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]

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

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
  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.