Hello, Spelunkers! I hope Tom is onto something about his branch.
Be careful about the dates. If born in 1856 Jennie may been at the
Follies in 1920, but probably not in the Follies. If she died in
1920, there should be a death certificate with patents names and
birthplaces. Ed Troutman
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Originally From: Judy Gyllenskog <jsavgyll(a)connpoint.net>
Subject: Re: [CAVE] re: New Info/(Jennie E./Virginia Ellen Swisher,
Cave, Cooper
Date: 02/28/2002 05:28pm
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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