She was an American sideshow performer.

At age 19 and about 5ft tall, she got married to a doctor named “James Clinton Bicknell”.

See wedding photo of Myrtle and Clinton below.

The couple had five children together (4 girls and 1 boy).

It was alleged that three of her children were born from one set of her reproductive organs and two were born from the other.

Josephine Myrtle Corbin died on 6th of May 1928 at the age of 59 after suffering from a streptococcal skin infection which there was no treatment for in the 1920s.

After her death, physicians and showmen were willing to pay a lot of money for her dead body but the parents rejected their offers.

The family members of Josephine Myrtle watched her grave for days until the concrete was dried enough to avoid their daughter’s corpse being stolen by grave thieves.

See other photos of Josephine Myrtle Corbin below.

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