The daughter of the landlord of The Swan public house at Walton-on-Thames. The composer Jerome Kern stopped at the pub while on a Thames river trip and fell in love with her. They married in Walton on the 25th October 1910, and she returned to America with him.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
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