Jennie Yeamans (born Eugenia Marguerite Yeamans; 1862 – 28 November 1906) was a child actress and singer popular in the 1870s and 1880s, and later a famous adult singer and actress. She was the younger sister of early silent film character actress

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and had another sister, Emily Yeamans, who died young. Of the three, Jennie was the most famous and successful right up to her death. Their mother was

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(1835–1912), a character actress in the Victorian era stage. Her father was Edward Yeamans (died 1866 or 1868), a circus clown. The Yeamans family came from Australia and toured China, Japan and Java in traveling shows before arriving in San Francisco in 1865. After arriving in America, Edward Yeamans died in 1866 or 1868. As an adult, Jennie appeared in a popular stage melodramas or musicals; one musical being ''

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'' in 1890, which was later made into a 1917 silent film ''

'', starring

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.''Pictorial History of the American Theatre 1860–1985'', pg. 38 originally by Daniel Blum, revised version c. 1985 For a time Yeamans was married to impresario

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. Yeamans died of tuberculosis on 28 November 1906 at the Hotel Gerard in New York City where she and her mother Annie lived. Just before her death, Jennie and her mother Annie appeared at a benefit show in San Francisco to provide aid for survivors of the

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New York Times
29 November 1906; JENNIE YEAMANS DEAD.;Actress and Singer Popular a Decade Ago a Victim of Tuberculosis.
PDF version of 1906 NY Times obituary

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*Jennie Yeamans at IBDb.com; some roles played by Jennie Yeamans as
child
...and as a
adult portraits of Jennie Yeamans
(New York Public Library, Billy Rose Collection) {{DEFAULTSORT:Yeamans, Jennie 1862 births 1906 deaths Australian child actresses Australian stage actresses 20th-century deaths from tuberculosis Tuberculosis deaths in New York (state) 19th-century Australian actresses Actresses from Sydney Australian emigrants to the United States Actresses from New York City Date of birth unknown