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Collection: MILLIE-CHRXSTINE . COLLECTION
Columbus County
1855-1974
PC, 266.1
ALSO OVERSIZE PC. 266
Physical Description: 22 items; newspaper clippings, advertising broadsides
and circular, photographs, booklet, letter, notes, magazine articles.
Acquisition: Donated by Bertram Millar,
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• , New York City,
March 23, 1948. Newspaper clipping, 2 magazine articles, and a booklet
added later by Archives staff. Letter from Lexington [Kentucky] in 1859
describing the twins, then exhibiting there, given by the Friends of the
Archives, 2001.
Description: Millie-Christine McKoy (1851-1912) were children of slave
parents Jacob and Monemia [McKoy] owned by Jabez McKoy of Columbus
County.. The twins were united "by their backbones. .. .the band of union
is between 16 and 17 inches in circumference, involving at least the
bones of the sacrum and coccyx immovable, and all probability uniting the
sacral nerves and spinal cords, so as to constitute one individual, or
two girls with one nervous system.
In 1852 the ten-month old twins were sold to John C. Pervis [?Purvis]
of Chesterfield District, S. C. for $1,000 with Jabez McKoy retaining
rights to one-fourth of exhibition proceeds and offering to permit the
mother to travel with the twins. If the twins were sold, McKoy was to
receive one-fourth the sale price and the mother was to be returned to him.
In 1853, for $200, McKoy relinquished all rights to exhibition proceeds. ^
In this collection are newspaper clippings and advertisements recount¬
ing a Prof. W. J. L. Millar's exhibitions of Millie-Christine from mid -1855
when he found them in Boston, purchased them from a "spotted woman," ex¬
hibited them in Canada, and sailed for Liverpool on January 1, 1855.
Dr. John Lizars, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, quoted in advertising
broadside, January 19, 1857.
'Columbus County Deeds, Book K, 476; Book L, 138-139.
