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]

Daisy M. Cheatham
Born	Washington D. C.
Other names	Daisy Brymn, Daisy Mitchell
Spouses	James Tim Brymn ​ (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]