Tom, just located Seymour, Missouri on map. It is located southeast of
Springfield, Greene Co., Missouri. Hope that helps. Judy
From: Travelback4u(a)aol.com
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 19:27:28 EST
To: CAVE-L(a)rootsweb.com
Subject: [CAVE] re: New Info/(Jennie E./Virginia Ellen Swisher, Cave, Cooper
Resent-From: CAVE-L(a)rootsweb.com
Resent-Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 17:27:55 -0700
Hello
Ok, for three years or more I have been in a nearly desperate search of my
great grandmother's gravesite and praying for a photograph for my mom, now
83, who would very much like to know about the grandmother she never met.
Today, I was given an excerpt from a unknown book, that had been given to
a Ernest Eakins in 1990 by a Delores Fay Greeg Harboldt Evans of Melbourne
Florida. Tommorrow, I may learn more about the book. But tonight, I want to
tell you this new information.
Jennie E. Swisher, born abt 1856, who married Merritt Henry Cave on
October 16, 1877, may actually be, "get this" Virginia Ellen Swisher.
Virginia Ellen Swisher married Merritt Henry Cave, and died on November 27,
1920. But she was known as "Jeannie". All the legal documents I have found
had Jenny or Jennie on them, so this turned me for a flip at first. However,
in the material is that this Jeannie was in the Zeigfield Follies in 1920.
She managed some apartments, made beautiful paper flowers and loved to dance
and have fun. She had sparkley devilish eyes. Was blinded by glaucoma and
died of cancer. Her second husband's name was Joseph Cooper. (Remember, I
found her daughter listing her mom's name as Jennie Cooper on her marriage
license in 1908?). They had one daughter, Katie Ellen
Edmundson-Bauer-Chrisman-Eggelstone born 5/17/1899 in Seymour Missouri.
(Where the heck is Seymour Missouri? If that is where Jennie's daughter was
born, they maybe that is where she is buried?; since I can't find her after
three years of looking)
Now, for those of you who have been aggressively helping me; Do you think
that is a big enough curve ball in genealogy research?
Well, if that isn't enough for ya!!!!! Maybe this is. On several
documents, as previously stated, I have found this Jeannie Swisher as being
born in Virginia, Missouri, Clayton Illinois, and now.... guess what, this
information states she is born in.... County Cork Ireland... But her
parents, Absolom S. Swisher and Sarah E. Spicer resided in Adams County
Illinois near Kellerville, where they are now buried on the family farm in a
Cemetery known as the Amen Cemetery.
That said, as I am pulling my hair out of my head.... here. Oh, well, if
nothing else, if she really was in the Zeigfield Follies in 1920, maybe there
is in fact a photo of here somewhere out there afterall.
Thomas W. Rogers
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