Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 200, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 August 1913 — Largest Girl in Fountain County Died Monday. [ARTICLE]

Largest Girl in Fountain County Died Monday.

Ufa Frances Cunningham, the 14-year-old daughter of the late Jasper Cunningham, of Jackson township, died .Monday afternoon after an illness of several months. - The girl was unusually large and since infancy her growth had been abnormal. When 10 years old she weighed 275 pounds and constantly continued to gain in weight. During her recent illness she increased in weight at the rate of nearly a pound a day and at the time of her death she weighed 416 pounds. Her case baffled the physicians, who say it was one of the most remarkable they ever witnessed. A specially built coffin was ordered in.which to bury her. The funeral was held Wednesday afternoon at the Cunningham home near Wallace. The late Jasper Cunningham, the father of the girl, was one of the wealthiest men in Jackson township, and was noted for his size. He was six feet tall and weighed 425 pounds at the time of his death. The mother of the girl is also a very large woman but a younger son, Mitchell, is normal hi every respect.