Jennie Yeamans

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.

Their mother was Annie Yeamans (1835–1912), a character actress in the Victorian era stage.

The Yeamans family came from Australia and toured China, Japan and Java in traveling shows before arriving in San Francisco in 1865.

[citation needed] As an adult, Jennie appeared in a popular stage melodramas or musicals; one musical being Blue Jeans in 1890, which was later made into a 1917 silent film Blue Jeans, starring Viola Dana.

[3] Yeamans died of tuberculosis on 28 November 1906 at the Hotel Gerard in New York City where she and her mother Annie lived.