Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 September 1881 — A Georgia Family of Dwarfs. [ARTICLE]

A Georgia Family of Dwarfs.

Columbus Enquirer. Yesterday quite an unusual sight, and one very attractive to the little street gamins, was presented in our city. It was two men and one boy, who by their difference in size formed a rather peculiar and comical looking trio. The first suspicion that something out of the ordinary routine was going on was caused by a crowd of “baud wagon boys” dodging in and out of the walk as they hurried up Broad street. The next moment a large man fully six feet in height, hove in sight. .There was nothing peculiar about his appearance, and we were at loss for a time to determine the cause of the amusement of the boys. Directly behind the man came another, who appeared to be not hair as tall as his companion. Then came a little boy seemingly about two feet in height, but in form was a miniature of our High Sheriff. The two latter seemed accustomed to the stares and rude, unbecoming laugh of the crowds, and passed them with an air of indifference that would do credit to Tom Thumb. The last two are father and sod, and belong to the dwarfish family of Troup county. The father, Mr. F. M. Darnell, lives a few miles above West Point, on the river, is 49 years of age, and is only four feet and four inches high. He has four children, two of whom (boys) inherit their father’s imperfect stature. One i 4 12 years old, and his stature is thirty-one inches; the other 9, and measures thirty-three inches in height. The eldest of these two children is afflicted with malformation and disease of the spine. The mother is five feet high, and the other children are of the ordinary height