Tom, just located Seymour, Missouri on map. It is located southeast of Springfield, Greene Co., Missouri. Hope that helps. Judy > From: Travelback4u@aol.com > Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 19:27:28 EST > To: CAVE-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: [CAVE] re: New Info/(Jennie E./Virginia Ellen Swisher, Cave, Cooper > Resent-From: CAVE-L@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 > > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go > to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >