
Conjoined twins Millie and Christine McKoy were born enslaved in North Carolina in 1851 and later became internationally known performers billed as the “Two-Headed Nightingale.” Their shared grave in Welches Creek Cemetery bears an inscription describing “two hearts that beat as one.” Cemetery coordinates: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q68101741
Filed under weird history: real events too strange to have made the textbook.
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Source: Roadside America

