EDWARDS, JODY AND SUSIE

EDWARDS, JODY AND SUSIE (BUTTERBEANS AND SUSIE). Vaudeville entertainers (org. 1914 at Macon, Georgia; fl. 1914-1960s). Jody Edwards (19 July 1895 in Georgia; 28 October 1967 in Chicago, Illinois) and Susie Hawthorne (1896? in Pensacola, Florida; 5 December 1963 in Chicago, Illinois) formed a vaudeville act about 1914 and began their career together at the Douglass Theatre in Macon, Georgia. According to the black press, they were married on 15 May 1917 on the stage of the Standard...