This Twin Has Been Described by Her Parents as Having a Very Short Dark Brownish Head About 4-5 Days and a Slightly Blackened Chest as Well as Being Covered by a Black Band of Light on Her Left Elbow

 171 Years Ago Today

Friday 11th of July 1851
Siamese twins Millie and Christine McKoy aka The Carolina Twins aka The Two-Headed Nightingale aka The Eighth Wonder of the World are born in Whiteville, North Carolina, United States.

She died of malaria, shortly after she was born. This twin has been described by her parents as having a very short dark brownish head (about 4-5 days) and a slightly blackened chest, as well as being covered by a black band of light on her left elbow. Her face is pale, with a smooth face and a dark underpinnament on the corner of the forehead that sometimes looks blackish with light brown markings. The mother, Elizabeth McDowell, gave the name of these twins back in 1851 or 1851-53, as did Mrs. McKoy's sister Lillian McDowell (now the granddaughter of Edward McDowell/Lillian Murray). These are the only three twins, one young, the other young, named Elizabeth. The father, Ernest McKoy, was a Methodist minister who married Mary Elizabeth, a member of the Methodist Church. While still alive, Ernest had been baptized. Mary Elizabeth's mother, Martha Johnston was a Presbyterian minister and her father was an early Methodist minister. Ernest McKoy died of malaria in June 1853, just three months after his death. She was twenty-4 years of age in March of 1853.