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 ------------------ Reply Separator -------------------- Originally From: Judy Gyllenskog <jsavgyll@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@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 > ============================== 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