Young Hollywood Hall of Fame: Child Stars & Teen Idols

STAGE NAME: EVA PROUT / EVEBELLE PROUT

BIRTH NAME: Evebelle Ross Prout     DOB: October 9, 1894     BIRTH PLACE: Zanesville, OH
DOD: November 1980     PLACE OF DEATH: Coral Gables, FL     CAUSE OF DEATH: N/A
CEMETERY: N/A

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SPECIAL SKILLS: Actress, Vocalist, Dancer
MEMORABILIA / ENDORSEMENTS: TBA

EDUCATION:
1903-1907: Sullivant School, Columbus, OH (3rd Grade thru 6th Grade)
1907-1909: Douglas School, Columbus, OH (7th Grade thru 8th Grade)

OTHER OCCUPATIONS: Vaudeville

FAMILY
PARENTS MARRIED: November 30, 1880 in Zanesville, OH (until his death)

FATHER: Richard Cincinnatus Prout     DOB: July 18, 1851     BIRTH PLACE: Cincinnati, OH
DOD: September 18, 1896     PLACE OF DEATH: Zanesville, OH     CAUSE OF DEATH: N/A
OCCUPATION: N/A

MOTHER MAIDEN NAME: Belle Brandon Brown     DOB: August 10, 1858 or 1859     BIRTH PLACE: N/A
DOD: July 8, 1935     PLACE OF DEATH: Cincinnati, OH     CAUSE OF DEATH: died following a lingering illness of complications
CEMETERY: Greenwood Cemetery
OCCUPATION: Between 1902-1908, Belle ran a boarding house at State Street, Columbus, OH.

BELLE REMARRIED: c1898
2nd HUSBAND: Frank Whitmer Barks     DOB: c1875     BIRTH PLACE: Cincinnati, OH

SIBLINGS: (4)

SISTER: Harriet Elizabeth Prout     DOB: March 1, 1881     PLACE OF BIRTH: Newark, OH
DOD: June 25, 1912     PLACE OF DEATH: East Liverpool, OH     CAUSE OF DEATH: N/A
Married: John Howard Sloan c1901 in Columbus, OH

BROTHER: Richard Kyle Prout     DOB: January 9, 1887     PLACE OF BIRTH: Newark, OH
DOD: February 18, 1887     PLACE OF DEATH: Ohio     CAUSE OF DEATH: Whooping Cough

SISTER: Marie Kyle Prout     DOB: August 30, 1892     PLACE OF BIRTH: Zanesville, OH
DOD: January 28, 1966     PLACE OF DEATH: Indianapolis, IN     CAUSE OF DEATH: N/A
Married: James Morton Judkins March 20, 1927

HALF BROTHER: Frank H. Barks     DOB: 1900 or 1901     PLACE OF BIRTH: Ohio
DOD: N/A     PLACE OF DEATH: N/A     CAUSE OF DEATH: N/A

MARRIAGE
MARRIED: April 28, 1924 in Muskingum, OH
SPOUSE: Earnest Bailey Geiger     DOB: February 4, 1900     BIRTH PLACE: Zanesville, OH
DOD: before 1966     PLACE OF DEATH: N/A     CAUSE OF DEATH: N/A
OCCUPATION: Eva's piano accompanist & dancing partner in Vaudeville

1939: They were retired from show business and moved from Zanesville, OH to Coral Gables, FL.
DIVORCED: October 9, 1946 (Miami, FL final decree of divorce filed)

CHILDREN: (0)

SPECIAL THANKS TO KEN PROUT FOR CONTRIBUTING INFORMATION!