Daisy M. Cheatham

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] 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.