Evelyn Sherman(1882-1974)

Evelyn Sherman was born 1882 in Nashua,Iowa to Dana and Carrie Sherman Spear. Her parents were from Vermont & Massachusettes and lived in Iowa. Evelyn was born Eva Mae Spear and according to the 1900 U.S. census was still living at home but by 1910 she had married a Richard Allison and become a silent film actress.She made films in NYC until moving to California about 1922 where she remained for the rest of her career.She was listed in the various almanacs of Motion Picture actresses but nothing after 1937 when her name disappears from all the directories. Her daughter wrote me her mothers life was "rich one year,starving the next",a very hard life".Her granddaughter told me Evelyn was a fiesty woman who turned down work she should have accepted and regretted it later. Evelyn died in Glendale in 1974.Her only daughter Jane(1907-2001) flirted with acting very briefly and her granddaughter is a hypnotherapist in California.