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Date Posted: Sun, August 18 2019, 18:40:21
JANE SHERMAN was a remarkable woman who overcame tragedy and obstacles in life to become a great success. She deserves more than just a few lines of biographical information.
I have 95% confidence that her birth was 09 November 1900 in Virginia, Nebraska.
http://www.lordheath.com/menu1_1717.html
Real name: Elva Jane Sherman (not MALOUF).
Jane's parents, SMITH RHEA SHERMAN and MAUDE LAWSON were married in 1898. He (1873-1932) from Tecumseh, Johnson County and she (1873-1913) from Sterling,
Johnson County a few miles away. This was Maude's 2nd marriage.
https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/61335/47291_552481-00036/34658#?imageId=47291_552481-00036 Parents marriage certificate.
On April 11th, 1900 (Census), they were living in Sherman Twp (Virginia), Gage Co., NE about 30 miles from Tecumseh. They had no children yet. (Other records give Jane's birthday as 09 November.) The Dad worked for the railroad as an engine wiper. If Jane was born in Tecumseh, Johnson County, as some sources say, that would mean her Dad and pregnant mother relocated to Tecumseh during a 5 month "window of opportunity". (No birth record or newspaper birth announcement found.) See Mom's death sourced below.
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M3B3-W8T 1900 C Sherman Twp., Gage Co., NE (location of Village of Virginia).
About 1903, the family relocated to San Bernardino, CA where Jane's sister, Edith(e) (1903-????), was born. The Dad evidently had a better railroad job as a "car carpenter".
According to the 1910 Census (San Bernardino, CA), Jane was born in 1900. Her age "at last birthday" is given as 9 yrs "as of April 15, 1910", (using the November 9th date she gives for her passport application of 1918, makes her born in 1900).
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M3B3-W8Y 1910 C San Bernardino, CA. Elva Jane aged 9 and Edith aged 6.
In October 1913, Jane and Edith's Mother died suddenly and unexpectedly at age 40. The girls had gotten up for school and found her dead. The Dad was not there but in Montana, probably with his railroad job. He did not make it back for the funeral or memorial service a week later but he accompanied her body to LA for burial.
https://www.newspapers.com/image/47021822/?terms=%22MAUD%2BSHERMAN%22 1913 Oct.; Kids find Mom dead: Dad in MT.
https://www.newspapers.com/image/47022346/?terms=%22MAUD%2BSHERMAN%22 1913 Oct.: Dad accompanies body to LA for internment.
In February 1918, in LA, the 2 Sherman sisters apply for passports to "indefinitely" relocate to Australia for "residence" with their deceased Mother's sister, Mrs. Gertrude Duclos, a Canadian citizen by marriage. This is their Aunt Gertrude's (Oct.1879- ????) second marriage. The girls state that their Father is "deceased". This is an outright lie. He is living and working in LA. It may have something to do with Aunt Gertrude's sworn, nortarized letter for both sisters dated 23 Feb 1918 and included as the final page of the passport application:
".......:That she is the aunt and the legal guardian of the person and estate of Elva Sherman; that she is the sole support of said Elva Sherman; that affiant is going to Australia to there permanently reside, and it is therefore necessary that said Elva Sherman go with affiant in order that said Elva Sherman may be and remain under the proper care, custody and control of affiant, her guardian, and in order that affiant may properly support her......".
They were supposed to leave on the White Star Line from San Francisco on 26 March 1918, but it appears that they never left.
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-89X3-98KV?i=278&cc=2185145 1918 Feb: Elva's passport application first page. She works as a clerk.
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-99X3-9CGZ?i=279&cc=2185145 1918 Feb: height 5'6": born 09 Nov 1900 Virginia NE: passport pp.2 & 3.
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-89X3-98FQ?i=282&cc=2185145 1918 Feb: Aunt's sworn statement about Australia: passport final page.
My speculation is that the girls and their Aunt Gertrude were upset over the Mom's death and the Dad's absence and non-attendance at the memorial and funeral.
In September 1918, living in LA, the Dad registered for the WWI Draft. He is working for the Santa Fe RR as a car carpenter. He lists "ELVA MAY Sherman" as his "nearest relative"; both living at the same address.
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33S7-91SL-S4C?i=3993&cc=1968530 1918 Sep: Dad's WWI Draft Card: ELVA MAY is nearest relative.
In the January 1920 LA Census, Elva, an actress (19), is living with her Aunt Gertrude Lawson who is divorced and using her maiden name.
In the January 1920 LA Census, sister Edith (16), is living with her Father. She is working as a "saleslady in a candy store".
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MH74-N4D 1920 Jan. C LA: Elva (actress age 19) living with divorced Aunt using her maiden name.
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MHQQ-BZM 1920 Jan. C LA: Edith (age 16) living with Father: works as saleslady in candy store.
On 18 December 1920 LA, "ELLA MAY Sherman" (20) marries Ellis Morrison Jr.(27) with Aunt Gertrude Duclos signing as witness. "ELLA" gives her birth date as 09 Nov 1900.
She gives no profession. Other than her given name, all other personal data matches Elva Jane Sherman 100%. Her husband works as a salesman from San Francisco.
After their divorce, he re-marries and eventually has 4 more children. In 1936, he was convicted and sentenced to 18 month in prison for writing bad checks and "scamming" his lawyers out of money supposedly to pay hospital bills for his son who was hit by a streetcar and then for more money for "the funeral expenses of his son, who died"! (all false).
By the time of the 1940 LA Census, he was still in San Quentin Prison and was paroled just after "Pearl Harbor" and went to work at an Army Air Corps pilot training base. In September of 1942, he died of chronic heart failure while working as a pipe fitter at a shipyard. He was given a military burial for his honorable service in WWI.
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-893H-CVNJ?i=580&cc=1804002 1920 Dec 18: LA Marriage Certificate.
https://www.newspapers.com/image/380450277/?terms=%22ellis%2Bmorrison%22 1936 March: ex-husband Ellis Morrison conviction & sentencing.
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K9HL-ZR1 1940 Census LA: Ellis Morrison family: he in San Quentin Prison.
https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?dbid=2375&h=749830&indiv=try&o_vc=Record:OtherRecord&rhSource=5180 1942 Sep: Mil Headstone Appl.
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-L9SK-S3PM?i=2924&wc=SJ51-T38%3A285176601%2C285574901&cc=2001287 1942 Sep: Death Certificate.
On 01 March 1921 LA, daughter Betty J. Morrison (1921-1992) is born. By the time of the 1930 Long Beach, CA Census, Jane and Ellis are divorced and her daughter is living with a foster family BUT Jane must have been "bettering" herself in the 1920's because she is a "dental nurse". Even better for her is the fact that her future husband, Canadian/Syrian, John V. Malouf (1900-1970), a Dr. of Chiropractic is living right next door. They marry in 1933 and Jane is a licensed Dr. of Chiropractic by 1934. Husband John eventually becomes a lawyer as well as chiropractor. By 1939 they own their own commercial building at 919-925 Atlantic Ave. in downtown Long Beach.
He adopts her daughter, "Betty Jane" who gets married in 1939 to Wallace Rodecker, a movie theater usher from Long Beach who eventually (1949) earns a law degree becomes a US Air Force bomber pilot with 52 bombing missions over North Korea (1952). One more tragedy befalls Jane in 1955 when her son-in-law, Wallace is killed when the reconnaissance bomber he is piloting over Germany crashes. He leaves behind his wife and 3 small children.
By the time of the 1940 Long Beach Census, Jane Malouf had 3 years of college and her husband John had 5 years. Both were still practicing chiropractic medicine as of the 1968 Long Beach City Directory.
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VGSP-4HH 1921 March 1: birth record of daughter, Betty J. Morrison.
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XCJV-V6D 1930 Census Long Beach: dental nurse: divorced: lives next door to Malouf.
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XCJP-4VC 1930 Census Long Beach: daughter with Adams foster family.
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QSQ-G93H-W9JG-9?i=2064&cc=1804002 1933 Sep: Long Beach Marriage Cert. to Malouf.
https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/2469/3191920/210373476 1939 Long Bch City Dir: own building: he a lawyer: both chiropractors.
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K96B-KRJ 1940 Census Long Beach.
https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/2469/31461_217760-00841/1384520808 1968 Long Bch City Dir: both chiropractors in Malouf Building.
https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/1139/miusa1942a_066035-00325/32593 1955 May: death of son-in-law Wallace Rodecker.
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