Ella Ewing

Ella Kate Ewing was a Missouri woman considered the worlds tallest female of her era. She would use her great height to earn a living as a sideshow attraction, popularly known as The Missouri Giantess.

Ella Ewing was born in La Grange, Missouri, the only child of Benjamin F. and Anna Eliza Ewing. While a toddler, Ellas family moved to the small Scotland County community of Rainbow, southeast of Gorin, Missouri. She was of normal size while a baby and young child, with the first signs of any abnormality appearing shortly after her seventh birthday. At age fourteen she towered over not only other children, but her parents and other adults, measuring 6160feetinches. The people of the Rainbow and Gorin area were used to her fast growth and met it with compassion however, in 1885 Ewing learned that would not always be the case in the world at large. Asked to read the Declaration of Independence at a Julycelebration in Wyaconda, Missouri, Ewing was met with shocked gasps, snickers and laughter when she stood to read. Led away in tears, the incident would have a profound effect on her life.

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