Mr. and Mrs. C. Howard Sweatt have announced the engagement and approaching marriage of their daughter, Miss Cynthia Blythe Sweatt, to Lieut. Benjamin Franklin Schemmer, U.S.A., son of Mr. and Mrs. Clinton Henry Schemmer of Washington and New York. The wedding will take place on Feb. 14.

The prospective bride is a junior at Florida State University at Tallahassee. Her fiancé was graduated in 1946 from the Choir School of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York; Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass., in 1950, and the United States Military Academy in 1954. He is on temporary duty at Fort Benning, Ga.

Source - New York Times - Jan 20, 1955

Source - Virginia, Death Records, 1912-2014

Cynthia Blythe Schemmer, 40, a prize-winning artist and a 1966 docent at the National Collection of Fine Arts, died Wednesday of diabetes neuritis at her home in Reston after several weeks of hospitalization.

A native of Nashville, Tenn., she studied fine arts at Florida State University where she was a member of Pi Beta Phi and was elected Miss Florida State University in 1955.

Mrs. Schemmer studied at George Washington University, the Corcoran Gallery and at the University of Karlsruhe in Germany.

Her paintings won prizes in Florida, Germany, and at the Monterey, Calif., Arts Festival. Mrs. Schemmer also had designed magazine covers for Look magazine and Armed Forces Journal.

Mrs. Schemmer is survived by her husband, Benjamin F., and a son, Clinton Howard, both of the home; her parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. Howard Sweatt of Eustis, Fla., and a sister, Eleanor Harsh, of Huntsville, Ala.

Source - The Washington Post - Jun 29, 1974