage". New York Age. November 3, 1928. p. 2. Retrieved 19 September 2021.