She claimed to be 23 years old in this photo postcard dated 1865.
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(edited)
Death of a Giantess.
The agent of Miss Kate Keathley (Keithley), the Missouri giantess, was telegraphed at this city Wednesday morning to the effect that Miss K. died on Saturday last, at her home, about twenty-five miles from St. Louis.
She had just returned from a trip to Omaha.
Many people all over the country will remember Miss Keathley, probably the heaviest woman ever exhibited.
She weighed 812 pounds.
Her education was much better than is usually possessed by persons of her class and she was able to converse intelligently and agreeably with her visitors.
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Cleveland Ohio Herald, July 23rd.
(Source: Ancestry.com from the New York Times July 25th, 1868)
This would make her death date July 18th, 1868.
(obit from Jana)
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(edited)
Death of a Giantess.
The agent of Miss Kate Keathley (Keithley), the Missouri giantess, was telegraphed at this city Wednesday morning to the effect that Miss K. died on Saturday last, at her home, about twenty-five miles from St. Louis.
She had just returned from a trip to Omaha.
Many people all over the country will remember Miss Keathley, probably the heaviest woman ever exhibited.
She weighed 812 pounds.
Her education was much better than is usually possessed by persons of her class and she was able to converse intelligently and agreeably with her visitors.
===
Cleveland Ohio Herald, July 23rd.
(Source: Ancestry.com from the New York Times July 25th, 1868)
This would make her death date July 18th, 1868.
(obit from Jana)
She claimed to be 23 years old in this photo postcard dated 1865.
===
(edited)
Death of a Giantess.
The agent of Miss Kate Keathley (Keithley), the Missouri giantess, was telegraphed at this city Wednesday morning to the effect that Miss K. died on Saturday last, at her home, about twenty-five miles from St. Louis.
She had just returned from a trip to Omaha.
Many people all over the country will remember Miss Keathley, probably the heaviest woman ever exhibited.
She weighed 812 pounds.
Her education was much better than is usually possessed by persons of her class and she was able to converse intelligently and agreeably with her visitors.
===
Cleveland Ohio Herald, July 23rd.
(Source: Ancestry.com from the New York Times July 25th, 1868)
This would make her death date July 18th, 1868.
(obit from Jana)
===
(edited)
Death of a Giantess.
The agent of Miss Kate Keathley (Keithley), the Missouri giantess, was telegraphed at this city Wednesday morning to the effect that Miss K. died on Saturday last, at her home, about twenty-five miles from St. Louis.
She had just returned from a trip to Omaha.
Many people all over the country will remember Miss Keathley, probably the heaviest woman ever exhibited.
She weighed 812 pounds.
Her education was much better than is usually possessed by persons of her class and she was able to converse intelligently and agreeably with her visitors.
===
Cleveland Ohio Herald, July 23rd.
(Source: Ancestry.com from the New York Times July 25th, 1868)
This would make her death date July 18th, 1868.
(obit from Jana)
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