Fanny Mills

Fanny Mills (August 30, 1860 – May 3, 1899), known under the stage name as the "Ohio Big Foot Girl", was a British-American woman who achieved fame as an entertainment attraction in dime museums throughout the 1880s. Mills suffered from the rare disease called Milroy's disease that caused her lower limbs to grow to enormous size.

Early life and family Fannie (née) Mills was born in Sussex, England to George and Sarah (née Ansel) Mills on August 30, 1860; although an article in the July 26, 1885 New York Times reported that Fannie wore size 29 shoes. Her feet appeared much larger due in part to Mills' small stature. She weighed just a little over 100 pounds as an adult; approximately 115 pounds. as "that girl from Ohio" with the "biggest feet on Earth". in Perkins, Erie, Ohio at age 39. The cause of death listed on her interment card was "abscess". She is buried in Oakland Cemetery in Sandusky, Ohio next to her husband, William, who died of cancer in 1904, age 69. The Follett House Museum in Sandusky, Ohio currently displays the lasts that were used to fashion Mills' shoes.